Kris Jenner has never been just any regular mom. She’s the momager supreme, the grand duchess of reality TV diplomacy, the woman who can negotiate multimillion-dollar deals before breakfast and still find time to babysit the grandkids.
But even by Kris’ legendary standards, there’s always been one part of her playbook that leaves fans gasping: her uncanny ability to stay chummy with her daughters’ exes long after shocking breakups, jaw-dropping scandals, and salacious headlines.
Kris’ ex-in-law list reads like a highlight reel of Hollywood chaos. She stuck by daughter Kim Kardashian‘s ex Kanye West for way longer than anyone expected, even when he went off the rails and dragged Kris into his meltdown storm. And even after that saga, Kris has stayed remarkably loyal to other exes orbiting her family, too. She still shows up at events with daughter Khloé Kardashian‘s slippery ex Tristan Thompson. She has nothing but love and best wishes for Lamar Odom. And she continues to treat Kourtney Kardashian‘s ex Scott Disick like a beloved honorary KarJenner. But why?!
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Well, the 70-year-old is finally spilling the glamorous, messy, surprisingly heartfelt truth behind it. She appeared on the latest episode of the On Purpose podcast with Jay Shetty on Monday. On it, she dove into the emotional center of her complicated empire and revealed why she just can’t bring herself to cut the exes loose.
Here’s what she said about remaining friends with her kids’ former flames:
“I fall in love with people, have lives and years spent with their partners or their boyfriends or their husbands. And I have all these memories and travels and Christmas morning celebrations and birthdays and all the fun, the laughter, the joys, the tears, the babies.”
Then, Kris doubled down with this:
“These are, in most cases, the fathers of my grandchildren. And I love these men, and that love doesn’t go away when we experience really challenging times with them. It just doesn’t turn off like that for me.”
Say what you want about the momager, but Kris is a woman who takes her role as matriarch seriously!
She even said the exes know they can still come to her with their problems. And yes, she keeps those doors open partly because of the grandkids. She explained:
“What will my grandkids think 20 years from now if their grandmother treated their dad poorly? Or I wasn’t loving and kind and compassionate and forgiving? So, I teach my kids forgiveness. It’s one of the biggest lessons that I can teach them, to forgive somebody who’s treated you badly and move on.”
Honestly, that’s a great lesson to teach. Kudos, Kris!
Now, she didn’t shy away from acknowledging that fans are confused (and, TBH, a little suspicious) of her ability to stay cordial with guys who have publicly messed up her daughters’ lives. She gets it! She knows the receipts are out there.
But in true Kris fashion, she’s already compartmentalized all the drama, boxed it, labeled it, monetized it, and moved on. She told Shetty:
“We don’t need to talk about these things anymore. It’s been done. It’s dealt with. We’ve talked about it. We all know what’s happened. We’ve had it on the show or we’ve had it in our lives. Now it’s time to grow the f**k up, be mature. I love who I’ve loved and I don’t like what they’ve done. No I don’t. But it doesn’t make the love get any less overnight.”
That’s Kris Jenner in a nutshell, y’all: tough, strategic, sentimental, and somehow still wholesome.
TBH, only she could turn a carousel of bad-boy exes into a lesson on personal growth, unconditional love, and multigenerational harmony. This woman really is playing 4D chess while the rest of us are still figuring out checkers.
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