Becoming a mother to North West has really changed Kim Kardashian – which she proved in a letter she posted to her website last night.
The reality TV star penned the piece on her experiences of becoming a mother and seeing the world through her daughter’s eyes.
Opening up about the issue of racism, the star admits to feeling it was ‘someone else’s battle’ before becoming a mother. Kim has a one year old daughter with rapper Kanye West.
Kim’s fiancé, Kanye West, has been very vocal on the topic in the past speaking out against the discrimination he has faced.
In January, Kim was verbally attacked by an 18-year old outside a medical building in LA. According to media reports, the young man called Kim a “n****r lover” and “stupid slut” after she tackled him on using racial slurs.
In the moving letter Kim writes:
“I never knew how much being a mom would change me. It’s amazing how one little person and the love I have for her has brought new meaning to every moment. What once seemed so important, now feels insignificant. It’s like I get to see the world for the first time again, but through someone else’s eyes. It’s a beautiful thing to feel and experience so much more, but with that beauty comes a flip side – seeing through my daughter’s eyes the side of life that isn’t always so pretty.
To be honest, before I had North, I never really gave racism or discrimination a lot of thought. It is obviously a topic that Kanye is passionate about, but I guess it was easier for me to believe that it was someone else’s battle. But recently, I’ve read and personally experienced some incidents that have sickened me and made me take notice. I realize that racism and discrimination are still alive, and just as hateful and deadly as they ever have been.
I feel a responsibility as a mother, a public figure, a human being, to do what I can to make sure that not only my child, but all children, don’t have to grow up in a world where they are judged by the color of their skin, or their gender, or their sexual orientation. I want my daughter growing up in a world where love for one another is the most important thing.
So the first step I’m taking is to stop pretending like this isn’t my issue or my problem, because it is, it’s everyone’s… because the California teenager who was harassed and killed by his classmates for being gay, the teenage blogger in Pakistan who was shot on her school bus for speaking out in favor of women’s rights, the boy in Florida who was wrongly accused of committing a crime and ultimately killed because of the color of his skin, they are all someone’s son and someone’s daughter and it is our responsibility to give them a voice and speak out for those who can’t and hopefully in the process, ensure that hate is something our children never have to see.”
