'I don't want to get emotional... it's just been a day, for me,' Kim Kardashian says, her voice breaking as she tries to stem the flow of tears threatening to burst forth while she talks to podcast host Angie Martinez.
Speaking on the Angie Martinez IRL series, the reality television mogul is discussing the hardest thing she has had to go through yet, which at the moment, is trying to co-parent her four children - North, 9, Saint, 7, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3 - with ex-husband Kanye West, while every day seems to bring her fresh headline horrors in the press about her ex-husband's activities.
'It’s really f—king hard,' Kardashian, 42, admits of trying to co-parent with West, unable to control the crying.
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'I have to have that smile on my face and blast his music and sing along with my kids and act like nothing is wrong,' sharing that only, ' as I drop them off, I can have a good cry.'
Speaking about why she's finding the situation so incredibly difficult, she opens up to Martinez about her relationship with her own father Robert Kardashian.
'I had the best dad,' she says, pausing as the emotion overwhelms her. 'And I had the best memories. The greatest experience. And that's all I want for my kids. As long as they can have that, that's what I would want for them.'
And in a moment which surely all mothers can relate to, Kardashian confesses that she works hard to protect her children from ever having to know of the turbulence that surrounds their father, shouldering the burden to maintain their innocence:
'So if they don't know things that are being said, or what's happening in the world, why would I ever bring that energy to them?'
The Skims founder explains to Martinez the lengths she goes to, in order to keep her children from having to hear about some of West's controversial behaviour, which has this year included an array of anti-Semitic attacks and putting on a show during Paris Fashion Week that featured models wearing a 'White Lives Matter' top.
'That's really heavy, heavy grown-up sh**, that they are not ready to deal with.'
Whatever opinion you might harbour about Kim Kardashian, we're sure nobody could accuse her of not trying to be the best mother to her four children amid a hurricane of pressure and chaos.
