Kim Kardashian files for divorce from Kanye West

Kim Kardashian’s marriage to rapper Kanye West is said to be officially over.

Kardashian filed for divorce after almost seven years of marriage on Friday.

Kim is asking for joint legal and physical custody of the couple’s four kids, TMZ reports.

Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ both Kardashian and West are committed to co-parenting together.

The impending end of “Kimye” brings a close to one of the most famous celebrity unions of the 21st century, between a reality TV superstar and a hip hop and fashion mega-mogul.

They have four young children: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm. The two married in Italy in 2014.

In early 2021, rumours began to swirl that Kardashian was considering separating from the long-time rapper as their marriage was said to be on the rocks following multiple outbursts from West on social media and in public.

West was a vocal Donald Trump supporter who became a minor candidate for president last year; he ended up having little effect on the election. Kardashian has taken preliminary steps toward becoming a lawyer after devoting herself increasingly to freeing the unjustly imprisoned, which had led to meetings with Trump.

In a since-deleted tweet from July 2020, West said he had been trying to divorce Kardashian, that her mother Kris Jenner was a tyrant and that the family was trying to force him into psychiatric treatment.

Kardashian responded with a statement on Instagram, urging people to have compassion for West as he struggled with mental illness.

“He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with that pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bipolar disorder,” Kardashian said.

“Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words sometimes do not align with his intentions.”

West has not tweeted since election night.

It was the first marriage for the 43-year-old West, and the third for the 40-year-old Kardashian.

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.

The beginning of the end of the marriage comes after the September announcement that the show that made her family’s name, “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” was coming to an end in 2021 after 14 years.

With files from The Associated Press