Kim Kardashian West blames self for being robbed
Kim Kardashian West thinks she was to blame for being robbed at gunpoint.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star was the victim of a terrifying theft in Paris, France, three years ago, which saw armed intruders tie her up as they made away with millions of dollars worth of jewellery.
The 39-year-old beauty believes it was something she “brought on” herself because she was “flashy” and overshared about her lavish lifestyle.
She said: “I definitely see the things that I brought on myself, the biggest being the robbery. Just being flashy and oversharing my every move on social media. But I enjoy my life. Someone said to me the other day, ‘What is it like being you?’ It’s awesome,” she said.
Kardashian West – who has children, North, six, Saint, three, Chicago, 22 months, and Psalm, six months, with husband Kanye West – grew less materialistic after the robbery and the incident made her realise she wanted to study to become a lawyer and help other people.
She told New York magazine: “I truly think once I got robbed, it took something out of me in the best way. All the things that really mattered to me then deeply – how many bags I had, what car I drove … I still like all that stuff, but it doesn’t matter. It could go away.”
She continued: “For so long, people have tried to partner me with things. But this was the first thing where I thought, you know what? I want to go to law school. I want to help people. Let me work for the next 10 years and build up my brands, and then one day, in 10 years, just give up being Kim K. and become a lawyer. And now I’ve come to a realisation about what I care about. No publicist would have ever told me to get into prison reform.”
But she said that she had no regrets about being in the public eye.