--- title: Kim Kardashian West Thanks Kanye For Thick Skin description: Kim Kardashian West has no time for haters, and she really could care less about what Internet trolls have to say about her. canonical: https://time.com/4511496/kim-kardashian-west-andy-cohen-internet-criticism/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-28T16:17:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:28.328Z og:title: Kim Kardashian West Can Handle Your Criticism, Thank You Very Much og:description: 'Now there is nothing anybody can say that can even rattle me' og:url: https://time.com/4511496/kim-kardashian-west-andy-cohen-internet-criticism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ba0a3ad2e59742/6988a7ee97cdff85426adf6a/kim-kardashian-west-girls-lounge.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Girls' Lounge Dinner At Advertising Week 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Kardashian West Can Handle Your Criticism, Thank You Very Much twitter:description: 'Now there is nothing anybody can say that can even rattle me' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ba0a3ad2e59742/6988a7ee97cdff85426adf6a/kim-kardashian-west-girls-lounge.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kim Kardashian West Can Handle Your Criticism, Thank You Very Much by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 28, 2016 4:17 PM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 27: (EXCLUSIVE ACCESS, SPECIAL RATES APPLY) Kim Kardashian-West speaks at The Girls' Lounge dinner, giving visibility to women at Advertising Week 2016, at Pier 60 on September 27, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The Girls' Lounge) NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 27: (EXCLUSIVE ACCESS, SPECIAL RATES APPLY) Kim Kardashian-West speaks at The Girls' Lounge dinner, giving visibility to women at Advertising Week 2016, at Pier 60 on September 27, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The Girls' Lounge)Slaven Vlasic—The Girls' Lounge/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 28, 2016 4:17 PM UTC [Kim Kardashian West](http://motto.time.com/4507540/kim-kardashian-hillary-clinton-support/) has no time for haters, and she really could care less about what Internet trolls have to say about her. Kardashian West was interviewed by _Bravo_ host Andy Cohen at The Girls’ Lounge dinner Tuesday night in New York City and opened up about learning to grow a thicker skin. “I used to look at everything and anything and have Google Alerts and just get so upset and go home and cry after something mean being said,” [she said](http://www.eonline.com/shows/kardashians/news/798168/here-s-where-kim-kardashian-was-when-rob-kardashian-and-kylie-jenner-s-recent-drama-unfolded). “And now there is nothing anybody can say that can even rattle me.” She said she’s proud of her ability to let things roll off her back, but “it’s a little bit sad that that’s the time you live in that people can say the meanest, nastiest things and you can be ok with it.” [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ Kardashian West [thanked](https://www.instagram.com/p/BK4iRLph6ac/) husband [Kanye West](http://time.com/4506269/kim-kardashian-on-kanye-for-president/) for his invaluable life lessons. “My husband has definitely taught me to be my most authentic self and not care what other people think,” she said. “I think I was a people pleaser before.” Discussing what she hoped to teach daughter North, she said, “I just want her to be a kind person.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4511496/kim-kardashian-west-andy-cohen-internet-criticism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4511496/kim-kardashian-west-andy-cohen-internet-criticism/"},"headline":"Kim Kardashian West Can Handle Your Criticism, Thank You Very Much","datePublished":"2016-09-28T16:17:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:28.328Z","description":"'Now there is nothing anybody can say that can even rattle me'","url":"https://time.com/4511496/kim-kardashian-west-andy-cohen-internet-criticism/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ba0a3ad2e59742/6988a7ee97cdff85426adf6a/kim-kardashian-west-girls-lounge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60ba0a3ad2e59742/6988a7ee97cdff85426adf6a/kim-kardashian-west-girls-lounge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Girls' Lounge Dinner At Advertising Week 2016","caption":"The Girls' Lounge Dinner At Advertising Week 2016","creditText":"Slaven Vlasic—The Girls' Lounge/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4511496/kim-kardashian-west-andy-cohen-internet-criticism/","name":"Kim Kardashian West Can Handle Your Criticism, Thank You Very Much"}}]}] ```