--- title: Kim Kardashian West Posts First Instagram Since Robbery description: Kim Kardashian West has returned to Instagram after a three month hiatus that came about after she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. canonical: https://time.com/4621107/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-03T20:47:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:51.931Z og:title: See Kim Kardashian West's First Instagram After a 3-Month Social Media Hiatus og:description: She hadn't posted since being robbed and held at gunpoint in October og:url: https://time.com/4621107/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff1978f4224febf/6988b450e20a87c220a93a03/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Givenchy : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Kim Kardashian West's First Instagram After a 3-Month Social Media Hiatus twitter:description: She hadn't posted since being robbed and held at gunpoint in October twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff1978f4224febf/6988b450e20a87c220a93a03/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Kim Kardashian West's First Instagram After 3-Month Social Media Hiatus > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 3, 2017 8:47 PM UTC  Kim Kardashian attends the Givenchy show at Paris Fashion Week (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage) Kim Kardashian attends the Givenchy show at Paris Fashion Week (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage) Dominique Charriau—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 3, 2017 8:47 PM UTC [Kim Kardashian West](http://time.com/4573660/kardashians-jenners-forbes-highest-earning-reality-stars-2016/) has returned to Instagram with a sweet family photo that she published on the social media platform on Tuesday. This is Kardashian West’s first Instagram since going silent on all social media feeds for three months after [she was robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week in October](http://time.com/4516165/kim-kardashian-held-up-at-gunpoint-in-paris-hotel-room/). In the post,which [features her with Kanye West](http://time.com/3822917/kanye-west/) and their [two children, North and Saint](http://time.com/4599168/beyonce-mariah-carey-family-photo/), Kardashian West and the rest of the family are dressed in matching white and black outfits; the reality TV celebutante kept her caption succinct, stating merely: “Family.” Although this is her first Instagram since the incident, Kardashian West also [posted a video of the family on her personal app earlier on Tuesday](http://time.com/4620972/kim-kardashian-home-video-with-kanye/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4621107/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4621107/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram/"},"headline":"See Kim Kardashian West's First Instagram After 3-Month Social Media Hiatus","datePublished":"2017-01-03T20:47:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:51.931Z","description":"She hadn't posted since being robbed and held at gunpoint in October","url":"https://time.com/4621107/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Kanye West","Instagram","celebrity","Kim Kardashian","kim kardashian west","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff1978f4224febf/6988b450e20a87c220a93a03/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbff1978f4224febf/6988b450e20a87c220a93a03/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Givenchy : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017","caption":"Givenchy : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017","creditText":"Dominique Charriau—WireImage","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/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4621107/kim-kardashian-west-posts-first-instagram/","name":"See Kim Kardashian West's First Instagram After 3-Month Social Media Hiatus"}}]}] ```