Kim Kardashian finds her strained relationship with Kanye West "sad"

She reflected on the season seven premiere of The Kardashians: "I always felt like I had a bit of Stockholm syndrome [with Kanye].

"I always felt really bad and always protected and always wanted to help [him].

"[I'd think] 'I should've stuck it out' or 'I could've helped', [but] this was the first time I didn't feel that responsibility personally.

"It is so f****** sad."

Kim also dismissed the idea she has the "luxury of walking away and not dealing [with him] ever again" because she has to deal with his public allegations against her in relation to their children.

She said: "That's not my reality. This person - we have four kids together. It's very confusing, because it'll be all this talk on the internet of like, 'I'm keeping the kids.' He's never once called and asked [to see them].

"But then I'll wake up, and it's on Twitter that I'm keeping the kids.

"When it's not true and not rational, I just have to ... I can't engage all the time. It's a divorce - not a kidnapping."

The All's Fair star recently felt "pretty tested" by Kanye, which caused her so much stress she had a flare up of skin condition psoriasis.

She said: "I haven't had psoriasis since I got divorced, and it just started coming back.

"I mean, I have psoriasis again. I felt more stressed, probably just because I had to super, super protect what I had to protect."

The Skims founder was asked in a confessional what goes "through her mind" when Kanye behaves erratically and hse explained she is keen to "protect" her children as much as possible.

She said: "My poor kids. Everyone around can handle it, but like, protect my babies.

"They're gonna know things. They're gonna grow up, they're gonna see. So my job as a mom is to just make sure that - at a time when that behaviour is happening - is just to make sure that they're protected."