Kim Kardashian Biography

Kim Kardashian Biography

Kim Kardashian Biography

Conceived 

Kimberly Noel Kardashian 

October 21, 1980 (age 40) 

Los Angeles, California, U.S. 

Different names 

Heghine (Armenian Orthodox baptismal name) 

Occupation 

Media personalitysocialitemodelbusinesswomanproduceractress 

A long time dynamic 

2003–present 

Known for 

Kim Kardashian, Superstar 

Staying aware of the Kardashians 

Total assets 

$900 million (June 2020) (estimate)[1] 

Ideological group 

Majority rule (2016–present) 

Conservative (before 2016)[2] 

Spouse(s) 

Damon Thomas 

​ 

​(m. 2000; div. 2004)​ 

Kris Humphries 

​ 

​(m. 2011; div. 2013)​ 

Kanye West ​(m. 2014)​ 

Kids 

4 

Parent(s) 

Robert Kardashian (father) 

Kris Jenner (mother) 

Family members 

Kardashian family 

Site 

kkwbeauty.com

Kimberly Noel Kardashian West[3][4] (born October 21, 1980) is an American media character, socialite, model, financial specialist, maker, and entertainer. Kardashian initially acquired media consideration as a companion and stylist of Paris Hilton but got more extensive notification after a 2002 sex tape, Kim Kardashian, Superstar, with her then-boyfriend Ray J was delivered in 2007.[5] Later that year, she and her family began to show up in the E! reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021). Its prosperity before long prompted the making of the spin-off series Kourtney and Kim Take New York (2011–2012) and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (2009–2013). 

Kardashian has built up an online and social media presence, including countless adherents on Twitter and Instagram.[6][7][8] She has delivered an assortment of items attached to her name, including the 2014 mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, an assortment of dress and items, the 2015 photograph book Selfish and her eponymous individual application. Her relationship with rapper Kanye West has likewise got huge media inclusion; the couple wedded in 2014 and have four kids together.[9] As an entertainer, Kardashian has showed up in the films Disaster Movie (2008), Deep in the Valley (2009), and Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013). 

Lately, Kardashian has zeroed in on her own organizations by establishing KKW Beauty and KKW Fragrance in 2017.[10] In 2019, she launched shapewear company Skims, which was recently called "Kimono" however changed its name because of prompt backlash.[11] Kardashian has likewise gotten all the more politically dynamic by campaigning president Donald Trump for jail change and campaigning for Alice Marie Johnson to be allowed clemency.[12] She is additionally wanting to turn into a legal counselor by doing a four-year law apprenticeship that is managed by the legitimate nonprofit #cut50 which was helped to establish by Van Jones.[13][14][15] 

Time magazine remembered Kardashian for their rundown of 2015's 100 most persuasive individuals. The two pundits and admirers have depicted her as epitomizing the thought of being famous for being famous.[16][17][18] She was accounted for to be the most generously compensated unscripted tv character of 2015, with her assessed complete profit surpassing US$53 million.[19] 

Substance 

Early life 

Kim Kardashian was brought into the world on October 21, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, the girl of Robert and Kris (née Houghton).[20] She has a more established sister, Kourtney, a more youthful sister, Khloé, and a more youthful brother, Rob.[21] Their mother is of Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry,[22] while their dad was a third-generation Armenian-American.[23] After their folks separated in 1991, her mom wedded again that year, to Bruce Jenner,[a] the 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon winner.[25] Through their marriage, Kim Kardashian acquired advance siblings Burton "Burt", Brandon, and Brody; step-sister Casey; and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner

She attended Marymount High School, a Roman Catholic all-young ladies school in Los Angeles.[27] In 1994, her dad addressed football player O. J. Simpson during his murder preliminary. Simpson is Kardashian's godfather.[28] Kardashian's dad passed on in 2003 of cancer.[29] In her 20s, Kardashian was the dear companion and beautician of socialite Paris Hilton, through whom she previously accumulated media attention.[6][30] 

Vocation 

Beginnings (2003–2006) 

Kardashian got her first spell in the big time as companion and beautician of Paris Hilton, showing up as a visitor on different scenes of the Hilton-featuring unscripted tv series The Simple Life, somewhere in the range of 2003 and 2006.[31] 

Forward leap with unscripted tv (2006–2009) 

In 2006, Kardashian entered the business world with her two sisters and opened the store shop D-A-S-H in Calabasas, California.[32] In February 2007, a sex tape made by Kardashian and Ray J in 2002 was leaked.[33][34] Kardashian documented a claim against Vivid Entertainment, who conveyed the film as Kim Kardashian, Superstar. She later dropped the suit and settled for a reported US$5 million, permitting Vivid to deliver the tape.[35][36] Several news sources later reprimanded her and the family for utilizing the sex tape's delivery as an exposure trick to advance their forthcoming reality show.[37][38] 

In October 2007, Kardashian, notwithstanding her mom Kris Jenner, her progression parent Caitlyn Jenner, her kin Kourtney, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian, and relatives Kendall and Kylie Jenner, started to show up in the unscripted tv series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.[39] The arrangement demonstrated fruitful for E!, and has prompted the manifestations of side projects including Kourtney and Kim Take New York and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami.[40] In one of the scenes, Kim talked about a proposal from Playboy to seem naked in the magazine.[41] That December, Kardashian presented in a naked pictorial for Playboy.[42] 

In 2008, she made her element film debut in the calamity film spoof Disaster Movie, in which she showed up as a character named Lisa.[43][44] That same year, she was a member on season seven of Dancing with the Stars, where she was collaborated with Mark Ballas. Kardashian was the third challenger to be eliminated.[45] In January 2009, Kardashian showed up during a scene of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in the scene "Advantages". In April, she delivered an exercise DVD arrangement through her TV creation organization Kimsaprincess Productions, LLC which has seen the arrival of three fruitful exercise videos, Fit in Your Jeans by Friday, with mentors Jennifer Galardi and Patrick Goudeau.[32][46][47] Kardashian played Elle in four scenes of the TV series Beyond the Break.[48] 

Kardashian turned into a visitor have of WrestleMania XXIV and visitor judge on America's Next Top Model in August of that year.[49] In September, Fusion Beauty and Seven Bar Foundation launched "Kiss Away Poverty", with Kardashian as the essence of the mission. For each LipFusion lipgloss sold, US$1 went to the Foundation to support ladies business people in the US.[50] The following month, she delivered her first aroma self-named "Kim Kardashian".[51][52] In December 2009, Kardashian showed up on CBS's CSI: NY with Vanessa Minnillo.[53][54] 

Early supports (2010–2013) 

In 2010, Kardashian wandered into a few new support bargains, including embracing different food items for Carl's Jr.[55][56] In January 2010, she featured as Summa Eve in the film Deep in the Valley.[53] In April, Kardashian started contention over the manner in which she held a little cat for a photo, holding it by the mess of its neck.[57] With sisters Kourtney and Khloé, Kardashian is associated with the retail and style ventures. They have dispatched a few attire assortments and aromas. Basic entitlements organization PETA criticized Kardashian for over and over wearing fur garments, and named her as one of the five most exceedingly awful individuals or associations of 2010 when it came to creature welfare.[58] June saw Kardashian visitor star with Khloé and Kourtney as themselves on the season three debut scene of the series 90210.[ 

On July 1, 2010, the New York City branch of Madame Tussauds revealed a wax figure of Kardashian.[60] In November, Kardashian filled in as maker for The Spin Crowd, an unscripted tv show about Command PR, a New York City public relations firm, run by Jonathan Cheban and Simon Huck. The show followed them as they subside into their new workplaces in Los Angeles. That month, she additionally showed up on season ten of The Apprentice.[61][62] Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé composed a life account titled Kardashian Konfidential, which was delivered in stores on November 23, and showed up on New York Times's Best Seller List.

In December 2010, Kardashian shot a music video for a melody named "Jam (Turn It Up)." The video was coordinated by Hype Williams; Kanye West makes an appearance in the video.[64] Kardashian debuted the tune during a New Year's Eve party at TAO Las Vegas on December 31, 2010.[65] The tune was created by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart. At the point when inquired as to whether a collection was in progress, Kardashian answered, "There's no collection underway or anything—only one melody we did for Kourtney and Kim Take New York, and a video Hype Williams coordinated, half of the returns we're offering endlessly to a malignancy establishment, on the grounds that The-Dream's and one of my folks died from disease. It's simply all having a great time—with a decent cause".[66] Jim Farber, composing for the Daily News, considered the melody a "dead-brained piece of conventional dance music, without a solitary distinctive element," and recommended that the single made Kardashian the "most exceedingly terrible artist in the unscripted television universe."[67] 

That month, the International Business Times reported that Kardashian's 2010 income were the most elevated among Hollywood-based reality stars, assessing them at $6 million.[68][69] 

In April 2011, Kardashian delivered her third scent "Gold".[51] In March 2012, Kardashian appeared her fourth aroma, named "Genuine Reflection", which she worked with the organization Dress for Success to promote.[70] In April, E! renewed Keeping Up with the Kardashians for two extra seasons, in an arrangement answered to be valued at $50 million.[71][72] In November 2011, she delivered a novel Dollhouse along with sisters Kourtney and Khloe.[73] In October 2012, Kardashian delivered her fifth scent, "Glitz", which "draws on the charm of her Hollywood way of life", and was made accessible through Debenhams.[74] In summer of 2012, Kardashian and her family recorded a music video in the Dominican Republic to Notorious B.I.G's tune "Hypnotize".[75] 

In the sentimental drama Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013), created, composed, and coordinated by Tyler Perry, Kardashian got the job of the colleague of an aggressive advisor. While the film was a moderate film industry achievement, with an overall gross of US$53.1 million,[76] critical reaction was negative and Kardashian won the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress.

Zero in via online media (2014–present) 

Kardashian showed up on the cover, and in a pictorial in Paper's colder time of year issue in 2014 captured by Jean-Paul Goude.[77] On the cover, her bare rump are highlighted over the subtitle: "Break the Internet", which created extensive remark in both social and customary media.[78][79] The photographs show Kardashian with her hair tied up in a bun, wearing just a pearl accessory, a couple of studs and dark silk gloves, and, on the cover, with her sans protection confronting the camera, holding a sequined outfit underneath her uncovered, oiled-up bum, while grinning comprehensively at the camera.[80][81] A Time magazine author remarked that, not at all like past big names' nudes that addressed the ladies' defiance to quelled society and "attempting to destroy" boundaries, Kardashian's display was "just incitement and rave, rehashed pictures that appear to offer us some kind of truth or understanding however are truly self serving. We need there to be something else, some explanation or setting, some incredible clarification that mentions to us what it resembles to live in this very day and age, yet there isn't. Kim Kardashian's butt is only a void promise."[82] However, the trick "set another benchmark" in web-based media response,[83] and Paper's site got 15.9 million perspectives in a single day, contrasted and 25,000 perspectives on a normal day.[84][85] 

In June 2014, Kardashian delivered a mobile game for iPhone and Android called Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. The target of the game is to turn into a Hollywood star or starlet.[86] The game backings a free to play model, which means the game is allowed to download, however charges for in-game items.[87] The game was a hit, earning US$1.6 million in its initial five days of release.[87] In July, the game's developer Glu Mobile announced that the game was the fifth most noteworthy acquiring game in Apple's App Store.[87] Kardashian voiced the part of an outsider in a scene of the adult animated series American Dad!, in season 11 (2014–15) in the scene named "Blagsnarst, A Love Story" on September 21, 2014.[88][89] In May 2015, Kardashian delivered a portfolio book called Selfish, a 325-page assortment of self-taken photographs of herself.[90] In December 2015, Kardashian delivered an emoji pack for iOS gadgets called Kimoji.[91] The application was a success, getting one of the main 5 most purchased applications that week.[91] In August 2015, Kardashian was the cover model for Vogue Spain.[92] 

As of November 2016, as per CBC Marketplace and interviews with superstar support specialists, Kim Kardashian was paid somewhere in the range of $75,000 and $300,000 for each post that she made on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter endorsing excellence items like abdomen mentors, teeth whiteners just as Coca-Cola and notable foundations. Specialists imagine that famous people offer phony looks into their lives to make watchers succumb to their promoting pitches, curated to look like the watcher is getting them in an unconstrained second when they are generally staged.[93] In June 2017, she dispatched her own excellence line, KKW Beauty,[94] and in November 2017 she dispatched her own scent line, KKW Fragrance.[95] 

By 2018, concurring to Business Insider, Kardashian was charging $720,000 per Instagram post. Despite the fact that commitment information demonstrates that her posts are worth somewhat less,[96] she is routinely standing out as truly newsworthy and this permits her to request a premium over any determined Instagram sponsored post price. Kardashian showed up in the heist film Ocean's 8, which was delivered on June 8, 2018.[97][98] In 2019, Kardashian caused a ripple effect at the Met Gala with her figure embracing bodice induced Thierry Mugler dress.[99][100] 

Gathering to item run 

In June 2019, Kardashian dispatched another scope of shapewear called Kimono. Kardashian was vigorously censured over the name of the brand, which pundits contended disregarded Japanese culture and overlooked the importance behind the traditional outfit. Following the dispatch of the reach, the hashtag #KimOhNo started moving on Twitter and the city hall leader of Kyoto wrote to Kardashian to request that she reexamine the brand name on Kimono. In light of public pressing factor, in July 2019, Kardashian declared that she would change the name.[101] However, Japanese exchange minister Hiroshige Seko stated that he would in any case be dispatching patent authorities for a gathering at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and that Japan would watch out for the situation.[102] She later supplanted the shapewear organization to the name Skims.[103] 

Individual life 

In 2000, 19-year-old Kardashian eloped with music producer Damon Thomas.[104] Thomas sought legal separation in 2003. Kardashian later accused their partition for physical and psychological mistreatment on his part[105] and said she was high on ecstasy during the ceremony.[106] Prior to the finishing of her separation, Kardashian started dating vocalist Ray J.[104] 

In May 2011, Kardashian got drawn in to NBA player Kris Humphries, at that point of the New Jersey Nets, whom she had been dating since October 2010.[107] They were hitched in a wedding service on August 20 in Montecito, California.[108] Earlier that month, she had delivered her "wedding aroma" called "Kim Kardashian Love" which corresponded with her own wedding.[51][109] A two-section TV exceptional demonstrating the arrangements and the actual wedding circulated on E! in early October 2011, in the midst of what The Washington Post called a "media barrage" identified with the wedding.[110] After 72 days of marriage, she sought legal separation from Humphries on October 31, citing irreconcilable differences.[111] Several media sources gathered that Kardashian's union with Humphries was only an exposure trick to advance the Kardashian family's image and their ensuing TV ventures.[112] A man maintaining to be her previous marketing expert, Jonathan Jaxson, likewise asserted that her fleeting marriage was for sure organized and a ploy to produce cash. Kardashian documented suit against Jaxson, saying his cases were false, and therefore settled the case that incorporated a conciliatory sentiment from Jaxson.[113] A generally coursed appeal requesting to eliminate all Kardashian-related programming from the air followed the split.[114] The separate was dependent upon inescapable media consideration

Kardashian started dating rapper and long-lasting friend Kanye West in April 2012, while still lawfully wedded to Humphries.[116] Her separate was concluded on June 3, 2013,[117] Kardashian and West got connected with on October 21, Kardashian's 33rd birthday,[118] and wedded on May 24, 2014, at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.[119] Her wedding dress was planned by Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy[120] with a few visitors' dresses planned by designer Michael Costello.[121] The couple's high status and individual vocations have brought about their relationship getting subject to substantial media coverage; The New York Times referred to their marriage as "a memorable snowstorm of celebrity."[9] In January 2021, CNN reported that the couple were examining divorce.[122] 

Religion 

Kim Kardashian is a Christian and has portrayed herself as "truly religious".[123] She was taught in Christian schools of both the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic traditions.[123] In October 2019, she was absolved in an Armenian Apostolic ceremony at the baptistery in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral complex and given the Armenian name Heghine (Հեղինե).[124] 

In April 2015, Kardashian and West headed out to the Armenian Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem to have their little girl North sanctified through water in the Armenian Apostolic Church, perhaps the most established group of Oriental Orthodox Christianity. The function occurred at the Cathedral of St. James.[125] Khloe Kardashian was delegated the guardian of North.[126] In October 2019, Kim sanctified through water her three more youthful kids at the baptistery in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral complex, Armenia's mom church.[127][128] Psalm was given the Armenian name Vardan, Chicago got Ashkhen and Saint got Grigor.[129] 

Wellbeing and pregnancies 

Kardashian and West have four kids: little girl North (conceived June 15, 2013),[130] son Saint (conceived December 5, 2015),[131] daughter Chicago (conceived January 15, 2018),[132] and child Psalm (conceived May 9, 2019).[133][134] 

Kardashian has openly examined challenges during her two pregnancies. She experienced pre-eclampsia during her first, which constrained her to convey at 34 weeks. With the two pregnancies, she suffered placenta accreta after conveyance, at last going through a medical procedure to eliminate the placenta and scar tissue.[135][136] After her subsequent pregnancy, specialists exhorted her not to become pregnant again;[137] her third and fourth youngsters were conceived via surrogacy.[136][138] Kardashian has additionally spoken about her psoriasis 

Paris theft 

On October 2, 2016, while attending Paris Fashion Week, Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in the condo where she was remaining. Five people, dressed as cops, bound and choked her, at that point took $10 million worth of jewelry.[179] The criminals got in her home by compromising the attendant. When they got to Kardashian's room, they held a firearm to her head, tying her wrists and legs and wrapping pipe tape around her mouth as a gag.[180] Kardashian, who was set in the bath, was truly safe and purportedly asked for her life.[181][182][183] She figured out how to wriggle her hands liberated from the plastic ties around her wrists and shout for help. The hoodlums escaped.[184] On October 6, 2016, it was uncovered that shooting for the following season of Keeping up with the Kardashians had been set "waiting inconclusively" after the robbery.[185] After the theft was reported, a few pundits communicated incredulity about if it was organized, with some in any event, attracting correlation with Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte's new bogus burglary claim.[186][187] On October 10, 2016, video was delivered indicating Kardashian following the theft, as police started leading their examination. In the video, she is seen utilizing the cell that she had revealed taken, and didn't have any of the markings she asserted from being limited by her captors, inciting more inquiries concerning whether the occasions were staged.[188] In reaction, Kardashian recorded claims against a few news sources the next day, and made sure about a gag request to get the video taken out from any articles because of it being important for a functioning police investigation.[189][190][191] On October 25, 2016, Kardashian dropped the claim, provoking more analysis that the theft was a ploy to create media attention.[192][193] Production continued on Keeping Up with the Kardashians on October 26