Kim Kardashian has admitted she never uses her youngest daughter Chicago's first name because it 'doesn't flow'. The mother-of-three instead calls the six-month-old 'Chi', pronounced 'shy'. She made the revelation in a video on her website, KimKardashianWest.com.
Kim admits she prefers short names - like North and Saint - but struggled to come up with one that felt right for her third child. Her husband Kanye West came up with the name Chicago, in homage to his hometown.
But it is clear Kim is still not sold, saying: 'Chicago just looks really long to me and doesn’t flow, so I call her Chi. That’s it, she can decide later if she wants to be called Chicago or Chi.
'But like she’s so girly. When she first came out I was like what do we name her? It was the hardest decision ever and I could not think of a name.'
She continued: 'All the other names we had for her, we were going to name her Rei and spell it R-e-i for Kanye’s dad Rei and she doesn’t look like a Rei. We were going to call her Jo for Mary Jo and have it be Jo West. She doesn’t look like a Jo.'
She also admitted that she is at loggerheads with Kanye over the child's middle name.
She said: 'I’m going to add one. I haven’t really been into middle names but it’s like I really wanted a name that was short. A one syllable name. Noel is my middle name and it’s not a one syllable name but it’s short. Like I love the name Noel. Kanye does not. So I unofficially instagrammed Chi Noel and I was like I’m doing this because I want her middle name to be Noel.
She added that she sees much of herself in her youngest child, who was born via surrogate.
'She’s literally my twin, it’s crazy,' Kim said. 'I think because I was so nervous that having a surrogate I would lose that connection. I swear I was like God is going to be like here is your twin so you feel so connected. Yeah, it’s crazy how it works.
'She’s so like teeny and pretty.'
Kim was interviewed in the video by her former assistant Stephanie Shephard.
She denied rumors the pair fell out when Stephanie stopped working for her.
Kim insisted: 'You guys, we’ve never had a feud. She wanted to go in a different direction.'
