Kim Kardashian gave her brother's ex Adrienne Bailon a shout-out while watching 'The Cheetah Girls' with North West: 'This could have been her auntie'

• Kim Kardashian West revealed that her 5-year-old daughter North has a "new obsession" with the Disney Channel original movie "The Cheetah Girls."
• This is particularly amazing because one of the film's main actresses, Adrienne Bailon, dated Kim's brother Rob Kardashian.
• "Should I break the news to North that this could [have] been her auntie?!?!?!" Kim wrote in her Instagram story.

According to Kim Kardashian West, her 5-year-old daughter has a "new obsession" with "The Cheetah Girls." And why shouldn't she? It's the story of four talented and diverse young women who chase their ambitions, support one another, and sing catchy girl-power anthems. Confirmed: North West has excellent taste.

Of course, North is regularly exposed to headstrong and self-sufficient women— but as her mom pointed out, there may be another, subtler reason why she gravitated towards this movie.

While Kardashian West documented their mother-daughter movie night on Instagram, she took the opportunity to shout-out her brother's ex-girlfriend, Adrienne Bailon, who stars in the three "Cheetah Girls" films as Chanel Simmons.

"Should I break the news to North that this could [have] been her auntie?!?!?!" Kim captioned a follow-up video. 

Clearly the two are still on good terms, because Kim had no problem tagging Bailon in each update — and Bailon loved it.

"Just woke up to this! LOL," Bailon wrote in a re-post shared to her own Instagram story. "HYSTERICAL."

She also captioned one re-post "CHEETAHLICIOUS," quoting an iconic catchprase from the 2003 Disney Channel original movie.

Bailon dated Kim's brother Rob Kardashian from 2007 to 2009. During their two-year relationship, Bailon appeared in multiple episodes of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and became close with his famous sisters. In fact, Bailon once revealed that Kourtney Kardashian was her supportive "breakup buddy" during the emotional time.

Kim continued her trip down memory lane by revealing that she and Rob had helped create an "epic" homemade horror movie with Bailon while she and the Cheetah Girls were on tour in 2008. It's titled "Meow," there are three parts, and yes — you can find it on YouTube.

"You have to watch," Kim wrote on Twitter.

Of course, in our current timeline, Rob shares a young daughter with his most recent ex-girlfriend Blac Chyna, while Bailon married gospel singer Israel Houghton in 2016 — so it's unlikely that we'll be getting a sequel to "Meow" anytime soon.

Whether or not Bailon and North ever actually meet, it's clear from North's cheetahlicious attitude (and wardrobe) that they would get along just fine.

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