Kim Kardashian shared a nostalgic glimpse into the past with a throwback bikini photo on Thursday, amid news of her ex-husband Kanye West’s split from Bianca Censori.
The reality TV star, 44, shrugged off the drama surrounding her ex-husband — who broke silence on his split with a creepy message — sharing a snap of herself in a two-piece polka dot bikini, taken in 1994, when she was 14-year-old.
The photo showed a fresh-faced Kim with her short black hair slicked back, a style she recently reprised in a SKIMS ad, sparking comparisons to Bianca, 30.
However, Kim Kardashain appeared to prove she’s been sporting the hairdo since she was a teenager, with one fan in the comments chiming in, ‘Showing the people she been rockin her hair like this before home girl was born.’
Meanwhile model Abigail Ratchford added, ‘Did the short slicked hair since she was a teen.’
The image shows young Kim relaxing on a balcony, with a lush tropical view stretching out behind her.
Another person wrote, ‘She said , “been had this cut.”‘
Meanwhile others were shocked to find out Kim’s age in the snap.
‘When I was 14 I looked nothing like this,’ one wrote.
‘She’s 14 here?!’ someone else questioned.
The post came amid news that Kanye, 47 — who recently went on a three-day barrage of anti-Semitic, racist, and sexist tweets — and Bianca are allegedly heading for divorce just 11 days after her naked stunt on the Grammys red carpet.
It’s thought that they have verbally agreed that she will get a payment of $5 million following the short marriage, which began in December 2022.
A source close to the rapper confirmed that the couple have now broken up and that they expect a legal filing to end the marriage in the coming days.
Censori is understood to be staying at their $35 million house in Beverly Park North, Los Angeles for now.
It’s not known where West is but some believe he may even head back in the coming days to Tokyo, Japan, where he spent much of last year living in a hotel.
She appeared plainly unhappy on the red carpet on February 2 when West instructed her to drop her fur coat and ‘make a scene’ but she went along with his instructions.
Friends of West insisted that the stunt was his idea of ‘art’ and also intended to replicate the cover of his album Vultures 2.
The split will affect the whole family, as Bianca had developed a bond with Kim and Kanye’s four kids: North, 11, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5.
She was pictured embracing North during an outing in July 2024.
Bianca was also seen sweetly cradling Chicago last year.
And in January of 2024 Kanye praised Bianca for being ‘the most amazing stepmother to our children’ in a birthday tribute.
Last February, a source revealed to DailyMail.com that Kim Kardashian had asked Kanye to have his wife — who’s known for her X-rated looks — to cover up when around their children.
Kim Kardashian instructed Kanye to never let Bianca dress like that around their kids. She is truly surprised that Kanye would let his wife leave the house like that.’
The insider added: ‘Kanye did the same thing he is doing with Bianca to Kim throughout their marriage. The difference is that when Kanye dressed Kim, he was respected as a person – as an artist.’
Kim Kardashian and Kanye tied the knot in May 2014 in Italy. Kim later filed for divorce in February 2021, with the divorce settled in November 2022.
In the days following the Grammys, West went on an anti-Semitic rant on Twitter, saying that he was a Nazi and loved Hitler.
He also took an advertising slot at the Super Bowl for his clothing line, which was reduced to just one item, a $20 t-shirt carrying the Nazi swastika.
The site was closed down by Shopify within 24 hours.
He was also banned from X, formerly Twitter, but returned to the site on Thursday having deleted much of his offensive comment. He said that his rants had been a ‘social experiment.’
He stated: ‘So funny how N****** rapping about killing N****** is not hate but posting a swastika is hate.’
His actions have prompted outrage in Hollywood, with Australian actress Isla Fisher and Friends icon David Schwimmer being among those to publicly condemn him.
In an interview earlier this month. West said that he had been ‘misdiagnosed’ as bipolar and instead was autistic. He added that he believed that he was a former Emperor of Japan – as did Censori.
Kim made rare comments about her ex Kanye on this week’s episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians.
The reality star was immersed in a conversation with her mother Kris Jenner and sister Khloe Kardashian in the new episode.
They were all discussing Khloe’s surprising meeting with her ex-husband Lamar Odom in last week’s Season 6 premiere.
Khloe discussed how drug addiction tore apart her marriage to the former NBA star, and Kim touched on her own experience struggling with a ‘change’ in a partner’s personality.
Kim Kardashian recalled that when Lamar was in the hospital, she was delivering her son Saint, as they showed a throwback snap of Khloe, Lamar and Kanye as Khloe held the newborn Saint.
While she never did mention her ex Kanye West by name, it was clear she was referring to him.
Khloe was mentioning how she didn’t regret marrying Lamar so young, adding he was the ‘love of my life,’ though she didn’t know he was doing drugs until a year in.
Kim responded, ‘That’s the hardest part. I’ve been there, when you don’t foresee something happening that really changes a person’s personality.’
And then they’re not the same person and you can’t ever get that person back, but you can’t live with the new person, you know, like, I get it,’ Kim said.
Kim added in confession, ‘It’s tougher when you don’t want your marriage to end off of like your personal reasons, but circumstances change that force your marriage to end.’
She added that she has ‘been there’ and Khloe has been there too, and that, ‘When you aren’t planning on that, and that’s not really the outcome you want, but there’s no other option, I think that makes it like harder to get over.’
Kim has yet to address her ex’s controversial anti-Semitic remarks, which has caused friction with her sister Kourtney’s ex Scott Disick.
‘Scott was raised Jewish and the fact that Kim has not denounced Kanye West’s hateful anti-Semitic remarks absolutely infuriates him,’ an insider told DailyMail.com.
‘He has had it with Kanye and takes personal offence to his attack on the Jewish community,’ the insider added.