How Kanye West Responded When Critics Warned Him Kim Kardashian Would Ruin His Career

Kim Kardashian's faced criticism for most of her adult life, but when she started dating Kanye West, it was the rapper who received the backlash.

"I mean, everyone would tell him, 'You can't be with her! She's a reality star! She's gonna sink your career!'" Kim recalled in a sneak peek of her upcoming E! "True Hollywood Story" special. "And he was just like, 'But I love her. Like, I don't care.'"

For his part, Kanye's just as smitten today with the mother of his four children as he was the day he married her in May 2014.

"Any time I was around her or saw her, it was a magnetic attraction to this force of energy," he said in his confessional-style interview, which will also air on the special. "She was good, pure, happy, loving, brave, courageous, strong."

The two began dating in 2012, a whole decade after they initially met. Kim wishes they didn't wait so long.

"I met Kanye in 2002," she explained. "He would ask everyone who I was, and they always said, 'Oh, she has a boyfriend.' We just always kept on connecting and coming into each other's lives, and then he invited me to Paris to his fashion show, and then that's when it happened. That's when we started our relationship."

"I was like, 'Shit! Why didn't this happen sooner?!'" she went on, adding that their dynamic was and is "just right."

Kim and Kanye welcomed their first child, daughter North, on June 15, 2013. They went on to have a son, Saint, on December 5, 2015, and two children via surrogate: daughter Chicago on January 15, 2018, and son Psalm on May 10 of this year.

Kim Kardashian's E! "True Hollywood Story" special airs Sunday, October 13 at 10 p.m.

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