Kim Kardashian regrets letting her daughter North West post that TikTok video where she dressed up as rapper Ice Spice.
"Every day, the kids get to switch of whose music they want to plug in and listen to on the way to school and North was listening to Ice Spice," said Kim in a new interview with Time magazine focusing on her shapewear brand, Skims. "I didn't know who that was at the time. And I was like, this is the moment when I feel really old and my daughter is now teaching me what's cool. I then had the idea to put [Ice Spice] in a Skims campaign. So that all came through North and what she liked. I think it's always tough when you're co-parenting and someone wants something and someone doesn't."
Kanye West was famously not a fan of North West being on TikTok at all, let alone dancing to Ice Spice's often sexually-charged music. "The Ice Spice videos, she said, 'Mommy, can I post this?'" Kim said. She notes she was "out of town" and her Nanny allowed the TikToks to be posted. "As soon as I saw the words and everything, I was like, 'Oh, no no. We're taking this down.' She totally understood. So, I think that's the trial and error sometimes."
Last year, Kanye made it known he wasn't happy about his daughter sharing videos on TikToks without his approval. "What I should do about my daughter being put on [TikTok] against my will?” he wrote in a since-deleted post. Around the same time, he told Jason Lee of Hollywood Unlocked that he didn't want to see his daughter "wearing lipstick on TikTok."
"I saw on the Internet, it's like, 'Kanye was right,'" she continued. "And maybe he was, you know? In that instance. But in the creative side where she loves making slime videos and doing her little hair tutorials, I will fight for her to be creative in those ways. So, it's always a compromise. No one's always gonna agree and you just have to do the best that you can as a parent and try to protect your kids, but also let them be creative."
For what it's worth, Ice Spice was impressed by North West's creativity when she shared a video showing her sketching the Bronx rapper. They later linked up to dance along to the Pink Pantheress collaboration "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2."
