Kimye is kaput: how Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s romance went from fairy tale love story to Hollywood horror
- The celebrity power couple’s marriage is officially ending: the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star filed for divorce from the Gold Digger rapper last week
- Both once met with Donald Trump, boast millions of followers on Instagram and have amassed considerable wealth – him with Yeezy, her with Kim K branded products
The couple began dating in 2012 and had their first child in 2013. West proposed later that year using the giant screen at the empty waterfront ballpark of the San Francisco Giants, and the two married May 24, 2014, in a ceremony at a Renaissance fortress in Florence, Italy.
It was the first marriage for West, 43, and the third for Kardashian, 40. While the union wasn’t long, it outlasted the predictions of many cynics who thought doom was inevitable given the two oversized personalities, West’s well-known volatility and the fact that Kardashian’s previous marriage, to former NBA player Kris Humphries, was fleetingly brief.
Kardashian’s first marriage, at age 19 in 2000, to music producer Damon Thomas lasted until 2004, and in 2011 she married Humphries in a heavily hyped wedding that was televised in a two-part special on KUWTK.
She filed for divorce less than three months later, though was still legally married in 2012 when she and West, a friend for years who had paid tribute to her in his songs, became a couple, and she became pregnant.