What All Of Kim Kardashian's Exes Have Said About Her

Since those carefree noughties days of being Paris Hilton's assistant, Kim Kardashian has built a multimillion dollar empire around her entire persona, not to mention her love life. Girls want to look like her and guys want to be with her. As such, there has been a seemingly never ending bevy of hunks desperate to slide into Kim K's DMs.

From the moment that infamous sex tape landed (and, if legend has it, mom Kris Jenner was the mastermind behind it), Kardashian has been a tabloid staple. Subsequently, her love life has come under intense scrutiny, with numerous former flings eager to dish on what it's like to get jiggy with Kimmie. All the while, however, Kardashian remains her own woman.

The reality TV star was recently praised by, of all people, British feminist writer Julie Burchill, who argued in The Spectator that Kardashian represents "a functioning matriarchy, where men come and go wearing the same baffled expression and the females have the final say." It is true that Kim K has never relied on a man to bolster her fame and wealth. These days, she is happy with unlikely lover Pete Davidson, of "Saturday Night Live" fame, who straight up admitted to People that he keeps a candle of his lady love in his room. By Kardashian's own admission, Davidson is also, to use Grandpa Simpson's lingo, a demon in the sack. But there's more to Kim K than Ye and Skete: here's what all of Kim Kardashian's exes have said about her.

Kim K's first husband, Damon Thomas was married to the star for four years, between 2000 and 2004. According to Thomas' interview with "VladTV," he first met Kardashian at Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch when she was a teen. "It was just young love, you know?" he said of falling for the then unknown beauty. Kardashian has since expressed immense regret about her relationship with Thomas, whom she wed in Vegas when she was a mere 19-years-old (the groom, meanwhile, was a decade older). Spilling the tea on her teen marriage during an episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," she claimed that she was high on ecstasy when she said "I do" back in 2000, per Grazia.

This didn't please Thomas one bit. While he prefaced his clap back by stating that he is proud of how far Kardashian has come, he ultimately branded his ex-wife irresponsible for the remarks. "Because it happened in the past, you can try to sweep it under the rug," he told VladTV. "But you don't stay married to somebody or be with somebody for four to five years and it's just based off you getting high off of ecstasy... That doesn't make any sense at all."

But it seems that Thomas shouldn't be so quick to judge his ex. As reported by Daily Mail, Kardashian also claimed that he abused her throughout their marriage, though her ex-husband denies this. "It's just absolutely not true," Thomas responded, per New York Daily News.

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Before he wed Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon dated Kim Kardashian circa 2006, per Independent. Since their break-up, Cannon has been candid with regards to his dalliance with the reality TV superstar. His song "My Side of the Story" offers some insight into their romance. Per Genius, he reveals that the pair hooked up after meeting on the set of "Moesha," where Kardashian worked as the actor turned rapper's stylist.

During an appearance on "Drink Champs," Cannon detailed how he got involved with Kardashian. In peak 2000s iconography, he explained that he would often hang out with Kardashian, Paris Hilton, and Lil Kim. "We were getting pretty serious back then," he recalled, noting that the lovers were torn apart when he learnt about the Ray J sex tape from the man himself (Ray would often tease him about his new lady love). Cannon claimed that Kardashian repeatedly denied the existence of the tape, which led to trust issues. "I was really into her, I was vibing," he said, adding, "Then, it started being these little rumors going around that there was this tape."

Cannon has also been shady when discussing his short-lived romance with Kardashian. When asked by "BigBoyTV" to name five famous women with whom he had sex, he mentioned that he had a fling with the reality mogul. "She forgot because there's been a lot of people since me," he snarkily remarked, quickly covering his tracks by adding, "She's a great girl, though."

During an appearance on "Hollywood Unlocked," Bow Wow dished the deets on his dalliance with Kim Kardashian. Calling his former lover "super dope," he revealed that he dated Kim K shortly before she met football star Reggie Bush in 2007. But he said that he felt pressured into keeping the fling a secret since he had never dated anyone outside his race before.

Chatting with "VladTV," he emphasized that he and Kardashian weren't in a serious relationship. In his elite LA circle, Bow Wow explained, it was near impossible to not have a run-in with the Kardashian clan. "It wasn't like we was going super hard," he said. "We was young and everybody was just having fun ... It wasn't a big deal." As with many of Kardashian's exes, he stressed that he has nothing but respect for the star, even if they did have a fleeting tryst.

Seeing as the Kimmie that Bow Wow knew wasn't the multimillionaire magnate she is today, the rapper noted that his onetime lady love had an evident entrepreneurial streak to her. "She's always been a hustler though," he enthused, highlighting Kardashian's influence on young women aspiring to be Instagram influencers in her unmistakable mold. "She laid down the blueprint, man. She's like the modern day, like, Marilyn Monroe," he added. Considering that Kardashian channeled Monroe at the 2022 Met Gala — damaging the famous figure-hugging gown in the process — her ex's words proved oddly prophetic.

In 2011, basketball player Kris Humphries married Kim Kardashian in a highly publicized wedding, per The Washington Post. The publicity surrounding the wedding was so extreme that it led to rumors that the pair's relationship was a sham orchestrated by the Kardashian clan. The Hollywood Reporter detailed all the ways in which the marriage, which lasted all but 72 days, was likely fake, including the whopping $1.5 million that People paid the newlyweds for their wedding snaps. 

"To me it was real," Humphries proclaimed to Access in 2012. Meanwhile, when asked by Good Morning America whether he was still in love with his ex-wife, he laughed and stated he was "focused on just what I can control."

In a 2019 essay for The Players Tribune, Humphries set the record straight, insisting that his marriage to Kim K was nothing less than authentic. The sports star said he fell in love with Kardashian and her immense fame was a mere coincidence. "Our actual relationship was 100% real. When it was clear that it wasn't working ... what can I say? It sucked," he wrote. "It's never easy to go through the embarrassment of something like that ... But when it plays out so publicly, in front of the world ... It was brutal." Detailing the detrimental effect of the constant negative media attention, the athlete said that he felt reduced to Mr. Kim Kardashian, and was no longer acknowledged for his skills on the basketball court.

There's no denying that Kim Kardashian has a thing for rappers. Yet another man included in her rap rendezvous repertoire is The Game. In a 2014 interview with BBC Radio (via E!), Game admitted that he casually dated Kardashian. "We went to McDonalds twice. Pulled up in a drive thru," he joked, before stating that he loves his ex and her then hubby Kanye West.

Appearing on "Wendy Williams," the rapper revealed that he slept with both Kim and her sister Khloe. When Williams pressed him to discuss his supposed lusty encounter with Kimmie, Game opted to remain a gent. "I'll tell you this: Kanye is a really good friend of mine, and they got really, really beautiful kids and I don't want to disrespect their family," he said.

While he was reluctant to divulge the specifics of his late night shenanigans with Kim K on Williams' family-friendly show, Game did dish the deets — via the almighty diss track. He has dedicated not one, but two tracks to trashing his former paramour. He first referenced their dalliance in the lyrics to "Sauce," in which he raps about, ahem, romancing three Kardashians, per Refinery29. In 2019, TMZ reported that he previewed a new song and reignited that invective towards Kim. We're not going to be repeating any of those NSFW lyrics, but suffice to say, things ended acrimoniously between the pair. Even the Daily Mail, famed for its arguably problematic sidebar of shame, dragged Game for his misogyny.