A saga of selfies, sex tapes and stripping
AT ITS height Keeping Up With The Kardashians, which will end next year, attracted 10.5 million viewers, and keeping up with its stars’ lives is rather a challenge. ALISON BOSHOFF delves into the romances, the scandals and the jaw-dropping business deals … KIM KARDASHIAN WEST, 39, £696 million
THEN: A gawky stylist pal of Paris hilton who became notorious thanks to a sex tape made with previous boyfriend, rapper Ray J. She went to court to stop a porn firm releasing it and settled in 2007.
NOW: An internet-breaking sex goddess phenomenon with four children and one enormous bottom — plus a husband who wants to run for president.
her ability to cash in on her fame is legendary. There have been seven perfumes, a diet system, clothes, fake tan, haircare products, a smartphone game, a book, a range of shape wear and a beauty range.
Coty announced in June that they were paying her £154 million for a 20 per cent stake in her beauty business. She has also plugged numerous products including, controversially, ‘appetite suppressant’ lollipops. She is said to get the largest slice of the pie from e! for filming Keeping Up With The Kardashians, although £50,000 an episode is chicken feed for her.
ROMANCE: Kim was married to Damon Thomas, a music producer. her subsequent weddings have been the most watched episodes of the show. She filed for divorce just 72 days after her second, to basketball player Kris humphries in 2011. ‘Sometimes things don’t work out as planned,’ said Kim.
She married American rap star Kanye West, in a £26million ceremony in a castle in Florence in 2014. Gold toilets were shipped in for guests and West gave a toast to himself. They have four children: North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm — the last two via surrogate. This union is also said to be rocky as Kanye battles a bipolar disorder. The two apparently live largely separate lives at present and he seldom appears on screen in the show.
LOOKS: Several plastic surgeons claim that she has had a nose job. her first husband says she also had breast augmentation. Others contend a ‘liquid facelift’ has completely reshaped her face with the use of injectable fillers.
Kim has admitted to ‘trying’ Botox and said: ‘People don’t understand the pressure on me to look perfect.’ She’s also said to have had a bottom implant, but she denied it at the time.
SCANDAL: In 2014 she did a magazine photoshoot featuring her oiled-up bare bottom and a picture of her balancing a champagne glass on it. The pictures were said to have ‘broken the internet’ after going viral.
She has had spats with pop star Taylor Swift, been accused of cultural appropriation after having cornrow hairstyles.
Shockingly, she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris in 2016. Now, she’s studying to be a lawyer, while Kanye announced he is running for president.