KIM KARDASHIAN FILES FOR DIVORCE

After weeks of rumors, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West announce they are splitting up.

Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from Kanye West, her representative confirmed Friday. The couple, who share four children, married in 2014 after they began dating two years prior.

Rumors of Kardashian, 40, and West, 43, splitting up have circulated in recent weeks, following a tumultuous year for the couple. West announced on the Fourth of July that he intended to run for president, displaying erratic behavior at a campaign rally later that month and soon afterward on Twitter. He said Kardashian had been trying to get him medical attention, and that he intended to divorce her.

Kardashian largely stayed silent on the matter of her husband’s mental health but spoke out later in July. She requested “compassion and empathy,” noting that family members can be “powerless” in their efforts to get help for someone who isn’t a minor.

“I understand Kanye is subject to criticism because he is a public figure and his actions at times can cause strong opinions and emotions,” she wrote. “He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother ... has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bi-polar disorder.”

Kardashian and West began dating in 2012, soon after Kardashian separated from her second husband. In 2015, the New York Times referred to the merging of their public personas —Kardashian’s reality TV series and entrepreneurial efforts, along with West’s star career as a rapper and newfound designer — as a “historic blizzard of celebrity.”