Mr Viral
North West Teases Mom Kim Kardashian Over Her “Cooking” and Reveals Her Fake Name
Should North West stay the course she appears to be on—toward spotlight-stealing stardom, that is—the world best get ready.
But mom Kim Kardashian has had a front-row seat to the North show.
Because while 10 was a formative age for her, the kid has really doubled down on 11 when it comes to building her public profile—on her own terms.
“I like taking pictures of myself, but I don’t like when paparazzi do,” North explained to her mother during a recent exchange for Interview, featuring the child on the cover. “When I just woke up and there’s so much paparazzi, I’m like, ‘Yo, I’m going to sue you.’ If I’m ready, if I’m not tired, if my outfit’s good, I’m like, ‘Okay, I could take a picture.'”
Hmm, sounds like a certain Libra turning 44 on Oct. 21 whose personal brand-building operation remains unparalleled.
Aside from countless cameos on her sprawling family’s Instagram pages over the years, North has a considerable TikTok presence, thanks to the account she shares with her mom that boasts 19.2 million followers.
“She teaches me patience,” Kim quipped last year on The Kardashians of Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and 5-year-old Psalm’s big sister. “She has taught me a lot about life.”
Moreover, North’s already got multiple aliases, including a rap name—Miss Westie—and has said she’s planning to release an album called Elementary School Dropout, a nod to her dad Kanye West’s seminal 2004 release The College Dropout. She’s not sure yet when her addition to the West family canon will be ready, only promising when a 13-year-old reporter caught up with her at the Rolling Loud California music festival in March that “it’s gonna be great.”
Because she also already has rapper swag.
And she appeared in a special production of The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl in May, so now she knows what a standing ovation feels like.
Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images
“I like singing. Performing is my favorite,” North told i-D in October, listing rapper, basketball player (she plays hoops and loves a courtside Lakers game) and artist as future occupations she’d like to tackle.
You can also add business owner to the list. “One day,” North noted, “I want to own Yeezy and SKIMS,” her dad and mom’s respective companies.
Before that day comes, however, the tween doesn’t plan to just rely on her allowance to furnish her dreams.
“When I’m, like, 13, I want to walk dogs, to make money to buy art supplies,” North said, “because everything around here is so expensive.”
They grow up so fast.
But as evidenced by her ease in front of the camera and how preternaturally comfortable she appears out in public—enough to signal to photographers at a fashion show to quit paying so much attention to her so as not to take away from the clothes—North is on her way.
“I already do a lot of stuff that I want to be when I grow up,” she told her mom for Interview. “I just want to pursue my careers now.”
So before she goes off in a whole new direction, check out North’s mother-applauded sassiest moments:
Tiktok
Wanna Bet?
North West never forgets her bets.
Kim Kardashian shocked TikTok last January when she unveiled a surprising transformation that included a heavy face of makeup and dark eyebrows. Kim finished the beauty routine by putting on a nude lip and fake lashes, posing for the camera while chewing gum and lip-syncing to Millie B’s viral song “M to the B.”
While The Kardashians star’s fans were initially confused, Kim later revealed that her 10-year-old daughter was responsible for the eyebrow-raising look, tweeting, “The bribes and bet losing I have going on with North is unreal!”
Read the Sign
North had a message to send to the paparazzi when she accompanied Kim to Paris Fashion Week last summer, famously holding up a piece of paper that said “Stop.”
After their trip, Kim took to Twitter to reveal the backstory behind North’s note.
“For anyone who knows North knows how funny she finds this video!” Kim wrote in a July 7 tweet. “North I guess had it with the people taking pictures of her so she wrote on her invite STOP and held it up.”
According to Kim, North simply “wanted them to just focus on the show” and not her.
TikTok
Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
North trolled her mother in epic fashion—pun fully intended—when she recreated her Balenciaga packing tape look from Paris Fashion Week 2022.
In a TikTok that July, North wrapped a few strands of the tape Kim used around her black t-shirt, completing her look by donning a platinum blonde wig. Not only did she dress like Kim, North also poked fun at her mom even further by lip-syncing alongside an audio that featured a few of Kim’s iconic Keeping Up With the Kardashians quotes alongside Megan Thee Stallion’s song “Savage.”
Of course, North recreated the infamous moment where Kim lost her diamond earring in Bora Bora, as well as when she hit Khloé Kardashian with a purse all while telling her not to be rude.
Eyebrow-Raising Behavior
In a Dec. 18 TikTok video posted to their join account, North pranked Kim by pretending to shave the SKIMS mogul’s brows off as she slept in bed.
“So funny, the fake eyebrows filter,” the caption over the video read, with North was using a camera filter to make Kim’s eyebrows appear thinner onscreen.
So, how did Kim react after being woken up by North? After opening her eyes and seeing what’s on screen, the reality star quipped, “North, this is not funny.”
Extreme Special Effects
Anyone who follows Kim and North’s TiKTok account knows North is as gifted as her mom when it comes to makeup. In fact, her skills might be a little too good as Kim revealed one of her pranks involving special effects makeup almost got the cops involved.
“I have a teacher come and show her special effects makeup—where it’s like wounds and blood and tons of stuff,” Kim explained to Allure in July 2022. “She’s actually so good that I rented a house this summer and she took all of her special effects makeup and she decided not only to prank me and do it on her and Chicago, but she made the whole room look like a murder scene.”
Because she was tired, Kim left the mess to clean up the next morning. “I had to rush out the door and go to school,” Kim continued. “The housekeeper came and tried to call the authorities and called the homeowner thinking that it was a full, real murder scene.”
“It was bad,” Kim said. “I have photos and it’s crazy.”
A New Way to Roast Your Vegetables
North clearly doesn’t beet around the bush.
When Kim took to her Instagram Story to show off freshly picked crops from her home garden last April, not everyone was impressed by her bounty of “cute” carrots, kale, leeks and beets. “They look disgusting,” North quipped off-camera while Kim was filming her healthy haul.
In the caption, Kim also poked fun of daughter’s unprompted honesty, writing, “Thanks North.”
Instagram / Kim Kardashian
Talk That Talk
Forget a baby voice, Kim clearly has social media speech.
“Why do you talk different?” North asked a September 2011 video, noting that Kim changes up the way she sounds for her clips.
A surprised Kim responded, “From my videos? I’m the same human being. I don’t talk different.” Kim then inquired if she speaks differently when she films videos about makeup contouring, which prompted North to imitate her mom’s glam tutorial voice.
Getty Images for Daily Front Row
Sour Indeed
It’s brutal out there for a mom of an Olivia Rodrigo fan.
When the “driver’s license” singer sent Kim a PR package filled with merch in May 2021, the KKW Beauty founder shared the gift on her Instagram Story. “You guys know I love ‘drivers license,'” Kim told the camera.
However, an off-camera North was standing by to call her out, claiming, “You never listen to it.” A shocked Kim laughed before telling her, “Yes, I do! I listen to it all the time. Stop, North.” Kim captioned the video with “NORTH!!!!!” along with three laughing-crying emojis.
(Originally published June 15, 2024, at 4 a.m. PT)
GIPHY App Key not set. Please check settings