You might not think you have all that much in common with Kim Kardashian West, but I’m here to let you in on a little secret. When it comes to being a mum, she’s – whisper it – “winging it”, just like the rest of us.
Hard to believe, I know. Particularly when you consider that the Keeping Up With The Kardashians reality TV star, model and businesswoman is worth a reported $350m, according to Forbes.
She’s also married to rapper Kanye West – the couple have three children together: North, five, Saint, three, and Chicago, 14 months.
In December Kardashian, 38, let slip that the couple are expecting their fourth child together via a surrogate. She has also recently revealed her plan to become a lawyer in 2022, after a four-year apprenticeship.
She’s clearly super-busy, as well as being super-rich and super-successful, but it’s heartening to hear how she copes with the everyday trials of parenting – simply by crossing her fingers and hoping for the best. Preach.
Kardashian told Vogue magazine, as part of its 73 Questions video series, the answer to successful child-rearing.
“You just have to wing it,” she said. “My sisters and I are in a group chat, always getting parenting advice.”
And her husband, who was in the room while she did the interview, joked: “They don’t get advice from me — can I get on that chat, please?”
Kardashian said the biggest thing her parents taught her was that “family is everything”.
And the best part of being a mum? “When the kids tell you they love you”, reported People.
It’s strangely comforting to know that even celebrity parents are making it up as they go along. Amen to that.