Veronique Bette

The Kardashian-Jenners, including Kendall, have plenty of bad taste or bland taste on their own. Kanye is not responsible for all of their fashion missteps. Kendall, in particular, has her own team of stylists and PR folks to prep her for her on- and off-duty photo shots. Let’s give credit --or blame -- where it is due.

But then again, maybe North will be glad to let her little sister take her place in the intrusive glare of the spotlight, while she can finally enjoy a more private and normal childhood, something she has never experienced since the day she was born to her narcissistic famewhore mother. I think it’s sad that it’s only Kim’s version of events that has now cast North as some kind of bad seed who hates her little brother and so might actually “hurt” her younger siblings. This is the same Kim who pretended that it was then 3-year-old North who “accidentally” posted sexy pictures of Kim while playing with mommy’s phone. Nor do I believe that Kim stopped breastfeeding Saint because of North’s jealousy. What then was the reason Kim was in Paris for fashion shows 3 months after North’s birth? I guess it was Kanye who was jealous since there were no siblings to blame for why she was not breastfeeding her only child at the time. It’s not that I think every woman can or wants to breastfeed; that’s a personal choice. What’s unforgivable is that Kim uses her own small daughter as a scapegoat or storyline when it suits her purpose.

Calling Dr. Freud! I think Kim is projecting her own feelings about Saint (and maybe little brothers in general) onto North. Trust me, if the next child is a girl, Kim will be gushing about how much North adores her little sister and is sharing all her dolls with her. I don’t believe this North jealousy thing at all, but even if it were true, as a mother, Kim should be quietly encouraging closeness between the siblings instead of making it a public talking point to get herself more attention. Kim is just fake and deceitful. For example, she recently said that North loves her curly hair, yet in every picture, Kim makes sure that North’s hair is as slicked back and tightly bound as possible. Nothing she says is believable, even when it’s about her children.

I actually think North is beautifully dressed in every one of these pictures (except for the huge earrings) but sadly, she is already being positioned as the next generation “star”, with this as her first magazine cover and solo interview. At age 4! While channeling Jackie Kennedy, Kim apparently did not get the memo that Jackie protected her children fiercely and did not expose them to the paparazzi or mainstream press, unlike Kim, who has been using poor North as a prop ever since the child was born.

Has he been a jerk in public since his breakdown and treatment? Not seeing what there would be to mock him about, PC or otherwise. So far, his medication and therapy regimen seems to be working for him despite some recent obvious provocations from other high-profile celebrities. Clearly in the past, he was a jerk (to put it mildly), but since his breakdown almost a year ago, I haven't heard or read anything about him ranting or behaving in a bizarre or obnoxious manner. If this is due to his complying with his meds and therapy, I hope it continues.

When did Kanye ever mention Blue Ivy?

As far as the children go, all Kanye said in his onstage rant against Jay Z and Beyonce, was that he was hurt that there had not been a play date with Blue Ivy and his children. I don’t see how this was disrespectful to Jay’s child. If I had children in the same age range as close friends, I would want them to get together. On the other hand, Kanye’s comments about Jay’s “killers” and all of that about Beyonce at the VMA’S (true or not) was another matter; that was way over the line. But shortly after that incident, Kanye basically had a 5150 hospitalization, so in Jay’s place, I might have given Kanye some latitude and understanding as to why he was off the hook -- that is, if there was a genuine friendship in the first place. I believe that Kim’s robbery unbalanced whatever balance Kanye had left, and he was totally hurt that Jay had not even tried to contact him to see how he was dealing with all of this. I am not a Kanye apologist, but neither do I worship at the altar of Jay and Bey.

I don’t see how the pots and the kettles in this family could call each other out on anything, least of all fakeness.

Hey, I don’t even know how ‘Ol Blue Eyes would have liked that Kendall and all of the others featured in that Adidas ad are reciting the lyrics to one of his most signature songs, “My Way”, or that those lyrics would be compared to something that Kanye would have written. But who knows? Maybe there would have been a Frank-Kanye collaboration on one of Frank’s famous “duets” albums. Not that I would have been holding my breath waiting for that to happen, lol.

Lol. I think some Frank Sinatra fans might disagree with you here.

I agree that Khloe wanted to hide the state of her marriage, but I do not agree that she was “duped” by Lamar. I think it’s more accurate to say that she blinded herself to the reality of Lamar’s preexisting issues so that she could rush into this marriage after only 3 months of dating. It’s good that Lamar is taking responsibility for his failures as a husband, but Khloe also needs to hold herself accountable for her poor judgment and desperation. I would like to think that she has learned from that experience. But has she?

Putting my natural cynicism aside, I am hoping that North will become a true rebel, refusing to join the family “firm” of plastic hypersexuality and exploitation. After a lifetime of paparazzi intrusion and forced selfies, maybe one day she will say “Enough already!” and just want to get a good education and lead a private life away from the media spotlight that her narcissistic and avaricious relatives crave. She’s just a little girl and so far this is the only life she has known.

Stranded on a desert island with any of these three? In those circumstances, I’d choose to while away my time cultivating a friendship with a passing man-eating shark. And here is Kim yesterday maintaining her post-Paris robbery “low public profile”. So had the robbery not taken place, I assume she’d now be sashaying around totally nude.

In addition to being a truly beautiful and talented woman and a humanitarian, Elizabeth Taylor was also a loving mother who kept her children out of the spotlight. She was particularly protective of her daughter Liza who has shunned public attention all her life. Kim could learn from her example. Though I don’t think Kim or anyone else would aspire to Elizabeth’s tumultuous personal life, with eight marriages (five of them by the time she was Kim’s age), serious addictions, and weight battles. However, I agree and admire that she did own who she was, in a candid and forthright manner, something fake Kim would never do. Kim probably has gotten the most she can out of marriage to Kanye in terms of publicity and perks. I don’t know what stunts she could have pulled on her own to garner the Kimye level of media attention she initially enjoyed. Celebrity marriages tend to have a short shelf life, relatively speaking, so I don’t think anyone would be too shocked if this one eventually bit the dust.

Kim is an exact clone of her mother Kris. Just as Kris sexualized 9-year-old Kylie on the KUWTK stripper pole episode, Kim has no qualms about sexualizing North in these (in my opinion) inappropriate outfits or poses posted online, and for what? Do they not have enough money in their empire? Do they need more page clicks and notoriety? If Kim and her sisters want to exploit their own “charms” for the paparazzi, then fine, but let the little kids just be kids and live their innocent lives while they can. No amount of money will be enough to pay for the therapy bills for all the little ones in this screwed up family, whose lives are played out in the public arena. And no, I am not a “Get off my lawn” old fart; I just think that kids grow up too fast in these days anyway, so why rush them, Kris, Kim & Co?

A suicidal parent? A gun in the home? The physical violence and ugliness alleged (and filmed) between insipid, idiotic Rob and vulgar, streetwise Chyna? No, none of the Kardashian-Jenner parents would make Parenting magazine but to me, Dream (and King) are much more at risk from seeing and living this domestic violence (because that is what it is) than the other children of this dysfunctional family, whatever their names might be. As the song says, “Let’s call this thing just what it is.”

Yes, Rob is a lazy, entitled, irresponsible man child who has been spoiled and coddled -- particularly by Kris and Khloe. He needs to grow up, especially now that he is the 30-year-old father of an innocent baby, and that baby is a helpless pawn in all of this. If he needs professional help to do so, he has all the resources in the world to seek out that help. But neither do I see Chyna as a victim, I see her as a smart, calculating street fighter, someone who shrewdly played the long game of revenge and avarice against the Kardashians, using weak-minded Rob as her chess piece. She’s beating that family at their own game. If Kim had not befriended her and if Kylie had not become involved with Tyga, no one would know or care about her legal battles with her baby daddies. I am sure that publicity-seeking Lisa Bloom would not have taken up her case nor would Chyna have been interviewed by GMA or have a world of paparazzi camped outside the courthouse for something as routine and mundane as a restraining order. Ms. Angela White knows what she is doing and her only regret is that she is not officially Mrs. Angela Kardashian and cannot legally market and parlay that name for even more recognition and riches. I couldn’t care less if Angela “bent over” on every street corner or every stripper pole out there or got some random or targeted dudes to pay for the privilege of enjoying her favors, including dumbass Rob. My problem is that she brought a vulnerable child into this mess just to ensure at least 18 years of guaranteed income from a super wealthy family whose only male heir is not playing with a full deck and could be easily manipulated. Why not just name the baby “Dream Paycheck”? And by the way, I do think that under the law, Chyna is entitled to the same protection from “revenge porn” from a disgruntled ex as anyone else. But just to keep it real, I have much more sympathy for those women and girls who naively believed that they were sending intimate pictures only to their boyfriends or significant others and never expected or wanted for these images to appear online. They are the ones who are truly “devastated”. JMHO

From Chyna’s written statement, “(Rob) threatened to kill himself multiple times in text messages since we broke up in December 2016, trying to manipulate me to respond to his outbursts.” And “I take his threats seriously because he showed me his gun at his house”. So does she think he’s just manipulating her or does she take his threats seriously? Which is it? And why would she purposely taunt and provoke an emotionally unstable person she claims to have seen with a gun in his house? She rushed off to court fast enough after he released those photos but was never “terrified” enough before that to request that a court order an evaluation of him to see if he is stable enough to have unsupervised visits with their child.

Chyna claims to be “terrified” of Rob’s violence, particularly because (according to her) he has a gun and has threatened to kill himself with it. Yet she’s not afraid for her daughter to be with him four days out of the week? If all that she says is true, shouldn’t she be asking for a court-ordered psych eval for him and CPS safety assessment of his home prior to allowing the child to be there with him? Apparently nannies are always present but it’s not their job to monitor Rob. Shared physical custody arrangements have been mentioned but both parents are volatile and have made serious charges against each other that, if true, could compromise the child’s safety in either of their homes. There has been so much focus on nude photos, jewelry, and cars but very little about the wellbeing of Dream and King.

If Rob was just an unknown overweight, balding, sweaty “sock entrepreneur” (whatever that is), I would totally agree with you. But Rob has the immense Kardashian fortune and celebrity behind him and that is what drew calculating Ms. Chyna to him. Because of that, and by her reasoning, he was several steps up from mediocre rapper Tyga.

But see, this is about more than Rob’s dysfunctional relationship with Chyna. He is the ultimate loose cannon who has no f**Ks to give and could spill all the family secrets. I think that Kris & Co. are very much worried about how uncontrollable Rob is at this point and how he could damage and bring down the whole Kardashian-Jenner brand. Yep.

Lisa Bloom is the attorney daughter of publicity-seeking celebrity attorney Gloria Allred. I will say no more.

Kylie was gyrating on a stripper pole when she was only 9 years old in the KUWTK episode where Brody was “babysitting” and by her early teens, was already augmenting her body a la Kim. But I hope that some sane and caring relative or nanny can guide innocent baby Dream in a different direction. Yesterday “Poor Dream” was trending on social media because of the two tawdry messes she has for parents.

And here is my problem with that: Properly licensed or not, I just can’t get with the trend of “vintage” artists apparel for young children or for anyone who has not the least idea or appreciation of the significance of the artists they are wearing, whatever the genre. These items originally were meant to be a nostalgic tribute to these artists, and not a cutesy parental conceit or a marketing ploy. Kendall and Kylie are the worst, as they superimposed their own stupid images over those of these artists. Aside from the legal ramifications, what were those shirts supposed to be saying?

I never believed Kim’s story that North was beating up her baby brother or that she gave up breastfeeding the baby because of North’s alleged terrible jealousy. Kim just didn’t want to breastfeed but blamed that on North just as she claimed that it was North who “accidentally” posted sexy bikini pictures of Kim while playing with mommy’s phone.