Kanye West lost friends when he started dating Kim and he now calls Kris 'mum'.

Love was not easy for Yeezy. Kanye West revealed in a new interview with Style.com that while he and his wife Kim Kardashian have become fashion royalty against many odds, the two shared somewhat of a rocky road to romance.

"She was always my muse, now she’s become other designers’ muses," West, 37, reflected of the reality star, 34. "Soon as we started dating, fashion people were really opposed to the idea of reality stars. And all the relationships, the somewhat friends that I had somewhat built up, completely turned their backs on her and me. They already had their back to her, and now they turned it to me."

According to West, the not-so-warm reception to his first two collections was really a blessing in disguise, essentially allowing him to start over. "The so-called traction that I was getting in the high-fashion world was completely thrown out the window and I was finally allowed to go to school," West reflected. "Every day I was in my mom [Kris Jenner]’s house, in my little brother’s old room, Rob’s old room, re-tailoring a Céline skirt, re-tailoring a Saint Laurent jacket, re-tailoring a Zara top, re-tailoring Wolford … And day by day by day, [Kim and I] learned, we got better. We looked at the photographs together and she improved my style, we improved each other."