“I think like the one misconception that people might have is like, ‘Oh, she’s trying to be her bestie and lets her get away with a lot,’” she shared on sister Khloe Kardashian’s Khloe in Wonderland podcast in January. “Like, no. North actually has a lot of rules. The one area is I do let her express herself, and I do let her do that. And I love her for it.”

Plus, she knows that North would “do it regardless,” adding that it’s easy for others who are not in her position to throw stones.

“I think that no one knows unless they’re in my shoes of what I’m dealing with,” Kim emphasized, “and how we have to manage certain things from the outside world, or even close in our life, that we have to go through together.”

For more from North throughout the years, keep reading.