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Novak Djokovic’s father poses with fan wearing pro-Russia ‘Z’ symbol at the Australian Open
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The Australian Open told CNN it has “briefed and reminded” players and their entourages about the tournament’s “policy regarding flags and symbols” on Thursday after video emerged on Wednesday of Novak Djokovic’s father, Srdjan, pictured at a demonstration with fans holding Russian flags, voicing his support for Russia.
In a video posted on YouTube by a known Vladimir Putin supporter, the Serbian player’s father can be seen posing with a fan outside Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena. The man is wearing the “Z” symbol on his shirt, while holding a Russian flag with Putin’s face on it. “Long live the Russia,” he says.
The “Z” symbol is viewed as a sign of support for Russia, including its invasion of Ukraine. The symbol has been seen on Russian equipment and clothing in Ukraine.
“Players and their teams have been briefed and reminded of the event policy regarding flags and symbols and to avoid any situation that has the potential to disrupt,” an Australian Open spokesperson told CNN Thursday.
“We continue to work closely with event security and law enforcement agencies.”
The Australian Open spokesperson went on to say “a small group of people displayed inappropriate flags and symbols and threatened security guards following a match on Wednesday night and were evicted. One patron is now assisting police with unrelated matters.”
In a statement Friday that addressed criticism of his actions but stopped short of an apology, Srdjan Djokovic said he was in Melbourne “to support my son only,” and “had no intention of causing such headlines or disruption.”
“I was outside with Novak’s fans as I have done after all of my son’s matches to celebrate his wins and take pictures with them. I had no intention of being caught up in this,” he said.
“My family has lived through the horror of war, and we wish only for peace.”
He added that he would watch his son’s semifinal match against US star Tommy Paul from home on Friday “so there is no disruption … for my son or for the other player.”
Novak Djokovic will not be commenting on the situation, his management told CNN.
Earlier Friday, Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia had urged the player to state his position on the war, saying the incident with his father had amounted to a “provocation” and “shines a negative light on Novak himself as he prepares for his semi-final.”
“I think for him to dispel the speculation it’s important to make a very strong statement about where he stands on this war, and I would like to see an apology from Novak Djokovic,” Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Myroshnychenko told CNN.
“Of course, the son cannot be responsible for the sins of his father, but maybe he has the same opinion as his father. I think the world should know where he stands.”
Tennis Australia has confirmed that four people were ejected from the tournament on Wednesday for displaying pro-war imagery.
According to the Australian Open rules Russian and Belarusian flags are banned from the event.
Tennis Australia has a “neutral flag” policy and has re-emphasized it policy amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hidden Magma Chamber Reaching Critical Point ‘Poses Serious Threat’
A giant magma chamber has been discovered growing underneath an active submarine volcano in Greece.
Scientists, who have published a study on the chamber in the American Geophysical Union’s Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, have determined that the magma chamber under Kolumbo increases the chances of a future eruption. They believe it could reach a critical point in the next 150 years and pose a “serious threat.”
Kolumbo last erupted in 1650 C.E. During this eruption, the explosion breached the sea surface and killed 70 people. This eruption occurred after magma reservoirs beneath the volcano continued to grow and accumulate at a large scale.
Scientists believe that this previously undiscovered magma chamber is growing at an average rate of roughly 4 million cubic meters per year since the submarine volcano last erupted. The amount of melt in there is now 1.4 cubic kilometers, the study reported.
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It is now reaching a similar volume that caused the 1650 eruption, meaning another large one may be around the corner as its rate of growth counteracts its cooling and crystallization processes.
Although scientists are not able to predict the exact time of the next Kolumbo eruption, they are now calling on better monitoring facilities near the volcano.
The magma chamber was discovered using full-waveform inversion technology, which records ground motions and analyzes wave velocities near volcanoes. Magma chambers can be detected by a reduced velocity of seismic waves traveling beneath the seafloor, the study reported.
Michele Paulatto, a volcanologist at Imperial College London, U.K., and second author of the study, said in a press release: “Full-waveform inversion is similar to a medical ultrasound. It uses sound waves to construct an image of the underground structure of a volcano.”
Nia Schamuells and Michele Paulatto
The study—prior to which detailed data was unavailable—helps inform scientists about submarine volcanoes in the region.
Kolumbo could potentially produce a highly explosive eruption. Scientists compare it to the recent eruption of Hunga Tonga, which last erupted in January 2022 and caused tsunami waves up to 66 feet high.
Scientists report that a Kolumbo eruption could be more destructive than the recent Tonga eruption due to its close proximity to Santorini—which is a well-known tourist destination. Popular hotspots on the island are only 4 miles from the volcano.
As the volcano is also in a shallow area of the sea, lying 1,600 feet below the surface of the ocean, this could make the explosion even bigger.
Underwater volcanoes like this have the potential to cause destructive tsunami waves as well as ashfall.
Although an explosion does not appear imminent, the findings of the study show scientists that the area needs increased monitoring.
“We need better data on what’s actually beneath these volcanoes,” Kajetan Chrapkiewicz, a geophysicist at Imperial College London and lead author of the study, said in a press release. “Continuous monitoring systems would allow us to have a better estimation of when an eruption might occur. With these systems, we would likely know about an eruption a few days before it happens, and people would be able to evacuate and stay safe.”
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Hidden Magma Chamber Reaching Critical Point ‘Poses Serious Threat’
A giant magma chamber has been discovered growing underneath an active submarine volcano in Greece.
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Scientists, who have published a study on the chamber in the American Geophysical Union’s Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, have determined that the magma chamber under Kolumbo increases the chances of a future eruption. They believe it could reach a critical point in the next 150 years and pose a “serious threat.”
Kolumbo last erupted in 1650 C.E. During this eruption, the explosion breached the sea surface and killed 70 people. This eruption occurred after magma reservoirs beneath the volcano continued to grow and accumulate at a large scale.
Scientists believe that this previously undiscovered magma chamber is growing at an average rate of roughly 4 million cubic meters per year since the submarine volcano last erupted. The amount of melt in there is now 1.4 cubic kilometers, the study reported.
It is now reaching a similar volume that caused the 1650 eruption, meaning another large one may be around the corner as its rate of growth counteracts its cooling and crystallization processes.
Although scientists are not able to predict the exact time of the next Kolumbo eruption, they are now calling on better monitoring facilities near the volcano.
The magma chamber was discovered using full-waveform inversion technology, which records ground motions and analyzes wave velocities near volcanoes. Magma chambers can be detected by a reduced velocity of seismic waves traveling beneath the seafloor, the study reported.
Michele Paulatto, a volcanologist at Imperial College London, U.K., and second author of the study, said in a press release: “Full-waveform inversion is similar to a medical ultrasound. It uses sound waves to construct an image of the underground structure of a volcano.”
© Nia Schamuells and Michele Paulatto
A graphic shows how the magma chamber, hiding under the volcano works. Although scientists are not able to predict the exact time of the next Kolumbo eruption, they are now calling on better monitoring facilities near the volcano. Nia Schamuells and Michele Paulatto
The study—prior to which detailed data was unavailable—helps inform scientists about submarine volcanoes in the region.
Kolumbo could potentially produce a highly explosive eruption. Scientists compare it to the recent eruption of Hunga Tonga, which last erupted in January 2022 and caused tsunami waves up to 66 feet high.
Scientists report that a Kolumbo eruption could be more destructive than the recent Tonga eruption due to its close proximity to Santorini—which is a well-known tourist destination. Popular hotspots on the island are only 4 miles from the volcano.
As the volcano is also in a shallow area of the sea, lying 1,600 feet below the surface of the ocean, this could make the explosion even bigger.
Underwater volcanoes like this have the potential to cause destructive tsunami waves as well as ashfall.
Although an explosion does not appear imminent, the findings of the study show scientists that the area needs increased monitoring.
“We need better data on what’s actually beneath these volcanoes,” Kajetan Chrapkiewicz, a geophysicist at Imperial College London and lead author of the study, said in a press release. “Continuous monitoring systems would allow us to have a better estimation of when an eruption might occur. With these systems, we would likely know about an eruption a few days before it happens, and people would be able to evacuate and stay safe.”
Do you have a tip on a science story that Newsweek should be covering? Do you have a question about volcanoes? Let us know via science@newsweek.com.
References
Chrapkiewicz at el, “Magma chamber detected beneath an arc volcano with full-waveform inversion of active-source seismic data”, Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems, January 2023, 10.1029/2022GC010475
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Swimming in Open Water Poses a Serious Risk Few People Know About : ScienceAlert
People love to swim in open water, with more than 3 million participating in England in 2021. But a new study warns there is evidence linking the sport to a lung condition called swimming-induced pulmonary edema (SIPE).
Age, long swims, cold water, being female, and high blood pressure or heart disease are risk factors. Doctors stress that SIPE often happens to otherwise healthy people, making it hard for swimmers to breathe and depriving them of oxygen.
The precise cause of SIPE is not fully understood, but it happens when fluid builds up in the lungs without the person taking in water. The person usually experiences severe shortness of breath, low oxygen levels, and a wet cough.
The risk of SIPE while swimming in open water isn’t well known either, but it is likely to be uncommon, report cardiologists from the Royal United Hospitals Bath and the University of Bath, UK, after treating a woman with the condition.
“First reported in 1989, its incidence is likely underreported and has been estimated between 1.1 percent and 1.8 percent”, the authors write in their case report.
Once a person experiences a bout of SIPE, however, their chances of developing the condition again rise substantially.
“Recurrence is common and has been reported between 13 percent and 22 percent among scuba divers and swimmers. Episodes vary in severity and frequently do not require hospitalization; however, patients should be appropriately informed regarding the high risk of recurrence, and following an initial episode, should be assumed to have a predisposition,” the authors write.
The case study reports an important finding: the heart and the lungs can be affected in SIPE, as seen in the case of a woman in her 50s who swam long distances, did triathlons, and had no major health problems in the past.
While swimming during an open-water event, she became short of breath and had to stop swimming, feeling breathless for days afterward.
The patient swam 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) with no issues the following weekend, but a week later, the breathlessness returned after 300 meters, and this time she was coughing up blood.
She had been swimming in a wetsuit at night in 17 °C (63 °F) water.
“While swimming in a quarry at a night swim, I started to hyperventilate and realized I couldn’t swim any further. Luckily, I was able to call for help and got guided back to the quay by a paddleboard,” the woman said after recovering.
“When I got out, I undid my wetsuit and immediately felt the sensation of my lungs filling with fluid. I started to cough and had a metallic taste in my mouth. When I got into the light, I could see my sputum was pink and frothy.”
She was taken to the hospital, where her breathlessness continued, her heart rate was fast, and she had a persistent cough. During a clinical exam, small lung sounds that can indicate fluid in the lungs were observed, and a chest x-ray confirmed the presence of fluid.
Blood tests revealed higher-than-usual levels of troponin, a protein found in muscle that can be released into the blood following heart damage. An MRI indicated myocardial edema – swelling in heart muscle that can be attributed to fluid – and signs of possible fibrosis, which suggests tissue damage.
The patient’s heart and lungs appeared otherwise normal, and her symptoms and heart rate settled within 2 hours of arriving at the hospital.
Four days later, the patient’s troponin levels returned to normal. A clinical review showed her lung and heart functions were normal, although a small amount of fibrosis remained.
Three months after the incident, she completed an exercise test without any cause for concern.
Although this is just one case of SIPE, the team says it is the first published evidence of myocardial edema arising from swimming that has been documented using cardiac MRI. That should help doctors treating the condition know what to look for while also raising awareness amongst cold-water swimmers of what can happen.
Although more research is needed, SIPE is likely caused by changes in blood flow and a stronger response of the lung’s blood vessels to cold when exercising. People with thickening of the wall of their heart’s main pumping chamber, structural heart disease, or high blood pressure are more likely to get SIPE.
Cardiologist James Oldman and co-authors say patients who experience breathlessness while swimming should be tested for SIPE. They also recommend doctors undertake a thorough investigation of the circulatory system to look for any heart problems that should resolve within a few days, like other symptoms.
“As cardiac MRI becomes mainstream globally, it is likely that more data from [immersion pulmonary edema] cases will emerge, enabling us to characterize myocardial pathology better in this under-diagnosed syndrome,” the authors write.
For swimmers who experience symptoms, the researchers’ advice is to leave the water immediately and seek medical help if needed. Avoiding non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and swimming at a slower pace in warmer water without a tight wetsuit are other ways they suggest swimmers can minimize the risk of recurrence.
The peer-reviewed findings have been published in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
Sinema’s switch was months in making. Now it poses a challenge for Democrats.
The unhappiness has run in both directions and loomed over Sinema’s political future, prompting some critics to see a calculated ploy for survival in Sinema’s announcement. She is unpopular with Democrats back home following some high-profile party-line defections. Polls also suggested she could lose a Democratic primary if she sought reelection in 2024 — a hurdle she would no longer need to clear as an independent.
Now Sinema, 46, has caused what many see as the first big potential political earthquake in the battle for the Senate in 2024. Her shift is the latest of several reinventions throughout her career, as she has climbed the ladder from Green Party activist to state and eventually federal lawmaker with far less liberal positions. Although she has not said whether she will run for a second term, Sinema’s most recent conversion carries significant ramifications in a key battleground.
“There are certainly some who have wanted me to fit into one box or the other,” Sinema said in an interview. “But I have never wanted to do that.”
Sinema had been weighing a departure from the Democratic Party for months, people familiar with the timing said. By the fall, planning was underway, even before she appeared in late September at the University of Louisville McConnell Center, where she defended her centrist brand of politics — and further enraged some liberals — with the Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, looking on.
McConnell advises Sinema frequently, according to a person familiar with their relationship, and the two spoke about her decision to defend the legislative filibuster and other matters. “She and I talk all the time,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday.
High-ranking Democrats said they remained in the dark until just before she pulled the trigger. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) learned she would be leaving the party the day before she announced it, he said recently. White House aides have declined to say whether President Biden received a heads up, or how he reacted when he was told she would not be joining him on Air Force One for his visit to Arizona a few days before she broke the news. (Biden said at the time that Sinema needed to stay in Washington to work on legislation, calling her a “tremendous advocate” for Arizona.)
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) declined to say whether Sinema warned him that she was leaving the party and, like most Democrats, did not answer a question about whether he would support her if she runs for reelection as an independent. “You are getting into hypotheticals,” he said last Monday. “But I have worked very closely with her for a long period of time.”
A marathon runner and triathlete who has broken the mold of the typical senator, Sinema often eschewed Democratic events and meetings, frequently setting up her own bipartisan negotiations with Republicans and centrists on legislation. The first openly bisexual person to serve in the Senate, her latest negotiation resulted in federal legislation to protect same-sex couples that attracted 12 Republican votes in the Senate.
“She’s always been an independent thinker,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn). “This seems like this changes the letter next to her name and not much else.”
Where some have seen a maverick streak in line with Arizona’s history of rewarding political independence, others have seen a betrayal in her disconnect from local party officials and activists who supported her election as a Democrat as she sought her Senate seat.
“There has been zero engagement since she got elected,” Stephen Slugocki, a former chair of the Maricopa County Democratic Party, said of the senator and her team. “No relationship. They haven’t been involved in anything — they’ve lost all communication. People feel disappointed that they worked hard to elect her and this is what they’ve got in return.”
For her part, Sinema has said that her decision is not political and that she has not yet made a decision about whether she will seek reelection, even as she has filed paperwork to run. She declined to pinpoint a specific moment when she decided to change her party ID.
“I’ve always been independent,” Sinema said. “I can’t point you to any specific instance because there isn’t one.”
‘She told us who she was going to be’
A former social worker, Sinema entered politics not as a Democrat, but as a member of the Green Party, where she worked as a spokesperson and organized antiwar protests.
Records obtained by The Washington Post show that after losing a bid for city council, she registered as an independent voter, joining the growing ranks of Arizonans without a political home. She then pursued a seat in the state legislature as an independent affiliated with the Green Party, but lost.
By 2004, she had registered as a Democrat, won a seat in the state House and displayed a liberal streak in a legislature dominated by Republicans. Over time, she moved to the center and forged relationships across the spectrum.
“My first legislative session was a bust,” she wrote in her 2009 book, “Unite and Conquer: How to Build Coalitions That Win and Last.”
She continued, “I’d spent all my time being a crusader for justice, a patron saint for lost causes, and I’d missed out on the opportunity to form meaningful relationships.”
Republicans, she wrote, were a “discipline machine” on messaging their priorities while liberals were too “free-flowing,” to their detriment. “This is not home decorating — you do not need a flourish,” she wrote, adding, “winning is the best flourish of all.”
She adhered to that approach after clinching a toss-up seat in the U.S. House in 2012, where she was known as one of the chamber’s most moderate Democrats, and again during a bitter campaign in 2018 for an open U.S. Senate seat. Sinema rarely described herself as a Democrat. Instead, she told voters, her focus would be to “get stuff done.”
But her first few years in Washington were a disappointment to many Democrats, even though she rarely strayed from the party line. She voted to confirm William P. Barr as attorney general and David Bernhardt as interior secretary during Donald Trump’s presidency, earning her condemnation from party activists.
In an evenly-divided Senate, Sinema, along with Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va), torpedoed Democrats’ $3.5 trillion climate and social spending “Build Back Better” plan, objecting to its price tag. (She eventually supported a $1.7 trillion version, after demanding changes to a proposed tax for private equity executives that angered some liberals.)
“I don’t think she went there thinking she was going to be a traditional Washington Democrat,” said Kirk Adams, a Republican and Sinema friend and former chief of staff to Gov. Doug Ducey (R). “She told us who she was going to be.”
Sinema has largely shunned the Arizona Democratic Party and its apparatus. She routinely skipped party conventions and fundraising dinners, an approach some liberal activists hoped would change after they helped elect her to the Senate.
By early 2021, anger with Sinema among Democrats boiled over after her vote to keep an increase in the federal minimum wage out of a pandemic relief package — which she cast with a conspicuous thumbs down motion — and her continued opposition to eliminating the Senate’s legislative filibuster, which requires 60 votes for most legislation to pass.
She posted a photo of herself on social media last year drinking sangria and wearing a ring she bought from a local boutique that read “F— off.”
Fury at Sinema was reflected at the very top of the state party. Brianna Westbrook, an official with the party, tweeted that Sinema was a “villain that is opposed to democracy” last year when she opposed getting rid of the filibuster, and encouraged her staff to quit their jobs. Other party officials amplified criticism of her online.
Angry protesters confronted her at Arizona State University last year over her Build Back Better objections, following her into a bathroom while recording her on a phone. She was also confronted on a plane and at airports. Previously unguarded, she began traveling with security guards. Campaign finance records show her campaign has spent thousands of dollars for security that extends to her Phoenix home.
Former staffers and associates, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations or offer candid assessments, said the confrontations frustrated her. One Sinema ally vented that party leadership — including the White House — could have done more to head it off.
Biden sometimes vented his frustration with Sinema’s opposition to Build Back Better. “I was able to close the deal with 99 percent of my party,” he said last year. He held up two fingers: “Two. Two people.” Asked about recent protests targeting Sinema and Manchin, which included the bathroom confrontation, he called them not appropriate but said “it happens to everybody.”
Sinema downplayed the significance of the relative silence from Democrats as she faced blowback. “I’m not sure it’s particularly relevant to me or to my thinking,” she said in the interview. “I’m perfectly capable of standing up for myself.”
Yet those close to Sinema have complained to allies that she has not gotten credit for her legislative accomplishments — including those her Democratic colleagues ran on during the midterm elections, such as the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan and gun control legislation that she played a key role in negotiating.
John LaBombard, Sinema’s former spokesperson, said partisan pressure was “pulling the Democratic Party and its leadership closer to the extremes in a way that was undermining her work to get bipartisan, lasting things done.”
Though Sinema is friendly with her Democratic colleagues, many of her warmest relationships in the Senate are with Republicans, such as outgoing Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio) whom she called “one of my closest friends in the world” in a recent speech, and Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.).
During the height of the blowback Sinema received back home, Tillis wrote an op-ed defending her and comparing her to former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). “While I may have fielded some angry messages from constituents a few years ago, Sinema has been on the receiving end of a full-on assault from activists across the country,” he wrote.
‘The Mount Rushmore of Arizona politicos’
Allies in Arizona have long suspected that Sinema would cut ties with the Democratic Party, but even they were surprised by her timing.
“I know her pretty well, and certainly I thought she might [leave] someday, but I didn’t think she would do it now,” said John Graham, a Republican businessman.
Many Democrats said they believe Sinema saw the writing on the wall: Polls showing a low approval rating for her among Democrats, and some limited surveys suggesting Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who has said he’s been preparing to run for her Senate seat, could best her in a Democratic primary.
Sinema’s decision left Democrats and Republicans scrambling to size up potential 2024 primary campaigns that could evolve into chaotic, crowded contests. Sinema, meanwhile, has filed paperwork for a 2024 bid as a politically unaffiliated candidate and has an $8 million war chest.
Some Democrats believe that if she runs for reelection as an independent, she’s effectively daring the Democratic Party to field a candidate against her and risk splitting the liberal vote, boosting a Republican candidate to victory. Such an outcome would represent a final stick in the eye to those who’ve resented her unapologetic flouting of some Democratic priorities.
“Is she willing to be the spoiler?,” asked Sacha Haworth, who briefly worked for Sinema during her 2018 Senate bid and is now advising a political action committee seeking to defeat her. “Is she the one who is going to be willing to hand the seat over to a Republican?”
Sinema’s path to victory would be a difficult one, observers said.
“Even if she’s an underdog as an independent — which I think she probably is — she looks at it as, ‘Well, if I fail, I’m supposed to fail as an independent and at least I tried,’” theorized Democratic consultant Adam Kinsey, who did not claim any insight into her thinking. “‘But if I succeed and actually get elected as an independent United States senator from Arizona, I will have blazed a trail for every elected official who wants to run outside of the two-party system in Arizona.”
He added: “She would be on the Mount Rushmore of Arizona politicos if that happened. Will it happen? Probably not.”
Matt Viser contributed to this report.
Vera Wang Poses With Her Daughters in a Rare Family Photo for Thanksgiving
Vera Wang, known for her iconic wedding dresses, chic and contemporary style, and inexplicable ability to defy aging, gave fans a rare glimpse into her family life this Thanksgiving. The designer shared three photos on Instagram of herself standing alongside her “squad” — which included daughters, Cecilia, 32, and Josephine, 29 — cooking up what looks to be an absolutely delicious Thanksgiving feast.
“Girls just wanna have fun…. …to my squad. Cecilia for the beautiful table scapes Josephine for the cheddar cheese crusted apple pie and Sin for her much beloved TURKEY DINNER,” Wang, 72, captioned the set of photos. Even in a somewhat oversized black apron and matching chef’s hat, Wang manages to look as stylish as ever. Her daughters stand on each side of their mom, giving the camera a small smile.
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Wang also took a quick break from cooking Thanksgiving dinner to show off the bottom half of her outfit: a silky silver skirt with a slit up the middle, revealing thigh-high, floral-patterned boots with a stilettoed heel. Just another day in the kitchen, no big deal!
Of course, Wang also shared a glimpse of her family’s Thanksgiving table setting, which her daughter Cecilia put together. Clearly, she has inherited her mother’s classic but contemporary style. The plates are neutral-toned and delicately rimmed with gold, and they sat neatly on top of a simple black place setting. A crystal wine and water glass were set at each seat, and a short crystal vase housed a small bouquet of white roses in the center of the table.
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Wang’s daughters usually stay out of the spotlight. The designer and her ex-husband Arthur P. Becker adopted both Cecilia and Josephine during their 23-marriage, which came to an end in 2012. As far Wang’s approach to parenting, it is as effortlessly chic sounding as you’d expect. She told Harper’s Bazaar that she had a more “hippie” approach than her own mom, and that she wanted her girls to be able to grow up however they wanted to: “I don’t live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.”
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How North the rising star stole couture fashion week: Kim Kardashian’s girl, 9, poses for paparazzi
Season 2 of The Kardashians ended with a new star rising within the family: Kim Kardashian’s nine-year-old daughter North West.
North, the oldest of Kim’s four children with ex-husband Kanye West along with Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3, accompanied her 41-year-old mother on a trip to Paris for Couture Fashion Week.
There she stole the show outside their hotel, as adoring fans started screaming her name, while getting styled by top French designers and even showing up would-be photographers with a literal ‘Stop’ sign in the front row of the Jean-Paul Gaultier fashion show.
Rising star: Season 2 of The Kardashians ended with a new star rising within the family: Kim Kardashian’s nine-year-old daughter North West
Front row: There she stole the show outside their hotel, as adoring fans started screaming her name, while getting styled by top French designers and even showing up would-be photographers with a literal ‘Stop’ sign in the front row of the Jean-Paul Gaultier fashion show
While Kim was getting ready for the Balenciaga fashion show, North and her BFF Ryan (Tracy Romulus’ daughter) headed outside of the hotel, where throngs of fans were waiting and started cheering for them.
Both North and Ryan couldn’t help but laugh, as fans are seen waving at both of them, before a giddy North headed back up to her room.
‘There was a whole crowd for me and they were yelling me,’ North says, and when Kim asks what they said, North starts a little dance and says, ‘North! North!’
Cheer: While Kim was getting ready for the Balenciaga fashion show, North and her BFF Ryan (Tracy Romulus’ daughter) headed outside of the hotel, where throngs of fans were waiting and started cheering for them
Kris says, ‘They were screaming, it was so fun. We should both walk out there next time,’ as she’s seen walking out with her granddaughter.
‘It’s so special to be able to travel with my mom. I never want to take these times for granted and I also knows she’s like the best grandma and know she wants to show North everything while I’m working,’ Kim says.
Kris and North both walk out together and wave to the crowd, as Kim says in confession she wasn’t sure who was more excited, Kris or North.
Everything: ‘It’s so special to be able to travel with my mom. I never want to take these times for granted and I also knows she’s like the best grandma and know she wants to show North everything while I’m working,’ Kim says
Later in the episode, North attends the Jean-Paul Gaultier fashion show with Kim and the rest of the family, where one of her antics had Kim in stitches.
‘I just love when North is feeling herself. The glasses, the hat, I’m so happy that she’s loving this experience. That just makes me happy. What a lucky girl, honestly,’ Kim says.
Kim added, ‘they put invites on each seat, and she took the pen out of Cici’s purse and she wrote STOP really big on the invite and she just held it up to the people across from her, just being like, ‘Do not take a picture of me,’ and I was dying.’
Stitches: Later in the episode, North attends the Jean-Paul Gaultier fashion show with Kim and the rest of the family, where one of her antics had Kim in stitches
The Season 2 finale began in Paris with Kim, North, Ryan (Tracy Romulus’ daughter and North’s friend), Kris Jenner, Corey Gamble and cousin Cici arriving in Paris on Kim’s private jet.
‘We are in Paris for Couture Fashion week,’ Kim says in confession, with Kris adding, ‘Yes we are,’ as we see hordes of fans waiting for various models.
Kim adds in a solo confession, ‘I am here to walk in the Balenciaga Couture fashion show. I’ve never done this before.’
Kris adds that Paris is one of her favorite cities in the world, saying, ‘it’s magic.’
While they’re in their vehicle being driven to the hotel, Kris asks North when was the last time she was in Paris.
‘I was six years old,’ North says, as Kris recalls, ‘When you performed,’ as they show flashback footage of North singing on stage at Kanye’s fashion show.
A confused Cici asks, ‘Wait, when did she perform?’ as Kim responds, ‘At her dad’s fashion show. She loved it. She was not nervous to perform and was on stage in front of a lot of people.’
Kim adds in confession, ‘I really wanted to bring North on this trip because I really enjoy what I do, and I want my kids to grow up really loving what they do and finding their passion and finding out how to make a business out of that.’
Back in the car, Kim starts running down their tight schedule – ‘Eiffel Tower at 1:30, Lunch at 2:30, fitting at 3:30,’ as Kris can’t help but laugh.
Back in dual confession, Kris regales us with one of her, ‘favorite stories’ from the first time they were both in Paris for a media tour back in 2007, when they, ‘decided to walk to Gucci.’
They show footage from that incident, as a French man is heard asking Kim to blow her a kiss, but when Kris continues to tell the story in confession, Kim interjects: ‘Mom, this sounds like the brattiest story.’
‘Well, let me just tell it. It’s the truth. It doesn’t mean we were lying or anything,’ Kris says, adding, ‘We decided to walk to a different store, and there must have been 100 photographers and for some reason, I trip.’
The footage shows Kris tripping on sidewalk, as she adds in confession, ‘And I do a faceplant right on the cobblestones.’
‘I scraped my leg and I was so upset and so nervous and she knew how nervous I was gonna be, I was shaking,’ Kris adds in confession.
‘And Kim looks up at these guys and goes, ‘Don’t anybody take a picture of my mom!’ Kris says as they show flashback footage of Kim telling photographers, ‘If you got any pictures of her, you have to delete it.’
‘It’s one of my first Paris memories with Kim,’ Kris adds in confession, as they head back into their vehicle briefly before the show cuts back to Los Angeles.
Kylie Jenner is seen getting her possible looks ready for the Billboard Awards in Las Vegas, with her stylists Alexandra Grandquist and Mackenzie Grandquist.
Kylie tells them, ‘I’m not performing or anything. I’m not performing… at that event, I’m just going to support Trav(is Scott).’
‘I just got back from New York from the Met and now I’m in my fitting, getting ready to go to the Billboard Awards to support Travis,’ Kylie adds in confession.
Kylie and her stylists go over a number of looks, including a painted flesh tone bodysuit and a metallic blue gown.
She tries on a ‘naked print’ dress that zips up the back, which Kylie says is, ‘Cool,’ adding, ‘It’s more like wearable.’
‘I love the second dress, the Balmain. I just like how it cinches me in, I feel comfortable,’ Kylie adds in confession, while, at the fitting, Kylie asks if Balmain, ‘has shoes.’
She adds in confession, ‘It definitely takes me awhile, after I have a baby, to get back into it,’ referring to her second child with Travis Scott, who she had at the start of Season 2.
‘I’m still a mom, but I’m also so young. These are the years that I’m supposed to be naked, everywhere, in the streets… on a beach somewhere, with my t*****s out, a** out, f**k yeah,’ Kylie adds in confession, as a producer says she’s her, ‘new most fun interview.’
Kylie tells her stylists that she feels comfortable and she’s, ‘not worried about my t*t falling out,’ adding, ‘I like the vibe.’
‘Now I feel beautiful and I’m just excited for this,’ she adds in confession, while telling the camera crew, ‘I’ll see you guys in Vegas.’
The episode cuts back to Paris, where Kim is getting ready, adding, ‘It’s gonna be a long two days. I haven’t been this nervous in a long time.’
Her hairstylist Chris asks if she’s going to do a ‘serious face’ like a real model and Kim says, ‘I’m not gonna go up there and laugh.’
Meanwhile, North comes in, wearing a new black outfit with chains and a special touch – her father Kanye West’s old jacket.
Serious: Her hairstylist Chris asks if she’s going to do a ‘serious face’ like a real model and Kim says, ‘I’m not gonna go up there and laugh’
Kim explains – while getting her makeup done – ‘He wore it to perform here and to win an award,’ as Chris asks, ‘I wonder if they’ll know.’
Kim insists, ‘Of course they’ll know. It’s gonna be a huge fashion moment,’ as they show a side-by-side of Kim and North wearing the jacket.
‘Kanye tends to not care about his stuff and gives it all away, and it ended up on the internet and I got it last week. Now Kanye knows that I’m so protective of his stuff for the kids,’ Kim explains.
She adds, ‘Even now, when he was at the height of not speaking with me and being angry with me, he won a few Grammys and I still reached out and was like, ‘I know you just won a few Grammys, gotta add em to the vault.’
She said he agreed, adding, ‘Because the kids want em, and I want em all together so I have em all together.’
North tells Kim, ‘Mom, we don’t wanna be late. You’re probably gonna be late,’ as Kim tells her, ‘I promise I’m not gonna be late. We’re rushing.’
Down in the hotel lobby, Kris says that they are still waiting on Kim and she has given them, ‘a five-minute warning about seven times now.’
Kris is in the confessional waiting for Kim, saying she had, ‘a hard out a couple of minutes ago so I have time for like one or two questions’ as Kim arrives.
‘There’s a lot going on. There’s a lot of moving parts. You have to have a lot of energy, but you have to have a lot of patience, and patience isn’t my strong…’ Kris says, as Kim immediately says, ‘No it’s not.’
‘And I hope that I don’t learn that. I hope I don’t inherit that,’ as Kris adds, ‘Oh, honey, you already did. Trust me.’
‘But if there’s anything that stresses me out, it’s Kris Jenner. That is the one thing is this life that stresses me out,’ Kim says.
Down in the lobby, Kris says, ‘They just keep me at this jetlag level so my energy isn’t all the way up so I can’t go crazy.’
They are all seen leaving the hotel as photographers snap away, as Kris points out the Eiffel Tower.
Leaving: They are all seen leaving the hotel as photographers snap away, as Kris points out the Eiffel Tower
Kris adds in confession that she can relate, ‘a little bit, to what Kim’s doing these days. I was always able to spend a lot of time with my first… litter of kids, Kourtney, Kimberly, Khloe, Rob, and then when I had Kendall and Kylie, I was working, so I can understand that balance. And that life balance is important for anyone who’s raising a family… and Kim really does it all on another level.’
The family meets with fashion designer Olivier Rousteing, as Kim adds she will also be attending the Jean-Paul Gaultier Couture show, which her, ‘good friend’ Rousteing is designing the collection for.
‘He is going to dress me and my mom and North,’ Kim adds in confession, while telling North that she has known Olivier, ‘since before you were a baby.’
‘He gave daddy this blue dress that daddy wanted for me, it was my birthday, the year before you were born. I wore the dress and I got pregnant and you got in my belly the night I wore that dress. So Olivier might have a little something to do with the reason you’re on this planet,’ Kim tells North.
Kim adds in confession that each of her four children gets, ‘at least one trip with me a year, and North loves this. She’s here with her mom and her grandmom.’
Both Kim and North go to try on their looks, as North comes out with a black-and-white schoolgirl outfit, as Olivier says, ‘You look so good. You like it or not?’
‘I like it,’ North says quietly, while, in confession, a producer asks if North being on this trip is, ‘like teaching her a lot of what your mom taught you.’
‘It just also shows my daughter the work I’m putting in. There is a whole business behind it so I like to show her that like this is still fun for me. Work could be fun,’ Kim says.
Kim walks out in her black dress with silver bracelets and a silver choker, including a nose ring chain that connects to the choker.
Kim asks if they have another so North could wear one too, and they find one as Kim and North pose in their outfits with designer Olivier.
Kim gives Olivier a hug and says that both her and North love their looks and she cannot wait for the show.
Back in Los Angeles, Kourtney and Travis’ blended family all gather for dinner.
‘Our family is growing and expanding and we have so much to be thankful for,’ Kourtney says in confession, while Travis and his 18-year-old son Landon practice sliding and catching a glass water bottle across the table.
‘I love the idea of a blended family. I think the more kids the merrier. You have all these siblings and more people to love, and it’s a beautiful thing,’ Kourtney says in confession… as they show all of the kids – Kourtney’s Penelope, 10 and Reign, 7 and Travis’ Landon, Alabama, 16 and stepdaughter Atiana, 23 – are all on their phones… with even Travis checking his phone.
‘Guys, should we have a no technology rule?’ Kourtney asks, as Travis says, ‘OK, when the food gets here, you guys gotta put down your phones.
Atiana pushes her phone into the middle of the table and Travis says he’s going to make this a rule for every dinner he has with her.
Kourtney puts her phone and Travis’ phone on a table away from their dinner table, and Landon says they can take his phone too, as Travis says, ‘I love that, Lan.’
Kourtney adds in confession, ‘Travis is so passionate about life. He’s a really amazing father. I love that because we’ve all known each other for 10 years and all of the kids have had so many memories with each other that it just feels so good to continue to have the best time together.’
Reign says they’re going to do the ‘Peak and Pit’ – where everyone at the dinner table shares their high point and low point of the day.
Kourtney shares that her peak was having matcha with Travis but her pit explained why her oldest son Mason, 12, wasn’t joining them at dinner.
‘Mason has friends over and wouldn’t come to dinner,’ Kourtney explains, while Reign tries to tell a joke and Penelope tells him, ‘No one is laughing,’ but Reign says, ‘I know.’
Reign says it’s Travis’ turn and he says his peak was having matcha but his pit was, ‘Not being, ironically, at the spa on the cleanse.’
They wrap up as Landon thanks everyone for dinner while Kourtney thanks the chefs and says everything was amazing.
‘I just think it’s about two families joining together in this true love fairy tale,’ Kourtney says in confession, while Reign runs through the house – in only his underwear – jumping into his massive bed, apparently imitating Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
Kourtney tells him to get in bed under the covers and she says she’ll come back to say prayers and to scratch his back.
Back in Paris, Kim heads to Balenciaga to get fitted for the fashion show, adding that famed designer Demna will be there.
‘Demna is the head designer of Balenciaga. I think the partnership with Balenciaga obviously came from Kanye, but I was just genuinely loving their clothes and wearing them all the time and it was a really organic relationship that happened, and I think those are the best ones.’
‘Every day was a campaign anyway, because that’s what I genuinely love, so the fact that it turned into real ones, and just walking in the show, just means so much,’ Kim says in confession.
Kim gets ready for her fitting with Demna, adding there is a lot of pressure because Demna is ‘the big boss’ and he’s making sure, ‘everything is perfect on the outfit. It’s just like, s**t got real.’
A confused North asks, ‘What’s going on?’ as Kim is led in to meet Demna, before the episode cuts to Las Vegas with Kylie.
Kylie in Vegas: A confused North asks, ‘What’s going on?’ as Kim is led in to meet Demna, before the episode cuts to Las Vegas with Kylie
‘Today is the Billboard Awards. I’m feeling really good about tonight. I love my outfit, I love my dress. I’m really going for supportive, wifey vibes, not really going for the star of the night tonight,’ Kylie says in confession.
She’s seen walking into the hotel holding hands with her four-year-old daughter Stormi Webster, telling her the age-old axiom, ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.’
‘Our daughter is here with us to watch the show, so I love any time she’s able to come with us,’ Kylie says in confession.
When they get into the hotel, Stormi says she’s hungry as Kylie takes her to the phone to order food, asking if she wants to try to order herself.
She adds in confession that she learned a lot from her mom about, ‘the importance of family,’ adding, ‘it’s the same for all of us. We’re all about family. We just have a really close relationship.’
Kylie dials room service as Stormi asks for chicken tenders and fries, and when the woman on the phone asks for anything else, Stormi surprises Kylie by adding, ‘a hamburger for my mommy.’
The woman over the phone says they’ll get that up shortly and Kylie asks Stormi, ‘What do you say?’ Stormi happily replies, ‘Thank you!’
Kylie adds in confession, ‘I never force my daughter to do anything. I always give her the option. She’s not leaving her mommy, and she gets it and she loves to come with me everywhere.’
Stormi tells the camera, ‘I love Vegas!’ Kylie adds, ‘You love it? I think it’s so much fun, actually. I always have a good time. My Vegas’ are a little different now,’ Kylie says while pointing at Stormi.
The episode cuts back to Paris where Kim goes back to meet Demna, adding in confession, ‘I don’t know why I’m nervous about this, but I am.’
‘It’s just a really big deal when a head designer of a house wants to start a relationship and you kind of have one shot,’ Kim says in confession, adding, ‘I’ll never disappoint anyone and that’s just who I am. I always want to be easy to work with and efficient and professional and get the job done.’
Demna checks out the outfit and adds, ‘I love how it looks. It looks nice. We don’t see the back, though.’
Kim turns around as we see her long blonde hair is covering the exposed back of the dress, as Kim immediately suggests they could put her hair up in a bun, as Chris comes over and makes it happen.
‘I think it’s nice to see the back,’ Demna adds, asking Kim if it’s really the first time she’s walking a fashion show runway.
‘Yeah. I mean, I walked… don’t laugh… I walked a show… do you know like Ed Hardy? 2006? So that was my debut in L.A. Fashion Week,’ Kim says as they show throwback snaps of her walking the runway 16 years ago.
‘So yeah, I’ve evolved,’ Kim jokes, as Demna adds, ‘With everything we’ve been doing together, it’s perfect, you know. I wouldn’t say it’s expected, because people don’t expect to see you walk the show. They expect to see you at the show. But that I love.’
Kim adds that it is, ‘so cool’ that her mom Kris and daughter North and cousin Cici are there, adding Cici is a huge fashion fan.
‘Demi Moore gave me really good advice, because I just said I’m walking in a show and I didn’t tell her what… and I don’t remember what that advice was and it’s in my text message,’ Kim says with a laugh.
‘But it was really good and I’m gonna look at it before. It said something like… she goes anytime I do something I’m nervous about, think about what you’re receiving instead of what you’re giving… or maybe it’s the opposite way… I don’t know, I’ll re-read it,’ Kim insisted.
They rehearse her walk and Demna says she should, ‘walk like you would walk at home,’ as Kim adds, ‘at home with Kendall, not at home with like Kourtney.’
She adds she’s, ‘so nervous all of the sudden,’ insisting, ‘but I’m not a runway model, as Balenciaga’s couture relations director Johan Fleury explains how the runway works.
‘So here’s the backstage. Here’s the music,’ Fleury says, while another woman tells her where to line up.
Kim adds in confession, ‘I’m just finishing up the rehearsal and it’s 2 AM. I’ve had a full day here and I have to get up at 7 AM and start all over again.
‘I’m a lunatic. I’ll land in Paris. Go do a photoshoot, go do this, go change my looks a million times, but it’s a commitment and we’re here,’ Kim explains.
The next day in Paris, Kris and Cici grab some lunch before heading to the fashion show.
Lunch: The next day in Paris, Kris and Cici grab some lunch before heading to the fashion show
Kris tells Cici that she just experienced, ‘A Kim Kardashian whirlwind 24 hours,’ as Cici says it was ‘amazing.’
‘Only she can do that and there’s not a lot of people who can keep up with her,’ Kris says, as Cici says they should, ‘step it up.’
‘Step it up is my middle name,’ Kris insists, while adding in confession she didn’t think she’d start the year with hip replacement surgery.
Whirlwind: Kris tells Cici that she just experienced, ‘A Kim Kardashian whirlwind 24 hours,’ as Cici says it was ‘amazing’
Step it up: ‘Only she can do that and there’s not a lot of people who can keep up with her,’ Kris says, as Cici says they should, ‘step it up’
Middle name: ‘Step it up is my middle name,’ Kris insists, while adding in confession she didn’t think she’d start the year with hip replacement surgery
‘But I am feeling younger and stronger and I’m loving life right now,’ Kris adds in confession, while her and Cici toast to Paris.
Cici tells Kris that there were so many years so read fashion magazines and all I wanted to do was to sit in the front row, as she starts getting emotional.
‘And I love Kim because she wanted to share that with you. I love that she has that heart because knew how much it would mean to you,’ Kris says.
So many: Cici tells Kris that there were so many years so read fashion magazines and all I wanted to do was to sit in the front row, as she starts getting emotional
Share: ‘And I love Kim because she wanted to share that with you. I love that she has that heart because knew how much it would mean to you,’ Kris says
Cici tells Kris she made it happen, ‘because you manage them, you’ve taken this to the top.’
Kris says being there this week, it makes her realize how proud she is of all of them, but to, ‘just understand and realize how Kim has learned how to, it makes me want to cry. She finds a balance somehow that works.’
Cici says Kim is, ‘superwoman,’ as Kris says she has figured out how to get whatever she wants in her life, as they enjoy their caviar.
Toast: Cici tells Kris she made it happen, ‘because you manage them, you’ve taken this to the top’
Proud: Kris says being there this week, it makes her realize how proud she is of all of them, but to, ‘just understand and realize how Kim has learned how to, it makes me want to cry. She finds a balance somehow that works’
Figure out: Cici says Kim is, ‘superwoman,’ as Kris says she has figured out how to get whatever she wants in her life, as they enjoy their caviar
Kris says they’ll go back to the hotel and change and Cici asks if they’ll have time to rest, but Kris says, ‘No, this was our caviar break,’ joking she wants to incorporate it into her California life.
Back in confession, Kim explains that when they were kids, ‘if it was past 7 AM and we weren’t up, it would be a problem.’
‘She’d intercom around the entire house, ‘It’s time to get up! You won’t be lazy!’ Kim says, adding that if they were still in bed by 7:30, she’d go in their rooms and make them get up.
California caviar: Kris says they’ll go back to the hotel and change and Cici asks if they’ll have time to rest, but Kris says, ‘No, this was our caviar break,’ joking she wants to incorporate it into her California life
‘It ended up working in our favor, but at the time you’re just like, ‘Why is my mom torturing me? Why can’t I have cool parents that let me sleep in?’
Kris insists she’s really cool, and Kim says she knows but now she’s grateful for her as a parent, adding, ‘I know it will be beneficial for them later.’
Back in Vegas, Kylie is in her Balmain dress, getting ready for the Billboard Awards, adding, ‘Any night I get to see Travis perform, I am there.’
Cool: ‘It ended up working in our favor, but at the time you’re just like, ‘Why is my mom torturing me? Why can’t I have cool parents that let me sleep in?’
She walks out with Stormi – in a tiny off-shoulder mini-dress – as she hits the red carpet before heading inside.
Back in Paris, Kim arrives at the Balenciaga show, adding in confession, ‘I still don’t know in front of all these cameras and people and live-stream… it’s really nerve-wracking, but it’s such a fun surprise, I think, for people to see that I’m walking in the show, that I’m excited.’
Kim arrives: Back in Paris, Kim arrives at the Balenciaga show, adding in confession, ‘I still don’t know in front of all these cameras and people and live-stream… it’s really nerve-wracking, but it’s such a fun surprise, I think, for people to see that I’m walking in the show, that I’m excited’
A producer asks Kim when she finished, as she says she finished at 2 AM and she had to get up at 7 AM and she set her alarm for 6:55 AM… but she woke up at 6:48 AM on her own, scared she was ‘missing anything.’
Kim explains how she would walk the different sisters as someone asks if Kendall gave her any advice.
Kim calls Kendall – who is sleeping – stating she needs some, ‘Kendall vibes’ asking if she should be ‘dead in the face’ while walking.’
Missing: A producer asks Kim when she finished, as she says she finished at 2 AM and she had to get up at 7 AM and she set her alarm for 6:55 AM… but she woke up at 6:48 AM on her own, scared she was ‘missing anything’
Walking: Kim explains how she would walk the different sisters as someone asks if Kendall gave her any advice
Calling Kendall: Kim calls Kendall – who is sleeping – stating she needs some, ‘Kendall vibes’ asking if she should be ‘dead in the face’ while walking’
‘Yeah, no smiling,’ Kendall says before Kim lets her go back to sleep.
Kim comes back from the bathroom saying she just peed, ‘three times’ and she hopes her ‘pee anxiety’ doesn’t get the best of her.
‘I travel with a cup in the backseat of the car with a ziploc, wet wipes, my mom almost threw up when she drove me to Palm Springs,’ Kim says.
No smiling: ‘Yeah, no smiling,’ Kendall says before Kim lets her go back to sleep
Pee anxiety: Kim comes back from the bathroom saying she just peed, ‘three times’ and she hopes her ‘pee anxiety’ doesn’t get the best of her
Travel: ‘I travel with a cup in the backseat of the car with a ziploc, wet wipes, my mom almost threw up when she drove me to Palm Springs,’ Kim says
Kim is getting ready to walk the runway, following a number of models with black plastic shields over their faces, as Kim walks shield-less.
‘Kim is perfect. And to be able to sit here and watch North watch her mommy walk a runway, it’s just wonderful, and one for the memory books,’ Kris says in confession.
Kim walks back with a white rose, adding in confession, ‘I’m so happy it’s done. That was like a bucket list experience.’
Kim walks: Kim is getting ready to walk the runway, following a number of models with black plastic shields over their faces, as Kim walks shield-less
‘It feels like I’ve come a long way, you know. It’s so validating that people so high up in the fashion world gave me this opportunity. It was so so so cool,’ Kim says in confession.
She says backstage she couldn’t even look at North, while Kris says in confession that North was ‘beaming’ at her and they were ‘all so excited.
Kris says she wanted to cheer but Kim says she learned from Kendall, ‘that’s not what you do.’
‘So the last thing on my schedule is we’re all going to see the Jean-Paul Gauthier Couture show,’ Kim says in confession, while getting ready, she pokes fun at how Kris pronounces certain fashion brands.
Pronounce: ‘So the last thing on my schedule is we’re all going to see the Jean-Paul Gauthier Couture show,’ Kim says in confession, while getting ready, she pokes fun at how Kris pronounces certain fashion brands
‘She messes up every name. It’s so cringey,’ Kim adds in confession, saying she will, ‘change her accent in the middle of her real voice.’
They arrive at the Jean-Paul Gaultier show, dressed in their looks by Kim’s friend Olivier, who gave Kim a big hug after the show.
‘This has been such an amazing trip, doing these things I never thought I’d do. Walking in a couture show, attending all these couture shows with my daughter and my mom,’ Kim says in confession.
Cringey: ‘She messes up every name. It’s so cringey,’ Kim adds in confession, saying she will, ‘change her accent in the middle of her real voice’
Kris hugs Kim in confession, with Kris saying Kim will always be her little girl, with Kim saying that’s what she tells her girls.
‘So many amazing moments, but the most important is getting to enjoy it with my family and my friends and having this mom and daughter and granddaughter moment and just being together and it was just the best,’ Kim says in confession, as they’re all seen toasting at dinner.
The episode cuts back to Los Angeles – on July 28, 2022 – when the first episode of the season was filmed.
Kim is in a car, telling the camera that Khloe called her and said her surrogate is going into labor early and she’s going to Khloe’s house to pick her up as they head to Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles.
They show brief shots of the actual labor (though without showing the surrogate) as Kim is handed her baby, as she proclaims, ‘Oh my god he looks just like True.’
Khloe facetimes her daughter True, asking if she thinks the newborn is cute, while she’s seen heading home with the baby.
Back at home, Khloe is holding the baby under a blanket, never showing the baby’s face, as Kris says how beautiful the baby is.
‘Life is good and a new baby in the family is magic. He’s such a blessing. God has a plan and this baby was meant to be here and Khloe gets to be mommy again, so that’s really really special and I’m really excited about that,’ Kris says in confession.
Kim comes over and says she didn’t know Kris was there, as Kim gets a look at the baby and says, ‘Oh my Goodness, look at those lips.’
Kris asks if she thinks the baby looks like her brother Rob, and Kim says, ‘He’s actually Rob’s twin,’ while Kris says, ‘He’s so perfect.’
‘What are we gonna name him? That’s what I wanna know,’ Kim asks, and while Khloe doesn’t say anything, Kris offers a suggestion.
‘How about Rob? How about Rob Kardashian Thompson? And then just call him Rob Kardashian?’ Kris says.
Kourtney comes over and gets a look at the baby, adding, ‘When they open their mouths and just the way they smell…’
Khloe adds, ‘Kourt’s so funny,’ as Kourtney holds the baby and bounces him, getting him to stop crying as Kris says she has, ‘the magic touch.’
‘I wish I could breastfeed you,’ Kourtney says, as Khloe says, ‘Oh my gosh, Kourt, let’s calm down,’ adding it’s time for the baby to go to sleep.
‘I’ve been telling Khloe for so long how special it is to raise a gaggle of kids because it’s a gift to have a brother or sister, so she’s going to be the best boymom in the world,’ Kris says in confession.
Back at Khloe’s house, Kris tells Khloe that she’s ‘really proud of you and you’re the best mom in the whole universe and I’m so proud of the way you’ve handled everything with the baby.’
Khloe thanks her mom and says she learned it from, ‘all you ladies,’ as Kim says, ‘one thing we know how to do, ladies, is be good moms.’
Khloe adds in confession, ‘We have had a lot of high highs and definitely a lot of low lows. You can’t write this s**t. I wish you could write this s**t, so it wasn’t our reality, but whenever you go down, you know you go back up, and that’s the beauty of this family, we don’t stay down for long.
The episode cuts to a montage of Kendall from throughout the season, as she mentions in confession, ‘I have a lot of ideas and a lot of things I would love to do in life, so I’m excited to continue to explore all those things… but I’m moving to a ranch. I am an actual cowgirl.’
Kourtney says in confession, ‘The past few months have just been non-stop, all swirled in with planning our wedding, raising our six kids, doing all these things with the love of my life just makes it all so special.
Kim adds in confession, ‘The best part of my life is I could never foresee what the next chapter is going to be, and I don’t want to see it, I just want to live it, in the moment. I surprise myself all the time and it makes life so exciting.’
Kris says in confession that life has been ‘extremely challenging for me in so many ways, ups and downs and everything you can imagine. I can only do so much, and I can only control so much. By the way, that’s pretty hard for me to admit.’
Kylie says this year was ‘transformative’ for her, adding, ‘there’s so many amazing things that I’m really excited about, hang out with my babies and really dive into my work.’
‘My baby’s name is still Wolf. I’ll let you guys know when I change it. Maybe I’ll tell you guys in Season 3,’ Kylie says with a wink, as the episode, and Season 2, comes to an end.
World population hits 8 billion, UN says, as growth poses more challenges for the planet
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The world’s population will reach 8 billion people on Tuesday, representing a “milestone in human development” before birth rates start to slow, according to a projection from the United Nations.
In a statement, the UN said the figure meant 1 billion people had been added to the global population in just 12 years.
“This unprecedented growth is due to the gradual increase in human lifespan owing to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicine. It is also the result of high and persistent levels of fertility in some countries,” the UN statement read.
Middle-income countries, mostly in Asia, accounted for most of the growth over the past decade, gaining some 700 million people since 2011. India added about 180 million people, and is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous nation next year.
But even while the global population reaches new highs, demographers note the growth rate has fallen steadily to less than 1% per year. This should keep the world from reaching 9 billion people until 2037. The UN projects the global population will peak at around 10.4 billion people in the 2080s and remain at that level until 2100.
Most of the 2.4 billion people to be added before the global population peaks will be born in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the UN, marking a shift away from China and India.
Reaching an 8 billion global population “is an occasion to celebrate diversity and advancements while considering humanity’s shared responsibility for the planet,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said in the UN statement.
Having more people on Earth puts more pressure on nature, as people compete with wildlife for water, food and space. Meanwhile, rapid population growth combined with climate change is also likely to cause mass migration and conflict in coming decades, experts say.
And whether it’s food or water, batteries or gasoline, there will be less to go around as the global population grows. But how much they consume is equally important, suggesting policymakers can make a big difference by mandating a shift in consumption patterns.
Carbon emissions of the richest 1%, or about 63 million people, were more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity between 1990 and 2015, according to a 2020 analysis by the Stockholm Environment Institute and non-profit Oxfam International.
Resource pressure will be especially daunting in African nations, where populations are expected to boom, experts say. These are also among the countries most vulnerable to climate impacts, and most in need of climate finance.