Loathe as he is of paparazzi, it still seems like Kanye West's ego is firmly intact with the rumours that instead of unsolicited photos of his baba North ending up on the front of tabloid rags around the world, he wants to control the photos with his own special photographer and photo shoot. And then he wants it to go on the cover of Vogue. Riiiiiiiiight.

According to RadarOnline, 'It’s no secret that Kanye is a huge fan of fashion, Vogue and especially Anna Wintour. But it’s also pretty well-known that Anna is NO fan of Kim or any reality star appearing in the pages of the magazine. Kanye is determined to make sure baby North isn’t photographed by paparazzi then splashed across the world. He knows what he wants - a professional photographer and the cover of Vogue - nothing else. But clearly, trying to persuade Anna is going to be an uphill battle.'

Now Wintour has been understandably 'non-pulsed' and 'less than enthusiastic', but that hasn't stopped Kanye from piling on the pressure, going so far as to dig up statistics showing that reality show stars on covers shift a hell of a lot more copies than the norm. The New York Times reported that Kim's cover of Cosmopolitan last year was the magazine's most successful, selling 1.2 million copies.

And then there's the fact that Kim also covered an issue of L’Uomo Vogue, the magazine’s Italian men’s edition, last year where Kanye was on hand to give direction, which he's also hoping will push Wintour in the right direction. Although he has a long way to go, as Vogue editors cropped Kim out of its Best Dressed gallery from the Met Ball red carpet wearing that famous and universally mocked floral print dress and glove outfit..

Kanye is already reaching out to celebrity photogs like Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino to do the shoot, and has Kim working out with top trainers to get into the shape of her life in preparation of the shoot according to 'the source'. 'Kanye is convinced that he’s going to make this happen.'

There are lots of things we think you're capable of Kanye, but this? We very much doubt it.