Recently Kim Kardashian West sent her stepfather Bruce Jenner a text because of something she read online.
“I text[ed] Bruce, ‘I saw on TMZ that you got pulled over. Are you OK?'” she recalled during a recent interview with the Associated Press.
Keeping tabs on one another through blogs and headlines has become normal for a family that’s anything but: a mom, stepdad, five daughters, one son, stepsiblings, assorted spouses, ex-spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends and grandchildren who have become a prominent part of U.S. pop culture since they began putting their lives on display for TV cameras in 2007.
“Sometimes you do have to keep up with each other through what we see,” Kardashian West said of, well, keeping up with the Kardashians.
She’s quick to add that not everything out there is accurate, so they often check in with each other to find out what’s true and what’s not in the near-constant stream of rumors in celebrity magazines and blogs.
“We can text each other and find out, ‘Wait, were you really here? Did you really do this?'” she said.
Such is life for reality television’s first family.
Recently, Kardashian West spoke about how motherhood has emboldened her.
AP: Has motherhood made you bolder? You seem to speak up more when something bothers you.
Kardashian West: Yeah, I think so. I think when you have a baby, there’s like no time for any like (expletive). Excuse my language. You don’t have time for it and sometimes I see things and I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna let that slide. This person was wrong.’ Or whatever I’m feeling, I speak my mind a little bit more after I’ve had our daughter. I don’t know if it’s a combination of being married to someone that’s super honest and open and says whatever he wants whenever he wants to or just not having time really for anything else but the truth and just being real.