For Kim Kardashian, finding love again was not a matter of rushing into another relationship. After the end of her marriage to Kanye West, the reality star says she deliberately spent years on her own, concentrating on her children, her work and the process of healing before she was ready to open herself up to romance again.
Kardashian, 45, recently reflected on that period of her life in an interview with The Sunday Times, explaining that she was “really single for five years” and that she ultimately found the experience rewarding rather than lonely.
“I could focus on my kids and projects that I really wanted to be involved with,” Kardashian told The Sunday Times. “I really felt no rush. Like, I really didn’t feel empty.”
Her comments offer a different perspective on the years between her divorce filing and her eventual relationship with Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton. While Kardashian remained one of the world’s most closely watched celebrities, she says her personal life was not driven by a need to find a new partner.
Instead, she used the time to concentrate on family and personal priorities.
A deliberate break from relationships
Kardashian filed for divorce from West, now known as Ye, in February 2021, bringing an end to a highly publicized marriage that had occupied a significant part of both their lives. The former couple share four children: North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.
The years that followed were closely followed by the public, but Kardashian says she was not actively looking for another serious relationship.
There was a brief romantic connection with comedian Pete Davidson, but Kardashian otherwise largely remained out of the dating spotlight. Her decision to stay single, according to her account, was intentional.
“I felt like I needed my time,” she told The Sunday Times. “I wanted to completely heal and just work on myself. I wasn’t ready to open up.”
Kardashian’s explanation also emphasizes that being single was not something she viewed as a temporary inconvenience. She said she was not even thinking about finding another relationship at the time.
“I really wasn’t even thinking about it,” she said, adding that she believes “the universe works in your favour when you just allow it to.”
That period coincided with Kardashian continuing to build her career beyond reality television. Alongside her long-running public profile, she has focused on her business interests and projects, while also raising her four children.
The distinction is important to understanding how she describes the transition from her marriage to her current relationship. Rather than presenting her time alone as a search for another partner, Kardashian portrays it as a period in which other parts of her life took priority.
From longtime acquaintance to reported romance
That changed with Lewis Hamilton.
Kardashian and Hamilton were known to each other for years before reports of a romantic relationship emerged. According to HELLO!, the pair have known each other since at least 2014, establishing a longstanding connection well before their relationship became the subject of widespread speculation.
The shift from friendship to romance became a major celebrity story earlier this year, particularly because of the prominence of both figures in their respective industries.
Hamilton, a seven-time Formula 1 world champion, has spent much of his adult life under intense international scrutiny. Kardashian, meanwhile, has built an equally recognizable global profile through television, business and fashion.
Their relationship therefore represents a meeting of two very different celebrity worlds: American entertainment and international motorsport.
After months of dating rumors, Kardashian was seen supporting Hamilton at the Monaco Grand Prix on June 7. Her presence at the race added to speculation about the nature of their relationship, while Hamilton subsequently spoke publicly about the support he had received from her.
During a post-race press conference, Hamilton described Kardashian’s presence positively.
“It’s amazing to have her come this weekend and have the support,” he said, according to HELLO!.
He went on to emphasize the importance of having supportive people around him, adding that Kardashian supports him “every day.”
His comments did not provide a detailed account of their relationship, but they added to the public picture of a couple whose connection had moved beyond the speculation that initially surrounded them.
Why the timing matters
The contrast between Kardashian’s five years of singledom and her relationship with Hamilton is central to her account of this chapter of her life.
She has specifically described not feeling pressured to find someone new. That makes the timing of her romance with Hamilton notable: after years of saying she was not ready to open herself up, Kardashian eventually entered a relationship after allowing herself considerable time away from dating.
It would be speculative to conclude that her five years alone directly led to her relationship with Hamilton. Kardashian herself, however, frames the sequence as one in which she first focused on healing and personal growth and only later became open to a new relationship.
Her comments also underscore the difference between being publicly visible and being personally available. Kardashian remained a constant presence in entertainment news throughout those years, yet she says her private priorities were elsewhere.
Her children were a major part of that focus. Kardashian and West’s four children remain central to her family life, and she specifically cited being able to concentrate on them as one of the benefits of remaining single.
For a celebrity whose relationships have often been treated as public entertainment, Kardashian’s description places the emphasis somewhere else: on the value she found in having time without a romantic commitment.
A new chapter with Hamilton
The public nature of Kardashian and Hamilton’s relationship has nevertheless made it difficult for the pair to remain entirely outside the spotlight.
Their appearances together have generated considerable attention, while social media has offered occasional glimpses of their connection. HELLO! has reported on their public appearances, including a later date night at which the pair were seen sharing a kiss, as well as photographs Kardashian shared from their time together.
The interest is unsurprising given their individual profiles. Kardashian is one of the most recognizable figures to emerge from modern reality television and has expanded her influence into business and fashion. Hamilton’s career has made him one of the defining drivers of Formula 1’s modern era.
Their relationship also arrives at a point when Kardashian says she feels fundamentally different from the person who entered her previous marriage.
The five-year period she describes was not simply time spent waiting for another relationship. In her telling, it was time in which she learned to be comfortable without one.
“I really felt no rush,” she said.
That sentiment may ultimately be the most revealing part of her account. The story is not simply about Kardashian moving from Kanye West to Lewis Hamilton. It is about what she says happened in between: a period when she chose not to fill the space left by a major relationship, instead turning her attention toward her children, her work and herself.
Now, with Hamilton, the public is seeing a different phase of Kardashian’s personal life. The relationship has developed after years in which she says she deliberately kept romance at a distance.
And while the details of their relationship continue to attract headlines, Kardashian’s own explanation suggests that the most important part of the story may have happened before the romance began.
For her, being single was not merely an interval between two relationships. It was a period she says she needed—and one she believes ultimately allowed her to become ready for whatever came next.
Source and attribution: The original reporting is based primarily on Kim Kardashian’s interview with The Sunday Times, as reported by HELLO! and journalist Sharnaz Shahid. Details concerning Kardashian’s divorce, family, and relationship with Lewis Hamilton are retained and attributed to those published reports.
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