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One day, the timing of Kardashian news will be studied on Celebrity 101. Just this weekend, Khloé Kardashian welcomed her second child with ex Tristan Thompson, and reports of Kim’s rumored breakup Kardashian and Pete Davidson took over the speech.
A rep for Khloé confirmed Friday afternoon that she and Thompson welcomed a baby boy via surrogate. This is their second child together, they also share True Thompson, 4, and Thompson’s fourth overall. News that the former couple was expecting another baby broke last month, several months after Thompson admitted to cheating on Khloé in court documents related to a paternity suit. A paternity test would later confirm that he had fathered a son, Theo, with Maralee Nichols. (She also shares a 5-year-old son, Prince, with Jordan Craig.) In a statement confirming the news, Khloé’s rep clarified that the child was “conceived in November,” meaning before Khloé and all others find out. his paternity suit.
Baby news is usually a huge celebration worthy of a reality show—who could forget when Kourtney Kardashian helped deliver her own baby or when Khloé gave birth to True while the family snuggled up with Thompson cheating rumors? But the arrival of Khloé’s son, for now, is being kept mostly private. After Khloé confirmed the baby news in July, a source told E! News that she had tried to keep the news out of the press, saying she wanted to “protect her mental health from public judgment as a result of Tristan’s actions.” (If you watched Twitter the night it was confirmed, you’d understand their reasoning.) Now that the baby is actually here, what better way to keep “public judgment” at bay than to have another competing story in the press? Like, for example, your sister’s breakup? Cue reports Kim and Pete split after nine months of dating.
Neither Kim nor Pete have confirmed the news of their breakup, but reports claim that the couple simply fell out. A source told E! News that their work schedules and long-distance commutes “made it very difficult to maintain a relationship.” Meanwhile, Entertainment Tonight quoted a source as saying that Kim “didn’t feel ready for something serious with him.” (Couldn’t she have thought of that before her name could be branded on her chest?) But despite being unconfirmed, the story of the demise of Kim and Pete’s relationship has completely taken over the Kardashian narrative this head of the week, a coincidence that fans have been quick to make. points out on Twitter.
Call it fate, call it Kris Jenner, either way you have to admit the timing is pretty, er, convenient.
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