North West may already have a net worth in the millions, but when she gets older, she’s going to inherit something even more valuable — a meaningful Kardashian family heirloom. Kim Kardashian recently revealed the piece of jewelry she is planning on gifting her 11-year-old daughter, who she shares with ex-husband Kanye West, and it has a sentimental value that you can’t put a price tag on.
The SKIMS co-founder opened up about this on today’s episode of The Kardashians, telling her sister Khloé Kardashian, “My first one that I got engaged with Kanye [was] a cushion cut, and that was the only piece of jewelry that I owned that I didn’t take to Paris,” Kim said, per PEOPLE, referring to the time a burglar broke into her hotel room in Paris and robbed her of most of her jewelry in 2016.
In the episode, Kim said she didn’t take the ring with her because of a warning West had given her previously. “Because when I was with you at Madison Square Garden, you told me to wear both, I wore both,” Kim told a friend in this week’s episode. “Kanye saw it and went, ‘Don’t you ever wear both of your rings at the same time. Are you looking to get robbed?’”
So the 20-carat emerald cut ring that West gave her in 2016 was stolen, but she still has the 15-carat cushion-cut diamond ring he originally gave her when she was pregnant with North, which she calls the “most important” anyway.
“And so that one I’m going to give to Northie because she was with me when I got engaged,” Kim said. “And she held it after and I took a photo. She was just a few months old.”
How cool is it that this meaningful ring didn’t get stolen? Now North will one day own the gorgeous ring her dad proposed to her mom with while she was pregnant. And even though the couple got divorced in 2022, that is still the coolest family heirloom full of sentimental value for North.
Kim and West, who also share kids Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5, were engaged in 2013, which was televised on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. For those who don’t remember, West brought his soon-to-be-fiancée to AT&T Park in San Francisco, where an orchestra played Lana Del Rey’s “Young and Beautiful.”
In an interview after the fact with Power 106 in Los Angeles, West revealed that it took him time to design the ring. “[Kim] knew I was eventually going to ask her to marry me. I just had to get that ring right,” he said, per Vanity Fair.
He explained, “I worked with four different jewelers, three rings were made, only one, like, actually hit the finger with Lorraine [Schwartz]. She came through.”
Still, West was up late re-working the ring to be perfect. “And the ring, I actually changed it the night before. That ring was, like, less than four hours old by the time I gave it to her,” he said. It’s clear he knew even then that this would be a meaningful ring!
