By now you’re probably aware that Kim Kardashian is living her best single life.
Kim, 42, has spent the majority of her time in the limelight in serious relationships.
Most notably, she was married to Kanye West (now known as Ye) from 2014 until February 2021 and began dating Pete Davidson eight months later, in October.
For example, Pete hardly appeared in Kim’s family’s reality show, The Kardashians, despite the fact that they were together while lots of seasons 1 and 2 was being filmed. Plus, Kim didn’t post any photos of Pete to social media until March — almost half a year after they officially started dating.
Last April, Kim explained why she was choosing to keep the details of her and Pete’s relationship private.
“I do think that I am holding, you know, a little bit more close to my heart on certain aspects of my relationship with Pete,” she said on Hoda Kotb's Making Space podcast.
“It feels good just to know that, like, we have this connection and we have our little bubble of a relationship world that we live in that, like, not a lot of people know about,” she added.
Now, 10 months on from her split from Pete, Kim is opening up about the way her fame makes it incredibly difficult to casually date in private.
Sitting down at dinner with Scott Disick in the latest episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, Kim opens up about her romantic life as she explains that she and Scott are “both single right now” and have a lot to discuss.
When Scott notes that he hasn’t seen Kim “out on any dates or anything,” the business mogul reveals that she “can’t go out” on casual dates and instead has to sneak around “behind doors.”
Scott then asks Kim if she invites men over to her house instead of meeting them in public to avoid being seen. To this, Kim — who has four young kids — immediately notes that it’s “kind of awkward” having to rush people in without anyone seeing. “‘Hurry, hurry, so no one in the hallway sees you,’” she quips as she pretends to usher a date inside.
But then Kim goes on to explain how intense pressure from the media makes dating all the more difficult.
“Here’s the thing,” she says. “If you are seen with someone, then, if it’s starting to not work out, you almost have to try to make it work a little longer because you’re so embarrassed.”
Elaborating further in a confessional, Kim continues, “You obviously learn from every situation, and the one thing I learned from my last situation was that the media made me feel like I was in a very serious relationship so quickly.”
“I just wanna sneak around a little bit,” she adds with a smile. “There’s nothing wrong with wanting to sneak.”
Back at the dinner table, Kim tells Scott that at the moment, she doesn’t want to date just “one person,” before appearing to note that she’s actually “never” dated casually.
And then Kim goes on to reveal that she’s seeing someone new who her friends set her up with. She and Scott nickname this mystery man “Fred.”
“What’s so funny is, my friends wanted me to meet someone, so we go to New York,” she says, adding that they went to her go-to spot that has a “private room downstairs.”
However, as Kim explains, rumors began swirling that she had been rekindling things with Pete, given that she was at the same place where she used to have “secret dinners” with him.
“But then on the internet it was like, ‘Kim reconnects with Pete at this place’ … it was the place that I would go and have my ‘secret dinners’ with Pete,” she says before quipping, “He’s probably like, ‘I know what she’s up to.’”
After telling Scott that “Fred” definitely “meets the standards,” Kim appears super giddy as she excitedly texts the mystery man during a confessional.
Later on during their meal, Kim and Scott wind up discussing the topic of age gaps in relationships. When Kim notes that she doesn’t want to date anyone far older or younger than she is, the pair bring up the 40-year age gap between then-couple Cher and Alexander Edwards.
Kim explains that she’d feel “insecure” if she were dating someone 40 years her junior, which prompts Scott to say of Cher, “Maybe she’s secure, or has the lights off.”
And then Kim reveals, “I pretty much have the lights off now.”
Scott can’t hold back his shock as he stares at Kim in disbelief. “What?!” he asks while she giggles.
In a confessional, Kim elaborates further. After being asked by a producer off camera whether she’s a “lights-off kind of girl,” she smiles and says, “Kind of…yeah. It’s so weird.”
