Kim Kardashian may enjoy making TikTok videos with her daughter North West, but that doesn’t mean she forgets that she’s a parent first and foremost.
The reality star, 42, is addressing why she deleted one of 10-year-old North’s TikToks in an interview.
“As soon as I saw the words, I was like, ‘Oh no, we’re taking this down,’ ” The Kardashians star told TIME magazine in a cover story published on Tuesday. “I saw on the internet [people saying], ‘Kanye [West] was right,’ and maybe he was in that instance.”
Back in March, North — who is a big fan of Ice Spice — dressed up as the rapper, 23, and lip-synced a few of the lyrics to her and PinkPantheress’ song “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2.” But people were quick to criticize the clip, questioning the age-appropriateness of the words that North was singing along to.
Some even pointed to a 2022 podcast interview in which the tween’s dad, Kanye West, expressed his disapproval of his daughter posting on the popular video platform. “My children ain’t going to be on TikTok without my permission,” the rapper, 46, told Hollywood Unlocked’s Jason Lee.
While Kardashian and her ex-husband publically disagreed when it came to their kids’ social media use, the SKIMS mogul still continues to defend her choice to allow North to use TikTok as an outlet to express her creativity. “She loves making slime videos and doing her little hair tutorials, and I will fight for her to be creative,” she told TIME.
She still continues to defend her choice to allow North to use TikTok as an outlet to express her creativity. “She loves making slime videos and doing her little hair tutorials, and I will fight for her to be creative,” she told TIME.
In December, while appearing on Gwyneth Paltrow’s The goop podcast, Kardashian spoke at length about how much North loves making videos and showing off her artistic skills.
“The way that she is so creative, the way that she loves to do TikTok and do these videos, and she’ll take my phone and do skincare stuff,” she said. “She loves special effects makeup, so she’ll be doing scars and faces and bullet wounds. She takes classes on it, and that’s what she loves to do so she loves to show it.”
As her daughter’s TikTok following continues to increase, the mom of four has a few firm rules that her daughter must follow.
“I have made a rule with their dad about it — he’s not happy about that. I respect that. But it can only be on my phone … And it’s not something where she can scroll and look at things,” she told goop, adding, “We don’t do comments.”
While TikTok has worked for the family, Kardashian said that they didn’t have the same experience with Instagram when North wanted to make an account for the family’s dogs.
“It was just too much access,” the SKKN BY KIM founder explained. “That only lasted like two days.”
“I found a groove with her TikTok, as long as it’s me and her together and I’m there,” she added. “That works for now. But it’s a crazy world, I don’t deny that.”
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