Kanye West and Bianca Censori have only been married for just over two years but their relationship has caused a significant amount of controversy in the media thanks to the model’s regular display of public nudity.
Their latest scandal comes after Bianca shocked the world when she stripped down at the Grammys on Sunday evening while posing on the red carpet beside the US rapper which has caused a huge amount of backlash.
Despite this, concerns have also been raised for the 30-year-old’s welfare with fears that Bianca is being controlled by her husband, after her friends previously stepped in to warn her about Kanye’s alarming behaviour.
Before she was employed by her now husband back in 2020, who was still married to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian West at the time, the model was working towards her masters degree in architecture at the University of Melbourne and was not in the limelight.
Following Kim and Kanye’s divorce in 2022, Kanye and Bianca were legally wed in a secret ceremony just weeks after the divorce was finalised and had not even went public with their relationship yet.
So how did Bianca go from being your average university student to the talk of the town on the Grammys red carpet beside her famous husband in such a short space of time?
Here we take a closer look at the relationship timeline of Kanye and Bianca and how their relationship unfolded..
Kanye employs Bianca
According to the model’s LinkedIn page, Bianca started working at West’s company, Yeezy, in November 2020 while she was studying at university.
An insider, who claims to know Bianca, told an Australian radio show that the US rapper had reached out to his future wife via social media.
She said: “Ye slid into her DMs, found her on Instagram, and said, ‘Come and work for me,’ and she dropped out. I’m not actually sure if she’s an architect.”
Just a few months later, Kanye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian, who he shares his four children with, filed for divorce from the star in 2021 after almost seven years of marriage. Their divorce was finalised in November 2022.
Secret wedding
Kanye hinted at their relationship back in December 2022 when he shared his track to Instagram called “Censori Overload.”
At the time, no one knew who Censori was with many of his fans believing he had just spelled sensory in a different way. Lyrics in the song include: “And the Bible said I can’t have any more sex till marriage.”
However, this problem was soon fixed after TMZ reported that the couple had gotten hitched just four days after they were spotted in public together for the first time.
The Daily Mail confirmed that the couple had, in fact, gotten married legally on December 20, 2022 – weeks before they publicly confirmed their relationship.
The couple used a confidential marriage license, meaning their union was not public record. Bianca was soon spotted hanging out with Kanye’s oldest child, North.
Censori’s bizarre looks
Bianca’s strange fashion choices first started gathering attention in the summer of 2023. The model started wearing less and less clothes which started with her wearing tights with nothing on top of them.
Both her and West then went shoeless for a night out in Italy and Censori’s signature look that summer became sporting nude panty hoses on their own which she wore in public several times.
The rapper is notorious for styling the women he dates so many assumed these controversial outfits were coming from him.
Things went from bad to worse when the couple photographed in what appeared to be a compromising sexual position while on a water taxi in Venice, which led to them being banned from the service according to TMZ.
Family concerns
Censori’s close friends and family intervened and addressed her concerning relationship with Kanye.
Two of her longest friends from Australia told the Daily Mail that they had held a “successful intervention” with Bianca when she returned to her home country for a solo trip in November.
An insider told the publication: “Everyone is just glad that they finally were able to get through to Bianca. Her friends let her know exactly how they feel and they told her that she needs to wake the f**k up.
“She knows that she has shut out those close to her and she is also starting to see through the smoky mirrors of her marriage. She is aware of Kanye’s controlling ways and she is starting to see things from an outside perspective.”
Shortly after this, the U.S. Sun reported that the couple were “taking a break” as an insider claimed: “Her family has never been a fan of Ye, and those close to her have questioned whether marrying him was the right decision.
“He is a very difficult person to be around and work for, and Bianca has been one of the most patient people ever to deal with him.”
Kim Kardashian’s warning
If the couple did go on a break, it was very short lived as they were seen holidaying in December the following month and also took a trip to Disneyland together with North.
By February 2024, the model was well-known for her almost nude attire in public with a source revealing that Kim had become very concerned about how Censori was dressing in-front of her children.
The Cut reports that a source revealed: “Kim instructed Kanye to never let Bianca dress like that around their kids. She is truly surprised that Kanye would let his wife leave the house like that.”
Censori seems to have taken this warning on board as her clothing choices go from one extreme to the other when photographed with Kim and Kanye’s kids as she’s almost always overly covered up in enormous coats and fur hats that cover her face.
Split rumours
The couple were rumoured to have split up in October 2024 with both parties reportedly telling their friends they had broken up according to TMZ.
However, after being photographed in public less than a week later, they seemed to be back on again. A source told Us Weekly that the couple were “not divorcing,” but they had been going through a series of “ups and downs.” that they “are working through”.
Grammys scandal
Kanye and Bianca were back with a bang at the Grammy Awards on Sunday February 2 with the model’s most controversial outfit yet when she stripped off entirely naked on the red carpet.
In contrast, the rapper was dressed in his usual all black while his wife donned a huge fur coat that she dropped to reveal a completely sheer minidress with nothing underneath.
The couple were seen whispering before Bianca took her jacket off with Nicola Hickling, the founder and chief analyst at LipReader, claiming that West was encouraging his wife to make the move.
According to Hickling’s interpretation, Kanye told her: “You’re making a scene now” to which Bianca simply nodded.
The rapper then allegedly instructed: “Make a scene, I’ll say it’ll make so much sense. Drop it behind you and then turn, I got you.”
The couple then reportedly got in a car and left the event at Crypto.com Arena in LA of their own accord after their brief appearance.
Kanye had been nominated for best rap song category for his song “Carnival” off his album which was won by Kendrick Lamar with his tune ‘Not Like Us.’
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