Kim Kardashian says son Saint is ‘closer’ to sister North West because of his YouTube channel

Kim Kardashian has shared how her son, Saint, has gotten “closer” to his sister North since making his YouTube channel.

The 43-year-old reality star discussed how Saint recently started his YouTube channel during an interview with Entertainment Tonight, while at the Kering for Women dinner in New York City on September 9. After noting that she “approves” her son’s videos before posting them, she then described how the YouTube channel has changed Saint’s relationship with his elder sister, North.

“I will say it has brought him and North closer together because she’s filming his content and making him do challenges,” she explained. “So I filmed some behind the scenes, and it’s actually a blessing in disguise.”

The Skims founder confessed that while she was hesitant about Saint making the YouTube account initially, she’s now happy about it. “I was fighting against this, but it’s working in my favor,” she added.

Last week, The Kardashians star first took to her Instagram Story to reveal that her eight-year-old son had created a YouTube channel. However, she acknowledged that he had to follow a few rules when running the account.

“I finally allowed Saint to have a YouTube channel, after signing an extensive contract,” she wrote in her post, shared on September 4 via Us Weekly. “Please Subscribe!”

Her story showed a screenshot of the handwritten contract, in which Saint agreed that he would not “comment on any personal family information” or “film any personal information” for his YouTube. He also “must show [his] mom or guardian all videos before” posting them and delete his videos if his mother tells him to for any reason. The contract noted that if Saint doesn’t listen to all the rules listed, Kardashian “could make [his] page private or delete [his] account.”

“Saint signed a solid contract for this YouTube channel. He better not breach,” she wrote in the caption, along with a winky face emoji.

On his YouTube channel, Saint goes by the username “TheGoatSaint” and often posts content about his video games. As of September 10, he has 33 videos and 13,000 subscribers.

Along with Saint and North, 11, Kardashian and her ex-husband, Kanye West, share two other children: Chicago, six, and Psalm, five.

Kardashian has previously shared the rules she has for her eldest daughter when she posts on social media. During an appearance on Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop podcast in 2022, the reality star shared how she lets North post videos on their joint TikTok account.

“With social media, it is hard because all the cousins, all my nieces and nephews, they’re all best friends with my kids. They’re all the same ages. So if Penelope has a TikTok, North wants a TikTok, and all the girls at school have a TikTok. However, I have made a rule with their dad about it – he’s not happy about that. I respect that,” she explained. “But it can only be on my phone. It’s not something where she can scroll and look at things. We don’t do comments.”

During an interview with Time last year, Kardashian opened up about an instance when West may have been right to be concerned about North’s TikTok. She specifically reflected on a since-deleted video, which had shown North singing sexually explicit lyrics from an Ice Spice song. Fans then referred to West’s 2022 comments about how he did not want his daughter to be “used by TikTok” and questioned if he was right for those remarks.

“As soon as I saw the words, I was like: ‘Oh no, we’re taking this down’,” Kardashian said, before adding: “I saw on the internet, [people saying] ‘Kanye was right,’ and maybe he was in that instance.”

Despite agreeing with her ex-husband in that specific instance, Kardashian defended her daughter’s use of the app. “But she loves making slime videos and doing her little hair tutorials, and I will fight for her to be creative,” she said.