Kim Kardashian

Background

Kim Kardashian was born on October 21, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, to Robert Kardashian and Kris Houghton. Kourtney, Khloé, and Rob are her three siblings. Their mother is of Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, while their father is a third-generation Armenian-American. In the same year that her parents divorced in 1991, her mother married Bruce Jenner, an athlete. Kardashian gained step-brothers Burton, Brandon, and Brody, as well as stepsister Casey and half-sisters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, through their marriage. She attended Marymount High Institution in Los Angeles, a Roman Catholic girls’ school.

She first made headlines in 2003 as a result of her affiliation with well-known socialite Paris Hilton. Her sex tape with her ex-boyfriend, Ray J, taped in 2002, was leaked in 2007, gaining her media exposure. She eventually filed a lawsuit against Vivid Entertainment, the company that released the tape, and settled for $5 million. She and her other family members went on to star in the reality television show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” on October 10, 2007, which was a tremendous success.

In addition to endorsement deals, Kardashian has several business initiatives under her belt, including a line of workout D.V.D.s, a credit card, a line of beauty goods, and a game app that allows users to create their own celebrity. She founded the Skims shapewear firm in 2019. Her immense popularity led to film appearances, and she made her big-screen debut in the film “Disaster Movie” (2008). Kardashian had several other notable television appearances. She is most known for her role in the 2011 to 2012 spin-off series “Kourtney and Kim Take New York.” She and other members of the family secured a production deal with the streaming site Hulu in 2020, and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” concluded on March 18, 2021, after 20 seasons. Kardashian became engaged in prison reform in the late 2010s, and as a result of her work, various incarcerated people were released. In 2018, she was instrumental in getting Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender serving a life sentence, a presidential pardon. The Justice Project, a television documentary about Kardashian, premiered in 2020.

Kardashian’s personal life received a lot of interest, and she frequently appeared in the tabloids. Before meeting rapper and longtime friend Kanye West, she had two failed marriages. Kardashian and West got engaged on her 33rd birthday, October 21, and got married on May 24, 2014. They had four children: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm. CNN reported in 2021 that the pair were considering divorce. Following “irreconcilable differences,” Kardashian filed for divorce on February 19, 2021, and it was finalized on March 2, 2021. That same year, Kardashian went back into the dating scene when she began dating actor and comedian Pete Davidson in November 2021.