Is anything real any more in Kim’s reality-star life?

LAST week, if you had a single, tiny moment of wondering if Kim Kardashian’s robbery was for real, well, I have bad news for you. You’re sexist.

Yes, that’s what it is when you question whether this woman’s assault and detention by force and loss of her €10m of jewellery (plus two smartphones) actually happened or was a bizarre set-up. Question it at all and you’re saying that assaults on women don’t get taken seriously and, further, that women do not get taken seriously. Which should not be the case, obviously.

The problem is, however, that it’s been a long time since anyone was asked to really take Kim Kardashian (left) seriously. Lately, as viewership drops of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim is going to greater and greater lengths in the attention-grabbing stakes.

These greater lengths basically amount to going around with her boobs on show, with one notable outing in thigh-high boots and a trench coat, worn in such a way as to suggest she was naked underneath.

Not that dressing this way makes you a legitimate target for attack. Nor does showing off your new, reportedly €4m ring on the internet mean that you need to be taught a lesson by having it robbed.

The unreality of Kim’s dayto-day life, though, makes it hard to take anything as real. She is a woman for whom selfies are a career; she is a woman incapable of doing anything without the observation of millions. Her life is nothing like a real one and her robbery reads like a bad movie heist, complete with a haul of jewels so famous that no one will be able to sell them. A fact that, funnily enough, makes the whole thing even more difficult to take seriously.