Kim Kardashian called her son Saint West ‘one of my soulmates’ as she paid tribute to him on his ninth 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day.

The SKIMS founder, 44 — who recently faced backlash for reinstating Saint’s YouTube channel — uploaded the heartfelt post to Instagram on Thursday, December 5.

Kim included 11 of her favorite photos of her and Saint ‘snuggling’ together in bed inside her $60million Hidden Hills mansion.

‘My 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day boy Saint turns 9 today,’ she began. ‘I was going through my photos and most of our pics are snuggling cuddling pics.

‘I always wanna believe that my little man will be this snuggly forever! So cheers to one of my soulmates for being the sweetest boy. Happy 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day. I love you.’

Kim’s sweet post comes amid dad Kanye West‘s apparent absence from their four kids’ lives — two years after he and his ex-wife reached a joint custody agreement.

Kim Kardashian called her son Saint West ‘one of my soulmates’ as she paid tribute to him on his ninth 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day

The rapper, 47, hasn’t been seen publicly with either Saint, North, 11, Chicago, six, or Psalm, five, in nearly three months.

That’s because he’s been hunkered down in Japan with his much-younger wife Bianca Censori, 30, amid mounting 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual assault and abuse lawsuits — including from his former assistant.

He was last seen spending time with his 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren in September as they attended his album listening party in China.

North and Chicago recently appeared in the rapper’s music video for his new song BOMB off his Vultures 2 album — though it was later determined that the daughters’ cameos were AI generated.

DailyMail.com previously reached out to reps for West for comment on him not being seen with his 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren in several months but did not immediately hear back.

Last month, Kim admitted she feels like a single parent these days while appearing on her close pal Zoe Winkler’s What The Winkler? podcast.

Zoe said Kim’s parenting situation is ‘insane,’ to which reality star replied, ‘Yeah.’

Kim also told Winkler, who is also a mother, that she doesn’t talk about raising her kids a lot because it comes with ‘a lot of judgment’.

‘You and I have mostly connected on parenting and judgment, and you know, feeling like sometimes you’re in this alone,’ she shared.

The SKIMS founder, 44 — who recently faced backlash for reinstating Saint’s YouTube channel — uploaded the heartfelt post to Instagram on Thursday, December 5

Kim included 11 of her favorite photos of her and Saint ‘snuggling’ together in bed inside her $60million Hidden Hills mansion

‘My 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day boy Saint turns 9 today,’ she began

And Kim added that she is ‘basically raising four kids by [herself] here.’

The reality TV star went on to say that she feels like a ‘pit stop of a race car driver’ because she juggles so much and admitted to feeling overwhelmed.

‘Even though we have great support systems and we have people around us, but sometimes in the middle of the night when [the kids are] all sleeping in your bed, kicking you and crying and waking up, like, it is…,’ she said, before trialing off.

‘It’s not something I talk about a lot because I feel like there is always a lot of judgment. Or people will always jump to the, “Oh, but you have the resources to have nannies and to have help.”‘

Kim recently faced some of that ‘judgement when she allowed Saint to reinstate his YouTube channel exactly one month after taking down the profile.

She took down Saint’s account in late October after two posts critical of Vice President Kamala Harris were shared on the account ahead of the election.

But last week, Kim advertised on her Instagram that Saint’s channel was back up and she encouraged people to ‘follow’ him on the platform.

The post, which has since been deleted, earned mixed reactions from fans.

Nearly two years after their February 2021 split, Kim and ex Kanye finalized their divorce and reached a custody settlement in November 2022.

‘I was going through my photos and most of our pics are snuggling cuddling pics,’ she wrote

Kim continued: ‘I always wanna believe that my little man will be this snuggly forever! So cheers to one of my soulmates for being the sweetest boy’

She concluded her heartfelt message with: ‘Happy 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡day. I love you’

The photos shared by Kim gave fans a look at the mother-son duo’s tight bond

Kim’s post comes amid dad Kanye West’s apparent absence from their four kids’ lives — two years after he and his ex-wife reached a ‘joint custody’ agreement

The Flashing Lights hitmaker agreed to pay Kim $200,000 a month in 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 support and they agreed on joint legal and physical custody with ‘equal access’ to the kids, as reported by TMZ at the time.

One month later, Kim appeared on the Angie Martinez IRL podcast, where she broke down in tears over how ‘difficult’ it’s been co-parenting with her ex-husband.

She also said she does her best to shield her four kids from his controversies.

‘One day my kids will thank me … for not bashing their dad,’ the billionaire told Martinez.

Kim is currently preparing for another holiday season as a single mom.

On Thursday, the SKKN by Kim founder showed off her family’s extravagant holiday decor on Instagram.

She uploaded clips of her 20 foot Christmas tree in the foyer of her mansion.

She also revealed that she has continued her tradition of waking up her kids with holiday music being played on the piano- which could be heard in the clip.

Two Grammy-award winning producer and writer Philip Cornish — who also happens to be the music director for Kanye — was the pianist playing in the Thursday morning clips.

Along with Saint, Kim is also mom to North, 11, Chicago, six, and Psalm, five

She shares all four kids with ex-husband Kanye West, who hasn’t been photographed publicly with their 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren in nearly three months; the exes seen in 2019

Also on Thursday, Kim shared clips of her 20 foot Christmas tree in the foyer of her mansion

‘Waking up my kids to the piano playing every morning fills our home with so much joy,’ Kim wrote in the clip shared Thursday.

She has explained in years past that Phil comes over every day during the holiday season to play the holiday music to wake the kids up ‘by playing the piano while mad morning rush is happening to calm their little souls and fill it with beautiful Christmas songs’ she explained in 2022.

Kim has documented the tradition on her Instagram page since 2021 – with Phil playing the piano every day during the holiday season for the past three years.

It is unknown how many years she has done this tradition but she started documenting it on social media in 2021.