![]() ![]() And no matter how outlandish or garish their exchanges of affection were, they seemed grounded in real love worth rooting for.īut as much as Kanye wanted Kim, he knew he wanted to marry a woman who could hold her own in the power-couple equation, one who had her own capital and resources, as he told Details in 2009: “I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. Kanye wanted to “dip Kim’s ass in gold.” And since every moment of their courtship was catalogued online, we saw all the ways they fawned over each other - like when Kanye trapped Kenny G in a rose-strewn room to sing a Valentine’s Day serenade to Kim. Kim thought Kanye was an artistic genius. In the beginning, theirs was a lavish, baroque, well-documented show of adoration. No matter how you felt about the separate ingredients, the combination felt completely right and true. It was relatable, even if the pot was a hypertalented, egotistical provocateur and the lid was a member of America’s burgeoning reality-TV dynasty and an Instagram savant. ![]() It was strangely reassuring to see two people who had wrestled with their flawed pasts so visibly realize they were a pot and a lid. They earned our infatuation because they seemed preternaturally well suited for each other. Unlike TomKat, Brangelina, and Bennifer, the appeal of Kimye was simple it wasn’t Scientology, or the thrill of a relationship possibly (probably) born of adultery, or matching habanero-orange spray tans that made them captivating. I felt like when we first got together, it was like a Romeo-and-Juliet kind of thing.” They had been dating only a year when Kanye gave an interview to Hot 97 declaring the immensity of their relationship, expressing to host Angie Martinez that they had a big meant-to-be type of union: “I felt like our love story is like a love story for the ages. Maybe it was because he kept mispronouncing her name and the universe only manifests what you ask for clearly, but it took almost a decade’s worth of other relationships and Kanye’s steady, increasing persistence - which included dropping little lyrical love crumbs in his songs - before the two of them finally got together in 2012. In the segment, he admitted to using Photoshop to insert himself into the Kardashian-Jenner Khristmas cards and emailing the images to Kim. He would see pictures of Kim on vacation with Paris Hilton and ask his friends, “What’s up with Kim Kar-dijon?” or “Kim Kardi-shawn?” “I just dreamed about being next to her,” Kanye told his future mother-in-law, Kris Jenner, on one episode of Kris, her talk show. But as the years passed, the more smitten he became, he explained later in an interview with Ryan Seacrest. Kim was married to producer Damon Thomas, though, so she and Kanye stayed squarely in the friend zone. He was recording a song with Brandy when her friend Kim came by - then in her era of smoky eyes, nude lip gloss, flat irons, and less ass. He knew in 2003, when they encountered each other for the first time. Kanye West always knew his fate, it seemed. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West in the “Bound 2” music video in 2013.
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