Kim Kardashian

Kimberly Noel Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) is an American media personality, actress, socialite and businesswoman.
Kim Kardashian first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton, but received wider notice after the sex tape Kim Kardashian, Superstar, which she filmed in 2003 with her then-boyfriend Ray J, was released in 2007.

Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian in 2014
Born	Kimberly Noel Kardashian October 21, 1980 (age 43) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Kim Kardashian West
Occupations	Media personality socialite businesswoman actress
Years active	2003–present
Television	Keeping Up with the Kardashians Kourtney and Kim Take Miami Kourtney and Kim Take New York The Kardashians
Spouses	Damon Thomas ​ ​ (m. 2000; div. 2004)​ Kris Humphries ​ ​ (m. 2011; div. 2013)​ Kanye West ​ ​ (m. 2014; div. 2022)​
Children	4, including North West
Parents	Robert Kardashian (father) Kris Jenner (mother)
Family	Kardashian family
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Later that year, she and her family began to appear on the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which aired until 2021.
Its success led to the formation of three spin-off shows; Kourtney and Kim Take New York (2011–2012), Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (2009–2013) and Hulu’s The Kardashians (2022–present).

Kardashian has developed a significant presence online and across numerous social media platforms, including her hundreds of millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram.

With sisters Kourtney and Khloé, she launched the fashion boutique chain Dash, which operated from 2006 to 2018. Kardashian founded KKW Beauty and KKW Fragrance—both which operated from 2017 till 2022. The former was valued at over US$1 billion as of 2021.

She founded the shaping underwear or foundation garment company Skims in 2019, which is valued at over US$4 billion, as of 2023. Following the closure of her cosmetics and fragrance brands, Kardashian founded her skincare line, Sknn By Kim, in 2022.

She has released a variety of products tied to her name, including the 2014 mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and the 2015 photo book Selfish.
Her acting credits include the films Disaster Movie (2008), Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013), as well as a voice role in two PAW Patrol films (2021); and the twelfth season of the anthology horror series American Horror Story (2023–2024).

She was named on Fortune magazine’s list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. Time magazine included Kardashian on their list of 2015’s 100 most influential people.
Both critics and admirers have described her as exemplifying the notion of being famous for being famous.

She became a billionaire in 2021, and is estimated by Forbes to be worth US$1.7 billion as of 2024 Kardashian has become more politically active by lobbying for prison reform and clemency and as of 2019, is under a four-year law apprenticeship supervised by the legal nonprofit #cut50.
Her relationship with rapper Kanye West has also received significant media coverage; the two of them were married from 2014 to 2022 and have four children together.

Early life and education

Kim Kardashian was born on October 21, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, to Robert and Kris Kardashian (née Houghton).
She has an older sister, Kourtney, a younger sister, Khloé, and a younger brother, Rob. Their mother is of Scottish and Dutch ancestry, while their father is of Armenian descent.

In 1991, their parents divorced and their mother married Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon winner.

As a result of her mother’s remarriage, Kim Kardashian acquired step brothers Burt, Brandon, and Brody; stepsister Casey; and, later, two half-sisters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

Kardashian attended Marymount High School, a Roman Catholic all-girls school in Los Angeles. In 1994, her father represented football player O. J. Simpson during his murder trial. Simpson was Kardashian’s godfather. Kardashian’s father died in 2003 of cancer.

In her teenage years, Kardashian was a close friend of Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, through whom she first garnered media attention.

After totaling her car at age 16, her father agreed to buy her a new one on condition that she agree to be responsible for paying all expenses related to any future damages.

She subsequently began working at Body, a local clothing store in Encino, California, where she worked for four years, assisting in the opening of the Calabasas location. In 2000, after entering into her first marriage, she resigned.

Personal life

Relationships

In 2000, at 19 years old, Kim Kardashian eloped with music producer Damon Thomas. Thomas filed for divorce in 2003.
Kardashian later blamed their separation on physical and emotional abuse on his part and said she was high on ecstasy during their wedding ceremony.

Before her divorce was finalized, Kardashian began dating singer Ray J.

Kardashian then dated Reggie Bush. Their relationship began after Matt Leinart introduced them at the 2007 ESPY Awards.

They split on July 27, 2009 and got back together on September 28, 2009. Kardashian also briefly dated NFL player Miles Austin in 2010.

In May 2011, Kardashian became engaged to NBA player Kris Humphries, then of the New Jersey Nets, whom she had been dating since October 2010. They were married in a wedding ceremony on August 20 in Montecito, California.

Earlier that month, she had released her “wedding fragrance” called “Kim Kardashian Love” which coincided with her own wedding.

A two-part TV special showing the preparations and the wedding itself aired on E! in early October 2011, amidst what The Washington Post called a “media blitz” related to the wedding.

Kardashian filed a suit against Jaxson, saying his claims were untrue, and later settled the case that included an apology from Jaxson.
A widely circulated petition asking to remove all Kardashian-related programming from the air followed the split. The divorce was subject to widespread media attention.

Kardashian began dating rapper and longtime friend Kanye West in April 2012, while still legally married to Humphries.
Her divorce was finalized on June 3, 2013, Kardashian and West became engaged on October 21, Kardashian’s 33rd birthday and married on May 24, 2014, at Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.

Her wedding dress was designed by Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy with some guests’ dresses designed by designer Michael Costello.

The couple’s high status and respective careers have resulted in their relationship becoming subject to heavy media coverage; The New York Times referred to their marriage as “a historic blizzard of celebrity”. West said Kardashian was his muse.

In January 2021, CNN reported that the couple were discussing divorce and on February 19, 2021, Kardashian officially filed for divorce.
In April 2021, they both agreed before court that they would end their marriage due to “irreconcilable differences” and agreed to joint custody of their four children. They also agreed that neither of them need spousal support.

In February 2022, Kardashian filed a complaint to the Los Angeles Superior Court, asking for a quicker proceedings in the divorce from West,
Saying that West was trying to delay it and saying that “Mr. West, by his actions, has made it clear that he does not accept that the parties’ marital relationship is over.”

Kardashian was declared legally single on March 2, 2022. She subsequently dropped “West” as her legal last name and ended their marriage. A post-divorce settlement was reached on November 29, 2022.

Kardashian was in a relationship with actor and comedian Pete Davidson from November 2021 to August 2022.

From September 2023 to March 2024, Kardashian was reportedly in a relationship with NFL wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.

Religion

Kim Kardashian is a Christian and has described herself as “really religious”. She was educated in Christian schools of both the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic traditions.

In October 2019, she was baptized in an Armenian Apostolic ceremony at the baptistery in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral complex and given the Armenian name Heghine (Հեղինէ).

In April 2015, Kardashian and West traveled to the Armenian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem to have their daughter baptized in the Armenian Apostolic Church, one of the oldest denominations of Oriental Orthodox Christianity.

The ceremony took place at the Cathedral of St. James. Khloé Kardashian was appointed as the godmother.
In October 2019, Kim baptized her three younger children at the baptistery in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral complex, Armenia’s mother church.

Health and pregnancies

Kim Kardashian has four children with Kanye West: two daughters (born 2013 and 2018) and two sons (born 2015 and 2019).

Kardashian has publicly discussed difficulties during her first two pregnancies. She experienced pre-eclampsia during her first, which forced her to deliver at 34 weeks.

With both pregnancies, she developed placenta accreta after delivery, eventually undergoing surgery to remove the placenta and scar tissue.

After her second pregnancy, doctors advised her not to become pregnant again; her third and fourth children were born via surrogacy.

Kardashian has also spoken about her psoriasis. In May 2021, it was reported that Kardashian had tested positive for COVID-19 in November 2020.
She confirmed this report but denied reports that she caught the disease after hosting a party at a private island.

Wealth

In May 2014, Kim Kardashian was estimated to be worth US$45 million.

In 2015, Forbes reported she had “made more this year than ever as her earnings nearly doubled to $53 million from 2014’s $28 million”, and reported that she “has monetized fame better than any other”.

Much of her income includes wholesale earnings of the Sears line, the Kardashian Kollection, which brought in $600 million in 2013 and the Kardashian Beauty cosmetics line, Kardashian-branded tanning products, the boutique-line DASH,
As well as sponsored social media posts which are collectively worth $300,000–500,000 per post.

As of July 2018, Kardashian was worth US$350 million. Kardashian does not receive alimony payments from either of her first two marriages. On April 6, 2021, Forbes estimated Kardashian’s net worth at US$1 billion.

Paris robbery

On October 2, 2016, while attending Paris Fashion Week, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in the apartment where she was staying.
Five individuals, dressed as police officers, bound and gagged her, then stole $10 million worth of jewelry.The thieves got in her residence by threatening the concierge.

Once they accessed Kardashian’s room, they held a gun to her head, tying her wrists and legs and wrapping duct tape around her mouth as a gag. Kardashian, who was placed in the bathtub, was physically unharmed and reportedly begged for her life.

She managed to wriggle her hands free from the plastic ties around her wrists and scream for help. The thieves escaped.

On October 6, 2016, it was revealed that filming for the next season of Keeping up with the Kardashians had been placed “on hold indefinitely” after the robbery.

After the robbery was announced, several critics expressed skepticism about whether it was staged or not, with some even drawing comparison to Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s recent false robbery claim.

In response, Kardashian filed lawsuits against several media outlets the following day, and secured a gag order to get the video removed from any articles due to it being part of an active police investigation.

On October 25, 2016, Kardashian dropped the lawsuit, prompting more criticism that the robbery was a ploy to generate media attention. Production resumed on Keeping Up with the Kardashians on October 26.

On January 9, 2017, French police detained 17 persons of interest for questioning in the robbery case. Later in 2017, 16 people were arrested for their alleged involvement.

It was revealed in 2020 that French prosecutors would seek trial for 12 of the suspects. The suspects who allegedly entered her room were of, or near, senior age and were named the ‘Grandpa Robbers’ by the press.

In 2021, the suspects were still awaiting trial with at least one of the five who entered Kardashian’s room reportedly set to plead no contest to the charges.

Activism

During an interview with Caity Weaver of GQ for the July 2016 issue, Kim Kardashian described herself as a Democrat, and declared her support for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

In January 2017, she tweeted a table of statistics that went viral, highlighting statistics that show that gun violence in the United States kills 11,737 people annually while terrorism in the United States kills 14 people annually.

In December 2017, the tweet was mentioned by the Royal Statistical Society in the announcement of its “International Statistic of the Year” for 2017. On a trip to Uganda in October 2018, she and her husband met with President Yoweri Museveni.

They had a press conference, and Kanye talked about tourism in Uganda. They were criticized for meeting Museveni due to his being a dictator and his recent crackdown on the opposition and the Ugandan LGBT community.

In April 2019, Vogue reported that Kardashian was studying to pass the bar exam; instead of attending law school, she is “reading law”.

In 2021, Kardashian said she had failed her first-year law exam (the baby bar) for a second time, performing “slightly worse” than her first attempt earlier in the year. In December 2021, she passed the “baby bar” law exam on her fourth attempt.

In 2020, Kardashian condemned the actions of Azerbaijan in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and expressed her support for Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh.

On November 20, 2021, it was reported that Kardashian and the English soccer club Leeds United F.C., with the help of Rabbi Moshe Margertten of the Tzedek Association, had financially helped female Afghan soccer players to make their way safely to England.
The women and girls had escaped Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, but were stranded in Pakistan.

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