Friday, September 28, 2012
Khloe & Lamar to launch a second fragance 'Untouchable Joy'
Khroma Beauty's promo pictures!
These are such fabulous ads that were recently released in anticipation of the launch of Kim, Kourtney & Khloe's beauty line, Khroma Beauty! The ads feature their luxury lash collection, Lash Dash, debuting this holiday season. For more infos on their new and gorgeous line, GO HERE.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Kim & Khloe Kardashian out and about in Miami with Mercy (September 16th)
Kim and Khloe Kardashian paraded around a white kitten with her sister Khloe while filming their hit reality show in Miami. (September 16th) Kim was wearing her Kanye designed white Giuseppe Zanotti heels and Khloe her Maison Martin Margiela Open-Toe Ankle Boots.
Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian and children arrive in Miami (September 15th)
Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian were met by a film crew as they arrived at Miami International Airport and after at their 6$ millions mansion with Mason and Penelope. Kourtney pushed her young daughter Penelope in a stroller, while sister Khloe took charge of smiling Mason. The sisters are in Miami to film the new season of their popular reality show which will be called 'Kim and Kourtney take Miami'. Their sister Khloe, will also join the show as she has an important part on it!
Friday, September 14, 2012
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian's meet and greet at Sears, Yonkers (September 14th)
Khloe, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian were celebrating the 1 year anniversary of the Kardashian Kollection at Sears Yonkers on September 14th doing a meet and greet! They all rocked their fabolous Kardashian Kollection outfits!
Kim Kardashian Grabs Ice Cream Before Dinner with Kanye West (September 13th)
Kim Kardashian was spotted stepping out of her car to pick up an ice cream cone from a local truck in Soho, New York before having dinner with her boyfriend Kanye West on September 13th. Kim was wearing Gianvito Rossi Ankle Wrap Pump and a Balmain Double Breasted Wool Twill Dress
Thursday, September 13, 2012
SCOTT DISICK HOSTS – tryst * fridays – 4AM LAST CALL
Scott Disick will be hosting a red carpet event tomorrow night (September 14th) in Toronto, Canada at the TRYST Restaurant. Tryst has been designed to excite the senses. Each salon offers the luxuries of a premiere nightclub and the amenities of a world-class venue. Near the main entrance, the double-height Havana Lounge wraps each guest in the richness of teal wood paneling; elegant columns.
By the way, there will be two DJs for the event, Aristotle in the loft, and DJ AADIL in the Mandi room. For more info feel free to call 416.588.7978 or go on www.trysttoronto.com
Kim, Khloe & Kourtney Kardashian off to a business meeting (September 13th)
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian were spotted heading to a business design meeting for their line Kardashian Kollection's clothing line in Midtown Manhattan as they hit the promotional circuit together. This was such a busy day for our beauty fashion stylists: they woke up at 4:30 a.m. for heading to the famous talk show 'Good Morning America', they came back in their hotel for a little break and they gone to this business meeting! GO KARDASHIANS!
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian make a little stop in their hotel in NYC (September 13th)
After their gorgeous apparence at Good Morning America early today, Kim, Kourtney and Khloe made a little stop in their hotel in NYC, for re-leaving it for heading to a business meeting in New York for their line Kardashian Kollection (September 13th)
Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian at Good Morning America (September 13th)
Earlier today (September 13) Kim, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe dropped by “Good Morning America.” for promoting the Fall 2012 collection of their line Kardashian Kollection! They were all wearing Kardashian Kollection!
The E! reality television stars looked top-notch as they worked their magic for the shutterbugs prior to giving an energetic interview at the Times Square studios.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye at Louise Goldin Spring 2013 fashion show in NYC (September 12th)
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were spotted attending Louise Goldin Spring 2013 fashion show at Milk Studios on September 12, 2012 in New York City. Kim, who with her boy was attending the second fashion show yesterday, changed her style from the Marchesa Show and has weared a Louise Goldin dress and Céline black calf velvet Mulese sandals
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West at the Marchesa Spring 2013 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were seen attending the Marchesa spring 2013 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal on September 12, 2012 in New York City. Kim was amazing in a Marchesa's dress and shoes by Jimmy Choo Anouk Metallic Leather Pump
Kim Kardashian at the LAX Airport, California (September 12th)
Kim Kardashian was seen arriving in style to LAX Los Angeles Airport to catch a flight for NYC where she's actually for a meet and greet, some fashion shows and more with her beau Kanye West . The sexy woman was wearing Hermes Birkin Bag in Black Croc and Givenchy Shark Lock Fold Over Wedge Boot.
Kendall Jenner walks at Tumbler And Tipsy by Michael Kuluva Spring 2013 fashion show (September 11th)
Kendall Jenner was at the Tumbler And Tipsy By Michael Kuluva Spring 2013 fashion show, held at Style360 in the Metropolitan Pavillion in New York City, Tuesday, September 11, 2012 as she modelled there. Also her mom Kris was there supporting her amazing daughter!
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Kim Kardashian vs Jada Pinkett-Smith: WHO WORE THIS DRESS BEST?
Jada Pinkett-Smith was spotted wearing the same Tom Ford dress at the Toronto Film Festival that Kim wore at the BET Awards a few months ago. Who wrote this dress best? VOTE!
Kylie Jenner walking the Abbey Dawn by Avril Lavigne's runway (September 10)
Kylie Jenner rocked the Abbey Dawn by Avril Lavigne's runway! Kylie modelled for the famous singer and fashion designer for the second time this year! 'I love Avril. I love her; I love her clothes, so it was such an honor to be in [her show]. It was so much fun.' - Kylie Jenner.
Kylie Jenner attends Abbey Dawn By Avril Lavigne Spring 2013 show in NYC (September 11th)
Kylie Jenner was spotted attending the Abbey Dawn By Avril Lavigne Spring 2013 show at the Metropolitan Pavilion on September 10, in New York City. Kylie modelled for the second time this year, and she rocked it! On the red-carpet, Kylie was wearing Christian Louboutin Daffodile Pumps in Leopard and Abbey Dawn's skirt and t-shirt.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Kris Jenner covers September 17's New Idea Australia isse
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: KRIS JENNER’S BIKINI BODYThis week the 56-year-old ‘mumager’ and Kardashian family matriarch shows off her bikini body exclusively to New Idea, in a series of photographs that will have the whole world talking!
TARA’S REAL LIFE HORROR: ‘I SURVIVED MONSTER CROC’Stepping into a crystal blue freshwater pool to cool off from the Kimberley heat in far north-west WA, Tara Hawkes was joking with her friends when something powerful grabbed her left leg. ‘I felt this impact – bang – and I was pulled under water. Straight away I knew it was a crocodile,’ reveals the 23-year-old in a world exclusive interview with New Idea.
AUSSIE MIDWIFE SHOCK: ALL WOMEN SHOULD HAVE HOME BIRTHS
When Aristea became a midwife, the best part of her job was watching men cry as their children were born. Each day she enjoyed going to work and helping deliver babies. But over the years, some of the hospital protocols made her question whether a hospital is the best place for a woman to give birth. New Idea looks at the pros and cons of home births, with some celebrity opinions that may raise eyebrows.
BRIAN AND VOGUE’S ITALIAN WEDDINGOn September 2, just 16 months after their first meeting, Brian McFadden and Vogue Williams said ‘I do’. While the bride, 26, looked stunning in a J’Aton gown surrounded by six beautiful bridesmaids, Brian wasn’t quite so lucky with best mate and groomsman Kyle Sandilands reported absent on the day - despite arriving in Florence 24 hours earlier.
SEAL’S SHOCK INTERVIEW: HEIDI’S ROMP WITH THE BODYGUARD!The acrimonious slanging match between Seal and his estranged wife Heidi Klum has come to a very public head, with the release of pictures of the singer confronting the ‘other man’ in their alleged love triangle – her bodyguard Martin Kristen. The scene came amid an explosive statement by Seal, in which he implied his wife has been cheating. ‘Seal was seeing the kids in NYC and Martin took the opportunity to “have words” with him,’ a family insider tells New Idea. It’s no secret the two men don’t get on, with Seal saying of the security man’s connection to Heidi: ‘I didn’t expect anything better from him.’
NEW IDEA FOOD: SPRING STIR-FRIESFrom ocean trout with spinach and crispy noodles, duck with chilli jam and cashews, lemon chicken with asparagus and more, New Idea dishes out crisp and clean Asian flavours perfect for the change in season.
Kourtney Kardashian and children Mason and Penelope at the LAX Airport (September 9th)
Kourtney Kardashian was spotted at the LAX Airport with her children Mason and Penelope. The trio was getting ready for head to NYC (September 9th), where Kendall, Kylie and Scott already are. Also Kourtney's mom is in New York as she has to go live on QVC for presenting her line 'Kris Jenner Kollection' today.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Kim Kardashian: My life as a brand. Inteview for Guardian Weekend UK
Kim Kardashian is in a makeup chair under giant rollers, looking down at her phone and intermittently up again, to meet her own eye in the mirror. We are at a studio in a Los Angeles suburb; various stylists and Kardashian hangers-on fill the room. "One second," says the star's assistant, calling the group to order. Kardashian frowns at her phone. "You guys," she says, "what should I say? You guys?" There is a moment's hush; Kardashian is passing a tweet.
For those few who haven't yet had the pleasure, Kardashian is a 31-year-old US reality TV star, lately prominent in Britain, who has, since becoming famous in 2007, ascended to the level of a symptom in the culture. Keeping Up With The Kardashians, currently in its seventh season, is contrived, sensationalist, repetitive and witless, but no more so than a lot of things one enjoys without accusing them of spiritual corruption. The difference in this case is reach. Twitter is an unreliable measure of influence, but Kardashian has nearly 16 million followers, putting her ninth in the world, three places behind President Obama. (Lady Gaga is number one; Taylor Swift number eight.) With her two sisters, Khloé and Kourtney, she runs a chain of clothing stores called Dash, has a Las Vegas-based outlet called Kardashian Khaos, promotes makeup and fashion lines under the label Kardashian Kollection, all of which act as window dressing for the business, merely, of being Kim Kardashian: a woman of above average looks, seemingly rather nice, who along with the rest of her family – emotionally speaking – strips on TV for tips. After the shoot, we sit in a courtyard at the back of the studio and Kardashian tries to explain what the fuss is about.
There is an awful lot of fuss. For Kardashian haters, the tipping point came last year when she filed for divorce from Kris Humphries, a basketball player, after three months of marriage and a blizzard of wedding coverage said to have been worth many millions (she will dispute the numbers). The whole thing looked like a stunt to drum up trade for her TV show, although if it was, it backfired in that for a short while she was reviled as the most cynical woman in America. She seems to aggravate male actors in particular. Earlier this year, Jon Hamm unchivalrously referred to her as a "fucking idiot" in Elle magazine, as did Daniel Craig in GQ the year before. Kardashian takes all this with a certain laconic indifference, the standard LA response, heightened by what is probably an effort not to emote too much and generate wrinkles.
"When I hear people say [what are you famous for?], I want to say, what are you talking about?" she says slowly, her eyes wide as a bushbaby's. "I have a hit TV show. We've shot more episodes than I Love Lucy! We've been on the air longer than The Andy Griffith Show! I mean, these are iconic shows, so it blows my mind when people say that."
But you're not performing; you're just being followed around by cameras…
"But to be able to open up your life like that and to be so… if everyone could do it, everyone would. It doesn't make sense to me."
The day before the interview, I go to Dash in Beverly Hills, the flagship store aimed at Kardashian's teen fan base. A bouncer stands outside letting teenagers in one by one, although the store is almost empty. "There's a line!" he calls out to baffled passers-by, and the teenagers snigger. Inside, the clothes are very nice; soft T-shirts, cute shorts and dresses, but that isn't why people are here. Kardashian says that since the show started airing, the store has become a "tourist attraction" and the stock is angled accordingly. After taking photos of themselves in front of a giant Kardashian family montage, the adolescents buy one of several items within their price-range; a $20 compact mirror; pencils for a few dollars; or a $10 bottle of water with the Kardashian sisters' photo on one side.
"Our water sells out all the time," Kardashian says. "People collect them because each store has a different picture on the bottle."
That's amazing.
"It's really crazy," she says. "I mean, a water bottle? It's crazy." She blinks slowly at the wonder of effortless profiteering.
Kardashian characterises her typical fan as "a younger girl, like 15 or 16, who loves fashion, loves to be a girly girl, loves beauty, glam", and whom she respects as a backwards projection of herself. If you can overlook the vacant materialism, she is in some ways not a bad role model. She points out that she is not "your stick-skinny typical model"; that she doesn't go out on benders; that she tries not to swear too much. "I remember this one time when I used the F-word – and everyone was like, I can't believe you said that! You never say that! I am really cautious about what I say and do. If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you."
Whether or not you approve of the show, she has wrought a successful business out of thin air. It's also worth pointing out, given how snotty the fashion industry is towards Kim Kardashian, that to anyone's knowledge she has never thrown her phone at a personal assistant.
And yet she makes people incredibly angry. "Yeah. I have no idea why. I work really hard – I have seven appointments tomorrow before 10am. I'm constantly on the go. I have a successful clothing line. A fragrance. I mean, acting and singing aren't the only ways to be talented. It's a skill to get people to really like you for you, instead of a character written for you by somebody else."
She is currently dating Kanye West, who might have had a hand in the following analogy. "When rap music first started," Kardashian says, "rappers were not respected and people thought it was just a fad. And people thought reality shows were going to come and go. They have taken over the soap operas. So it's a modern version of a soap opera."
The difference, of course, is that the Kardashians are purporting to sell something real. For bald cheek, nothing matches a recent scene in the show in which Kardashian balked at attending a family therapy session because, she said, she didn't feel like sharing family secrets "with a stranger". Very occasionally, a genuine emotion is caught on camera and stands out in relief to the rest of the show – most recently during a staged discussion about Khloé's paternity; while her mother and sisters mugged centre screen, Khloé, to one side, looked fleetingly devastated.
Despite all the phoniness, rehearsed dialogue and fake scenarios, however, there is some grain of authenticity to the Kardashians to which fans respond: when I asked teenagers at Dash why they liked the show, the most common reason was that, despite all the drama, "they all really love each other and are such a close family". Like the Osbournes before them, the Kardashian family unit is convincingly tight. There is something unexpectedly soothing about this.
For the record then, what is Kardashian's talent?
"What is my talent?" She cocks her head to one side. "Well, a bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he's talented, but he's not famous. Do you know what I mean?"
The mastermind behind the Kardashian empire is assumed to be Kris Jenner, mother, manager and ringmaster of her children's careers, who comes across on the show as a gimlet-eyed monster, wringing every last dollar from the family conceit. Despite her 100% belief in the reality genre, Kim Kardashian has to admit she is very glad she went through adolescence off-camera, unlike her youngest sisters, who were nine and 10 when the show started. (Their father is Bruce Jenner, the former Olympic athlete and Kris's second husband, whose career as a motivational speaker she reignited after marrying him. Her first husband, Robert Kardashian, who died in 2003, was OJ Simpson's lawyer.)
"I feel a little bit sad for my little sisters," Kardashian says. "If there's one thing I'm so thankful I have, it's that privacy of pretty much my whole life until seven years ago."
It was a spoilt childhood, materially – her father was a wealthy entrepreneur as well as a lawyer – and it's a mark of the milieu they grew up in that the Kardashian girls and their brother, Rob, were considered deprived because their parents wouldn't give them their own credit cards.
But her dad bought them each a car, right?
"He gave us a car, but I had to sign a contract with him before I got it."
The contract said she had to have it washed once a week; had to make sure it always had gas. "And my grades had to be at a certain average to keep the car. If I crashed it, I had to be responsible for paying for it." She did crash it, within the first six months, and got a job to pay for the repairs.
This was the beginning of Kardashian's career. She found work in a clothing store and liked it so much that, after paying off the car, she kept the job. She started to design her own accessories. "I would make these headbands that were really popular and I'd sell them to all the fun stores in LA. I would make them after school and go around selling them."
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Photograph: Billy Farrell Agency/Rex Features
She and her sisters periodically lived with their father at this point, their parents' marriage having disintegrated after Kris Jenner had an affair with a 22-year-old. Fault lines in the family were, bizarrely, crystallised by the OJ Simpson trial. Kardashian's mother had been one of Nicole Brown Simpson's best friends and was supposed to have seen her on the day she was murdered; she believed OJ was guilty. Robert Kardashian was one of OJ's best friends and defended him.
"We were kids – 14 and 15 years old, me and Kourtney," Kim says. "We took my dad's side. Just because my dad was not married and my mum kind of broke his heart. It was personal. And we thought that my dad was the smartest man in the whole world. And if he thought he was innocent, we were going to be on that side."
One day, their father came to them and said, "Girls, this is a huge trial and is going to be a part of history, and I think you guys are old enough to handle it." They went into court with him and sat in the OJ camp. "And my mum had gone with Bruce and she was sitting on the Brown side – on Nicole's side. And she turned around and gave as a stare like, I don't even want to see you guys when you get home. We wouldn't even look her way. She was so mad."
This was the beginning of the family's life in the spotlight, although Kardashian had always wanted to be on TV. She watched the first MTV reality show, The Real World, and thought that's what she wanted to do.
What, be on a reality show? "Yes. I wasn't thinking fame. I was just thinking how cool." Why? "I don't know; I just thought my life seemed interesting. I thought, if only people knew the crazy things that go on in this household, it would be so funny. And everyone kept saying that. They'd come over and be like, 'Oh my God, you need your own reality show.' I was always on board. Kourtney was the one who wasn't."
Kim inched farther towards her goal when she started knocking around with Paris Hilton, and then, in 2003, she made a sex tape with her then boyfriend, the singer Ray J. The tape was eventually leaked and a star was born. (In a rare moment of coyness, Kris Jenner, in her memoir, glosses over this momentous turning point in the family history: "There was so much media coverage swirling around Kim then, both positive and negative.") Anyway, to "take advantage of the moment", Jenner made a pilot of the family and took it to Ryan Seacrest at US TV network E! Word came back that there were too many characters, too many siblings and that it was confusing. But Seacrest ultimately backed the show, correctly intuiting that, as with band members, young fans would be able to choose which of the three sisters was their favourite: blank but beautiful Kim, sweet Kourtney or sarcastic Khloé. Meanwhile, Jenner's conniving entertained adults and, for comic relief, there was Bruce, bobbing around in the background, looking more startled with each season and new wave of plastic surgery.
It's no small thing to keep a reality show afloat, and even Kardashian admits that by season four the family was getting panicky about content. "I was like, 'You guys, I don't know that I have much more to give. I can only be myself, like… we're so boring now, we've shown everything.'"
And? "And then Khloé got married, Kourtney got pregnant and everything else just happened organically."
OK. So here's the thing: surely, living under that kind of pressure to feed the beast, one is tempted to say yes to things one might otherwise say no to, for example marrying Kris Humphries and then divorcing Kris Humphries. It doesn't even have to be mercenary; just a matter of needing to Make Something – Anything – Happen.
"Not really. We had done filming our season at that point, so we decided to film for the wedding. And that was a decision that he and I made together. But I think that, with any decisions in life [brace yourselves], like, I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel."
There is no ethical dimension to Kardashian's defence of her marriage, merely the rationale that it would have made bad commercial sense to have faked it. "Getting married and divorced quickly, if that was my goal the whole time – I'm not an idiot, I obviously know that that would be a bad business decision. If anything, I probably would have left sooner had I not been filming, because I didn't want to end the relationship on TV." The sums of money she was said to have made are "completely outrageous and not true", she says. "No, I mean even with the money we made, we still had to pay for the wedding. We didn't even make enough for that."
So if you married again, would you sell the rights? "I would definitely do it differently. Just all the scrutiny that I got. You don't plan to go through all of that willingly. For money." Her voice rises out of its Californian drawl and sounds momentarily urgent. "That's just not what a sane person would do. So. Would I get married on TV again? No."
She thinks about it for a moment. "Well, I guess you never say never. Because who knows? So many other people I know have gotten married on TV and it has worked out amazing for them."
There is a pause. "William and Kate got married on TV," Kardashian says thoughtfully.
Not all the endorsement deals have been successful. There was a debit card ("the Kardashian Kard") that had high hidden fees and from which, after a firestorm in the press, the family distanced themselves; and a diet product that is currently the subject of a lawsuit. Of the card, Kardashian says, "definitely not the right deal for us. It sounded like a good idea when we went into it, but there were all these hidden fees and costs that even we didn't know about. Although, if you looked at it, it was still a lower percentage than the bank gives you on a credit card."
(It's true that $10 a month fees for prepaid debit cards are not unusual, although there were other fees attached – $1.50 to ring the service centre for example – which looked, given the age of the target market, a little ungenerous.) In Kardashian world, attracting bad PR is a moral failing. "For us, we just didn't want that negative press, so we backed off." As for QuickTrim, the diet product, "If you look at every diet product, there's tons of lawsuits. So that is a successful product, actually."
Kardashian has probably attracted more criticism for her decision to pose topless in Playboy and W magazines, something she hesitated over, but her mother talked her into. Good old Kris. Her father would have been horrified, Kardashian says. "He would have killed me."
But her mum? "Oh, she was all for it."
Doesn't she think it undermines her credibility as a business person? "No, sex is powerful and I think it's empowering, so I don't. I would have thought that before, but now I don't. I go back and forth about it."
The point is that men in her position would not be asked to pose naked. "Yeah!" she says with wonder, as if we have hit upon yet another feminist advantage in the world. "I think it's empowering and I'll do what I want!"
She has at least been consistent in this. In her early 20s, long before the show, Kardashian was married to a musician called Damon Thomas, a fact she shared with her family only after the event. When I ask why she didn't tell her mother she was getting married, she has what looks like a rare, unstudied reaction. With a shuttered look, Kardashian says, "Just a bad choice on my part."
For months after the second marriage debacle, Kardashian says she stopped Googling herself, as near to a breakdown a member of that family can get. She changed her email address. She lost friends. "All these people who were so on my side completely turned on me, and they're now trying to come back and be friends."
Her pairing with Kanye West is odd; he so outspoken and political, Kardashian so neutral on almost everything. The first time she voted in her life was for Obama. "I loved being part of that decision-making process, but I never voted in prior years when I was legally eligible. I don't know why." She is, she says, a "liberal Republican", put off Mitt Romney because of his stance against gay marriage. This election, she says, "I don't know which way I'm going to go." Her favourite politician of all time is Kennedy.
Kanye will appear intermittently in the next season of the show. They are taking their relationship "season by season". "It's what we're both comfortable with, and it's all about making a group decision. Him and I, as a team."
I imagine Kris Jenner might be in that decision, too. Won't the day come, I ask, when Kardashian rises up and overthrows her mother? She actually breaks out an annoyed facial expression. "We are totally equal. She listens to what I say. She follows my lead. She works for me. I mean, on the show maybe it doesn't come off that way…"
Meanwhile, another generation of Kardashians is emerging to fill the endless hours of scheduling. Kourtney's child Mason, a toddler, now takes up a good part of many episodes. Khloé and her husband Lamar have their own show, Khloé & Lamar. The other day, Lamar went to the dentist. If Kardashian had a baby, she says, she would probably put it on TV, with certain caveats. For example, with Mason, "he can come in and say, hi/bye, and that's it", but isn't allowed to drive story lines.
The point is, she has more perspective these days. The marriage crisis changed her. "I'm leaning more towards being a little more private."
So she might potentially say no to another season? Kardashian blinks. "I never said I wouldn't do the family show." But it's very possible, she says, that the universe has shifted enough for her to say words she couldn't have imagined herself saying a year ago, an extraordinary break with Kardashian family values: "I'll never do a spin-off."
She and her sisters periodically lived with their father at this point, their parents' marriage having disintegrated after Kris Jenner had an affair with a 22-year-old. Fault lines in the family were, bizarrely, crystallised by the OJ Simpson trial. Kardashian's mother had been one of Nicole Brown Simpson's best friends and was supposed to have seen her on the day she was murdered; she believed OJ was guilty. Robert Kardashian was one of OJ's best friends and defended him.
"We were kids – 14 and 15 years old, me and Kourtney," Kim says. "We took my dad's side. Just because my dad was not married and my mum kind of broke his heart. It was personal. And we thought that my dad was the smartest man in the whole world. And if he thought he was innocent, we were going to be on that side."
One day, their father came to them and said, "Girls, this is a huge trial and is going to be a part of history, and I think you guys are old enough to handle it." They went into court with him and sat in the OJ camp. "And my mum had gone with Bruce and she was sitting on the Brown side – on Nicole's side. And she turned around and gave as a stare like, I don't even want to see you guys when you get home. We wouldn't even look her way. She was so mad."
This was the beginning of the family's life in the spotlight, although Kardashian had always wanted to be on TV. She watched the first MTV reality show, The Real World, and thought that's what she wanted to do.
What, be on a reality show? "Yes. I wasn't thinking fame. I was just thinking how cool." Why? "I don't know; I just thought my life seemed interesting. I thought, if only people knew the crazy things that go on in this household, it would be so funny. And everyone kept saying that. They'd come over and be like, 'Oh my God, you need your own reality show.' I was always on board. Kourtney was the one who wasn't."
Kim inched farther towards her goal when she started knocking around with Paris Hilton, and then, in 2003, she made a sex tape with her then boyfriend, the singer Ray J. The tape was eventually leaked and a star was born. (In a rare moment of coyness, Kris Jenner, in her memoir, glosses over this momentous turning point in the family history: "There was so much media coverage swirling around Kim then, both positive and negative.") Anyway, to "take advantage of the moment", Jenner made a pilot of the family and took it to Ryan Seacrest at US TV network E! Word came back that there were too many characters, too many siblings and that it was confusing. But Seacrest ultimately backed the show, correctly intuiting that, as with band members, young fans would be able to choose which of the three sisters was their favourite: blank but beautiful Kim, sweet Kourtney or sarcastic Khloé. Meanwhile, Jenner's conniving entertained adults and, for comic relief, there was Bruce, bobbing around in the background, looking more startled with each season and new wave of plastic surgery.
It's no small thing to keep a reality show afloat, and even Kardashian admits that by season four the family was getting panicky about content. "I was like, 'You guys, I don't know that I have much more to give. I can only be myself, like… we're so boring now, we've shown everything.'"
And? "And then Khloé got married, Kourtney got pregnant and everything else just happened organically."
OK. So here's the thing: surely, living under that kind of pressure to feed the beast, one is tempted to say yes to things one might otherwise say no to, for example marrying Kris Humphries and then divorcing Kris Humphries. It doesn't even have to be mercenary; just a matter of needing to Make Something – Anything – Happen.
"Not really. We had done filming our season at that point, so we decided to film for the wedding. And that was a decision that he and I made together. But I think that, with any decisions in life [brace yourselves], like, I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel."
There is no ethical dimension to Kardashian's defence of her marriage, merely the rationale that it would have made bad commercial sense to have faked it. "Getting married and divorced quickly, if that was my goal the whole time – I'm not an idiot, I obviously know that that would be a bad business decision. If anything, I probably would have left sooner had I not been filming, because I didn't want to end the relationship on TV." The sums of money she was said to have made are "completely outrageous and not true", she says. "No, I mean even with the money we made, we still had to pay for the wedding. We didn't even make enough for that."
So if you married again, would you sell the rights? "I would definitely do it differently. Just all the scrutiny that I got. You don't plan to go through all of that willingly. For money." Her voice rises out of its Californian drawl and sounds momentarily urgent. "That's just not what a sane person would do. So. Would I get married on TV again? No."
She thinks about it for a moment. "Well, I guess you never say never. Because who knows? So many other people I know have gotten married on TV and it has worked out amazing for them."
There is a pause. "William and Kate got married on TV," Kardashian says thoughtfully.
Not all the endorsement deals have been successful. There was a debit card ("the Kardashian Kard") that had high hidden fees and from which, after a firestorm in the press, the family distanced themselves; and a diet product that is currently the subject of a lawsuit. Of the card, Kardashian says, "definitely not the right deal for us. It sounded like a good idea when we went into it, but there were all these hidden fees and costs that even we didn't know about. Although, if you looked at it, it was still a lower percentage than the bank gives you on a credit card."
(It's true that $10 a month fees for prepaid debit cards are not unusual, although there were other fees attached – $1.50 to ring the service centre for example – which looked, given the age of the target market, a little ungenerous.) In Kardashian world, attracting bad PR is a moral failing. "For us, we just didn't want that negative press, so we backed off." As for QuickTrim, the diet product, "If you look at every diet product, there's tons of lawsuits. So that is a successful product, actually."
Kardashian has probably attracted more criticism for her decision to pose topless in Playboy and W magazines, something she hesitated over, but her mother talked her into. Good old Kris. Her father would have been horrified, Kardashian says. "He would have killed me."
But her mum? "Oh, she was all for it."
Doesn't she think it undermines her credibility as a business person? "No, sex is powerful and I think it's empowering, so I don't. I would have thought that before, but now I don't. I go back and forth about it."
The point is that men in her position would not be asked to pose naked. "Yeah!" she says with wonder, as if we have hit upon yet another feminist advantage in the world. "I think it's empowering and I'll do what I want!"
She has at least been consistent in this. In her early 20s, long before the show, Kardashian was married to a musician called Damon Thomas, a fact she shared with her family only after the event. When I ask why she didn't tell her mother she was getting married, she has what looks like a rare, unstudied reaction. With a shuttered look, Kardashian says, "Just a bad choice on my part."
For months after the second marriage debacle, Kardashian says she stopped Googling herself, as near to a breakdown a member of that family can get. She changed her email address. She lost friends. "All these people who were so on my side completely turned on me, and they're now trying to come back and be friends."
Her pairing with Kanye West is odd; he so outspoken and political, Kardashian so neutral on almost everything. The first time she voted in her life was for Obama. "I loved being part of that decision-making process, but I never voted in prior years when I was legally eligible. I don't know why." She is, she says, a "liberal Republican", put off Mitt Romney because of his stance against gay marriage. This election, she says, "I don't know which way I'm going to go." Her favourite politician of all time is Kennedy.
Kanye will appear intermittently in the next season of the show. They are taking their relationship "season by season". "It's what we're both comfortable with, and it's all about making a group decision. Him and I, as a team."
I imagine Kris Jenner might be in that decision, too. Won't the day come, I ask, when Kardashian rises up and overthrows her mother? She actually breaks out an annoyed facial expression. "We are totally equal. She listens to what I say. She follows my lead. She works for me. I mean, on the show maybe it doesn't come off that way…"
Meanwhile, another generation of Kardashians is emerging to fill the endless hours of scheduling. Kourtney's child Mason, a toddler, now takes up a good part of many episodes. Khloé and her husband Lamar have their own show, Khloé & Lamar. The other day, Lamar went to the dentist. If Kardashian had a baby, she says, she would probably put it on TV, with certain caveats. For example, with Mason, "he can come in and say, hi/bye, and that's it", but isn't allowed to drive story lines.
The point is, she has more perspective these days. The marriage crisis changed her. "I'm leaning more towards being a little more private."
So she might potentially say no to another season? Kardashian blinks. "I never said I wouldn't do the family show." But it's very possible, she says, that the universe has shifted enough for her to say words she couldn't have imagined herself saying a year ago, an extraordinary break with Kardashian family values: "I'll never do a spin-off."
Styling by Sophie Assa, make-up by Rob Scheppy for Tom Ford Beauty, hair by Richard Martin for Cloutier Remix/Oribe Hair Caire
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