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Kim Kardashian Talks Challenges Of Single Motherhood: ‘There Are Nights I Cry Myself To Sleep’

<p><strong>Kim Kardashian<&sol;strong> might be a multi-millionaire entrepreneur and budding lawyer&comma; but her status doesn&&num;8217&semi;t seem to exempt her from <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;watch-tyler-lepley-praises-miracle-watts-postpartum-body-thats-all-mine-right-there&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">the challenges<&sol;a> of being a single parent&period; The arguably most famous Kardashian got candid about her daily mama routines <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;3I482TBLEzc" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">while interviewing<&sol;a> on the <em>Jay Shetty Podcast<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She explained that her morning workout before her kids wake up keeps her sane&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;As soon as everyone starts to get up for school&comma; the madness happens and it&&num;8217&semi;s about two hours of madness&period; From getting four kids ready in the morning&&num;8211&semi;fed&comma; out the door&comma; to school&period; I drop &lbrack;them off at&rsqb; school every day&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Kimberly said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cf8-o3wuzZj" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kim says she gets about 20 minutes of &&num;8220&semi;alone time&&num;8221&semi; while driving home from drop-off&&num;8211&semi;music blasting and no phone calls&period; The motherhood &&num;8220&semi;madness&&num;8221&semi; starts again in the evening after a full &&num;8220&semi;committed and focused&&num;8221&semi; work day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;And then the madness of bath time&comma; bedtime&comma; dinner time&&num;8230&semi;and once four babies are asleep and I just cherish that time at night when everyone&&num;8217&semi;s asleep&comma; and I can watch whatever show I want and just have some alone time&period; So&comma; I do take the time for myself&period; I think it&&num;8217&semi;s very important&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Kim and <strong>Kanye West&comma; <&sol;strong>also known as Ye&comma; welcomed four children&&num;8211&semi;North&comma; Saint&comma; Chicago&comma; and Pslam&&num;8211&semi;during their six-year marriage&period; In November&comma; the former couple reportedly <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kim-kardashian-and-ye-finalize-divorce-with-200k-monthly-in-child-support-and-shared-custody&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">settled their divorce<&sol;a> after drawn-out proceedings&comma; online tussles&comma; and romances by both parties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kanye-west-allegedly-showed-ex-staffers-pornography-and-explicit-kim-kardashian-videos&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Kanye West Allegedly Showed Ex-Staffers Pornography And Explicit Kim Kardashian Videos<&sol;a><&sol;h5>&NewLine;<p>Ultimately&comma; Ye agreed to pay Kimmy &dollar;200&comma;000 monthly in child support and cover 50 percent of their medical&comma; educational&comma; and security costs&period; The artist foots these bills&comma; despite their shared physical and legal custody of the children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Cq8fzbrJjdJ" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kim Kardashian Says &&num;8216&semi;Parenting&&num;8217&semi; And &&num;8216&semi;Family Dynamics&&num;8217&semi; Can Be &&num;8216&semi;So Hard&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The conversation <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;exclusive-video-kyla-pratt-speaks-about-maintaining-her-privacy-famous-role-she-didnt-get-parenting&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">about parenting<&sol;a> happened last than five minutes into the interview&period; About three-and-a-half minutes in&comma; Kardashian admitted that she &&num;8220&semi;shows all &lbrack;her&rsqb; faces&&num;8221&semi; but believes people &&num;8220&semi;pick and choose&&num;8221&semi; what they want to take&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nonetheless&comma; she expressed the importance of taking every opportunity to &&num;8220&semi;express yourself in a more meaningful way&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;So I always love to share my tips&comma; and anything I&&num;8217&semi;ve learned along the way &&num;8217&semi;cause God knows it is not easy like parenting is so hard&period; Family dynamics&comma; relationships&comma; it is so hard&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Kim then pivoted&comma; as prompted by the host&comma; to speak on maintaining family relationships&comma; despite difficulties or temporary disagreements&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CohyTM4Jetv" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A little less than halfway through&comma; Kim highlighted what she imagined parenting would be versus what it now is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Everyone says the days are long and the years are short&comma; and that couldn&&num;8217&semi;t be like a more true statement&period; So like&comma; when you&&num;8217&semi;re in it&comma; especially when they&&num;8217&semi;re babies and you&&num;8217&semi;re feeding and there&&num;8217&semi;s madness going on&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s like full madness&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s the best chaos though&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Kim jumped back to her morning routines with the kids&&num;8211&semi;from combing the girls&&num;8217&semi; hair&comma; putting shoes on&comma; and cooking&period; She emphasized how much &&num;8220&semi;madness&&num;8221&semi; goes down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s why I need my workout in the morning&comma; just to prepare for the two hours of craziness&period; I&&num;8217&semi;d say parenting is the thing that&&num;8217&semi;s taught me the most about myself&period; It has been the most challenging thing&comma; there are nights I cry myself to sleep like &&num;8216&semi;what just happened&&num;8217&semi; with all the moods and the personalities&period; Sometimes they&&num;8217&semi;re fighting and there&&num;8217&semi;s no one there&&num;8230&semi;like it&&num;8217&semi;s me to play good cop and bad cop&comma; so that&&num;8217&semi;s definately a challenge&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"Csg6R0OpHD5" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kardashian says something she is working on is being &&num;8220&semi;firmer&period;&&num;8221&semi; She added that nothing&comma; not owning a home or stable finances&comma; can ever prepare you for being a parent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t care how long you wait&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t care what you&&num;8217&semi;re waiting for&comma; you are never prepared&comma; but you will figure it out&period; And it will make you so proud of yourself that you figured it out and that you got through the day&period; And sometimes it&&num;8217&semi;s night where we are going hour by hour to see if we&&num;8217&semi;re foing to survive&comma; night by night&period; If a tantrum comes in&comma; oh my God&comma; your life is completely upside down&comma; but it teaches you so much more about yourself that I think anyone&comma; any parent could&&num;8217&semi;ve ever anticipated&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Kardashian called parenting the &&num;8220&semi;most challenging&comma; rewarding job on this planet&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"3I482TBLEzc" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" dock&equals;"&num;dock-slot"><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this month&comma; the mother of four enjoyed one of the pleasures of parenthood&&num;8211&semi;celebrating her little one&&num;8217&semi;s birthday&period; Kim hosted a firefighter-themed birthday party for Pslam&&num;8217&semi;s fourth birthday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CsCIuFlP1OC" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Ye&&num;8211&semi;who has been keeping a low profile&&num;8211&semi;has been spotted out with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;reel&sol;CrSJ9TaLDgz&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;web&lowbar;copy&lowbar;link&amp&semi;igshid&equals;MzRlODBiNWFlZA&equals;&equals;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">his new wife<&sol;a>&comma; <strong>Bianca Censori&comma;<&sol;strong> several times in the last few weeks&period; Over the weekend&comma; a video of Bianca speaking to a flirtatious stranger went viral&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CsebwcsuNB8" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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