Kim Kardashian Addresses Feud Rumors with Larsa Pippen

Kim Kardashian is finally addressing speculation about her friendship with Larsa Pippen.

Kim, 45, was asked by her sister Khloé Kardashian on her podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land, about Pippen, 51, with whom she was once best friends with.

“I love Larsa,” Kim said simply. “I love her kids.”

She admitted, though, that she and Pippen “distanced ourselves for a little bit” while the Real Housewives of Miami star was “going through a divorce” from her husband of 21 years, Scottie Pippen. The exes finalized their divorce in 2022.

At the same time, Kim said she and her ex-husband, Kanye West, “were having some issues.”

As Khloé put it for her sister, the pair’s friendship “just fizzled,” and when Larsa moved to Miami, that exacerbated the distance.

“Yeah, and she moved to Miami, but I love her,” Kim said. “Our kids go to school together. We’ll always have so many memories and [there’s] so much love there.”

Khloé then revealed that she watches Larsa on RHOM, which took Kim by surprise. “You do?” she asked. “I love Housewives shows,” Khlioé said, and then Kim admitted she’s “never seen” any of the Bravo franchise, which Khloé told her is “crazy.”

Rumors of a feud between Larsa and Kim began in 2020, when Kim missed Larsa’s 46th birthday party — and then eagle-eyed fans noticed that the entire Kardashian-Jenner family had unfollowed Larsa on Instagram.

Larsa was quick to address the drama, as she wrote in a post on her Instagram Stories that she was “focused on my children, my new fitness brand Larsapippenfitness, and my relationships in real life.”

Larsa later put the blame on West, 48, for her and Kim’s estrangement. On a 2022 episode of Real Housewives of Miami, she addressed her relationship with Kim directly, as she revealed in a confessional, “I was best friends with Kim, and I love her, and I love Kanye, and I just was the person that was stuck in the middle.”

“I took a beating because I was the friend that was basically there and saw everything. And that basically was the demise of our relationship. I knew too much, I was a problem.”

Larsa confirmed that there’s “no beef” between her and Kim in 2022, as she told Access Hollywood, “We’re cool, we’re friends … If I see her out, obviously we’re going to speak, it’s not what people want it to be.”

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Kim is godmother to one of Larsa’s four kids — all of whom she shares with her ex-husband, Scottie, 60 — and the Bravo star recently said that her daughter Sophia, 17, “has a good relationship with Kim.”  

The Kardashian family as a whole is “loving” to Sophia, Larsa said, “so I feel like I don’t want to tarnish that. It’s fine.”