Co-parenting with your mercurial ex while quietly seeing a global racing legend? For Kim Kardashian, that’s just Thursday.
Kim is out here sending one very clear message: the Kanye chapter may be dramatic, but it’s not going to be chaotic. Not publicly, anyway. And she’s doing it right as whispers about her and Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton shift from fan fiction to near-foregone conclusion.
The Moment
In a new cover-story interview with a major sneaker-and-culture magazine, published this week, Kim Kardashian gives a rare, calm update on where she stands with ex-husband Kanye West.
‘We’ll always be family,’ she says. ‘We both know that. We will be OK, and there’s so much love for our family.’ She doubles down on the point that both of them, whatever else happens, want what’s best for their four kids – North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.
This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Her comments land less than a week after entertainment reports claimed Kim and Lewis Hamilton, 41, have been quietly dating and recently took a romantic little hop from the English countryside to Paris. Think less “girls’ trip,” more “soft-launch-European-getaway.”
Meanwhile, Kanye – now married to Bianca Censori, an architect-turned-muse who’s become a fixture in his new era – has stayed publicly silent on the Hamilton chatter. No songs, no posts, no rants. For him, that’s practically meditative silence.
The Take
Kim’s doing something very specific here: she’s de-escalating on purpose.
After years of extremely public Kanye meltdowns, social media tirades, and that whole Pete Davidson situation (remember the cartoons, the lyrics, the T-shirt moments?), this new tone feels almost… boring. And that is the flex.
She’s drawing a bright line between the past and the present. On her reality show last year, Kim admitted their co-parenting dynamic made her want to “snap” and that she “just can’t really engage” with certain behavior anymore. Translation for the over-40 crowd: I’m not fighting with this man in public or in front of our kids, no matter how tempting it might be.
Kim isn’t pretending the history didn’t happen. She’s just refusing to let it be the plot of every new chapter.
And the timing with Lewis Hamilton is not accidental. If you’re going to start seeing one of the most famous athletes on earth – a man with his own global brand, sponsors, and carefully managed image – you cannot be simultaneously starring in a nonstop ex-husband crisis.
So Kim’s trying to turn what used to be a wildfire into a gas fireplace: still hot, but controlled and behind glass. “We’ll always be family” is polite, sanitized, and safe. It’s not poetry. It’s strategy.
For a lot of women – especially those 40+ who’ve dealt with divorce, blended families, or high-conflict exes – this will ring familiar. You don’t need your ex to be your best friend. You just need him to be predictable enough that your new life (and, in Kim’s case, your new boyfriend who drives cars at 200 mph) isn’t collateral damage.
Receipts
Confirmed:
- Kim Kardashian, 45, says of Kanye West, 48: ‘We’ll always be family… We will be OK, and there’s so much love for our family,’ in a February 2026 magazine cover story tied to her latest brand collaboration.
- She states that both she and Kanye want what’s best for their four children: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.
- Kim and Kanye began dating in 2012 and married in Italy in 2014; she filed for divorce in February 2021, and the divorce was finalized in late 2022.
- Kanye legally married Bianca Censori in December 2022, according to publicly reported records and coverage at the time.
- Kim has previously spoken on a popular podcast about crying over the difficulties of co-parenting with Kanye and later said on her own reality series in 2025 that their dynamic was so hard it made her feel like she might “snap” if she kept engaging.
- In a 2025 interview, she said Kanye’s public taunting of her then-boyfriend Pete Davidson felt unfair to him and made her sad.
Reported / Not Officially Confirmed By Them:
- Multiple entertainment reports claim Kim and Lewis Hamilton are quietly dating and recently spent time together traveling from the Cotswolds to Paris. Neither Kim nor Lewis has publicly confirmed the relationship.
- Their time together has been described as a romantic getaway by unnamed sources, not on-the-record statements.
- Kanye has not publicly commented on Kim’s reported relationship with Hamilton as of the latest coverage.
Sources: February 2026 Kim Kardashian cover story in a sneaker-and-culture magazine; February 6, 2026, reporting from a New York-based celebrity news section summarizing the interview and the Lewis Hamilton dating reports; prior on-air and streaming appearances by Kim discussing co-parenting and her post-divorce relationships (2022-2025).
Backstory (For the Casual Reader)
If you’ve only half-watched this saga from the sidelines, here’s the quick rewind.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were one of the defining celebrity couples of the 2010s – music, fashion, four kids, and a joint Met Gala presence that practically became its own brand. They started dating in 2012, married in a lavish Italian ceremony in 2014, and then spent the next several years swinging between power-couple glamour and very public turbulence.
By 2021, Kim filed for divorce after a string of Kanye controversies, including erratic social media behavior and public oversharing about their marriage and kids. The divorce was finalized in 2022. Not long after, Kanye married Bianca Censori, while Kim cautiously re-entered the dating pool, first with comedian Pete Davidson, then being loosely linked to NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. and retired quarterback Tom Brady.
Now, the rumored man in the frame is Lewis Hamilton – seven-time Formula 1 world champion and one of the most recognizable athletes on the planet. Pairing him with Kim creates a cross-Atlantic, cross-industry power couple: reality TV royalty meets motorsport legend.
So where does that leave Kanye? Officially: still the father of her kids, still part of the family story, but no longer the main character in Kim’s personal life. Publicly, at least, she’s framing him as exactly what he legally is – her ex and her co-parent – and saving the fireworks for fashion campaigns and, maybe, race weekends.
What do you make of Kim’s approach here – genuine growth, smart media strategy, or a little of both?
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