One of Kim Kardashian’s precious pieces of jewelry was saved as she was robbed in Paris in 2016 — thanks to a warning from the controversial Kanye West via PEOPLE.
On the March 13th edition of The Kardashians, Kim, 44, recalled the warning her then-husband had given her never to wear both engagement rings at the same time after she did so once — and flaunted it online.
“My first one that I got engaged to Kanye [with] was a cushion cut and that was the only piece of jewelry I owned that I didn’t take to Paris,” Kim said.
West proposed initially with a 15-carat ring in 2013 and later gifted her a 20-carat ring that she debuted in 2016. Speaking on the new episode, Kim stated that she had worn both her rings to an event at Madison Square Garden with jeweler Lorraine Schwartz and showed the pair off in an Instagram video.
“Kanye saw it and he goes, ‘Don’t you ever wear both of your rings at the same time. Are you looking to get robbed?’ ” she recalled.
As she went to Paris that same year, Kim stated that she “left my original ring that I got proposed to, which was like the most important” at home.
The 20-carat, newer ring, which was worth an estimated $4 million, was one of the several pieces of jewelry that was taken from her hotel room while she was held at gunpoint during the terrifying heist. An estimated $10 million in jewels were robbed in total.
In the aftermath of the robbery, she also stopped wearing flashy jewelry for several years. However, in the Kardashians episode, she told her sister Khloé she might start wearing her diamonds again — which Khloé, 40, was totally on board for.
Kim also disclosed her plan to give her engagement ring to her daughter North, 11. “That one, I’m gonna give to Northy, because she was with me when I got engaged and she held it after and I took a photo and she was just, like, a few months old,” she said.
North, the couple’s oldest daughter, was 4 months old when the rapper proposed to Kim at San Francisco’s AT&T Park, which he rented out, on her 33rd birthday. An orchestra played upon their arrival and West displayed a message on the jumbotron asking Kim to marry him in the lavish proposal, where she was joined by her family and friends.
