Kris Jenner’s late sister Karen Houghton was on team KimYe, and just before her niece Kim Kardashian got married, Kanye West declared it was a union that would “last forever.”
In a resurfaced video obtained by DailyMail.com, Houghton spoke on the eve of the wedding that took place in Florence on May 24, 2014.
Outside her home in San Marcos, San Diego, Houghton explained that while she wouldn’t be attending the lavish event, she was confident that, unlike her niece’s two previous marriages, “it’s going to last forever.”
Jenner’s younger sister Houghton, 68, was just 65 when she died unexpectedly on Monday. The circumstances are still unclear, but the family has attributed her death to “natural causes.”
DailyMail.com has obtained a resurfaced video of Kim Houghton speaking on the eve of her niece Kim and Kanye West’s 2014 wedding.
In the interview, he gushed about Kim and Kanye’s relationship and revealed that he had given them a statue of a “beautiful couple.”
Kim shared a photo of her teenage self sitting on a couch next to her aunt in a tribute posted after her death.
Jenner famously had a complicated relationship with Houghton who, 8 years ago, allowed cameras to document a grueling five-hour cosmetic procedure she underwent to look more like her famous sister.
Karen declared: ‘Happy Kim and Kanye.’ I love you guys. You guys are the best… and Nori is adorable, and I think it’s going to be a great, great wedding. Fabulous!’
Now, just days after her death, this video shows Houghton expressing her love for her entire family and her mistaken belief that her niece’s ultimately doomed marriage to rap star, record producer and designer Kanye was the one that finally happened. would maintain
At the time, the couple already had one child together: daughter North, now 10 years old. They would have three more, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 4, before divorcing in 2022.
Houghton, the family’s self-proclaimed “crazy relative,” gushed about Kim and Kanye’s relationship and revealed that she had gotten them what she mistakenly described as a “mammogram statue” of a “beautiful couple.”
He was referring to an engraved statue that he gave to the couple as a wedding gift.
She declared: ‘Happy Kim and Kanye.’ I love you guys. You guys are the best… and Nori is adorable, and I think it’s going to be a great, great wedding. Fabulous!’
She continued, “I hope you’re happy forever.” I think it will last forever. I only believe it because they love each other. She is more of Kim’s type (than her previous husbands, Kris Humphries and Damon Thomas).
The exact circumstances of his death are unclear, and county officials are attributing his death to natural causes for now. Kris and Karen appear in the photo.
Kim posted a series of photos in honor of her late aunt. A photo of her showed her as a baby with her aunt sitting behind her in a pool chair.
Kris Jenner shared snaps with her beloved sister and wrote, “It is with the deepest regret and deepest sadness that I share that my sister Karen passed away unexpectedly yesterday.”
In another statement that hasn’t aged well, he said, “I love Kanye.” He’s fine. He’s classy, he’s cool, he’s smart and I think he’ll go even further than he already has.”
In that assessment, at least, he was right.
While Kim and Kanye’s marriage failed after just eight years, he built his Yeezy clothing empire.
But lately the only direction he’s “gone further” seems to be surprising audiences with his new wife, 29-year-old Bianca Censori.
In September, Venice police investigated the couple when Kanye, 46, exposed his bare buttocks on a water taxi while Censori knelt before him, prompting accusations he was performing a lewd act.
For months, the rapper has been parading his young wife around a variety of shady venues (Starbucks, Cheesecake Factory) in a slew of X-rated outfits.
Ye and his new wife Bianca Censori have been seen roaming around Europe and Los Angeles, often wearing extravagant outfits.
It has been speculated that the increasingly scandalous outfits in which she has been seen (often braless and pantsless) are part of a ploy devised by the rapper to promote her own line of shapewear and dethrone the 43-year-old model. . old Kim’s hugely successful SKIMS.
Whatever the reason, the behavior has caused concern and outrage in the family of architect Censori.
Just this week, his father, Leo, reportedly demanded that the couple fly to Australia to address his parents’ concerns after his mother expressed fears about Kanye’s “intimidating” behavior during a recent visit to Los Angeles in early this month.
For her part, yesterday Kim shared a touching tribute to her late aunt, posting a series of intimate photos of them together during their youth and childhood on Instagram with the simple message: “I love you so much, Aunt Karen.”