Khloé KardashianandTristan Thompsonrang in 2019 with a kiss!
The couple, who shares 8-month-old daughterTrue, hosted a New Year’s Eve party together on Monday at Rumor Bar & Lounge in Cleveland, Ohio.
Kardashian, 34, documented the evening’s festivities on her Instagram Stories, even snapping a photo of a personalized ice sculpture with “Koko and TT” — the pair’s respective nicknames — carved into it.
When the clock finally struck midnight, the pair shared a smooch.
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Tristan Thompson and Khloé Kardashian.Khloe Kardashian/Instagram
The intimate moment between the two comes after a very difficult year, in which the Cleveland Cavaliers player was caught in acheating scandalafter photos surfaced of him getting close to another woman — just days before Kardashian gave birth.
Though the mom-of-one has forgiven Thompson since the scandal, she put hermove back to Cleveland on holdin early fall and “still has a lot of hurt and anger,” a source told PEOPLE.
Nevertheless, Kardashian chose to spendHalloweenandThanksgivingin Cleveland with Thompson and their daughter.
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“What it comes down to is that Khloé wants True to grow up in a family with both parents,” said the source. “She wants True to spend as much time with her dad as possible. She believes that True needs a mom and dad in her life.”
“Khloé wants so badly for True to have a happy family,” added a separate insider. “She wants to do what’s best for her daughter, and to her that means being with Tristan.”
Although the NBA playerdid not appear in any of the photosfrom her family’s Christmas Eve celebration, the reality star previously revealed that she would be “celebrating earlywith Tristan in Cleveland” since his team would be on the road over the winter holiday.
Thompson’s team had ascheduled gamein Cleveland on Dec. 23, and another one in Memphis, Tennessee, on Dec. 26.
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Despite missing the holiday with his family,he still made sure that True got presents,including two pairs of Air Force 1s in white and pink, plus a pair of black Air Max 90s.
“Thank you daddy,” Kardashian wrote over a photo on her Instagram Stories, which showed the four different pairs of Nike sneakers all for little True.
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While it was a challenging year for Kardashian, shelooked back on 2018with a positive and grateful attitude.
“❥➹ 2018 was a roller coaster of emotions,” she wrote in areflective New Year’s Eve poston Monday. “My soul endured, the highest highs and the lowest lows. Praise be to GOD because at this moment, I’m at an all time high.”
“I now know I am a conqueror, I am stronger than I ever could have imagined,” she added, “and no matter which obstacle I face, I will always overcome it.”
source: people.com
