Star Facts
- Her last name in Armenian means ‘son of a stonemason’
- Kim earned $6 million in 2010, making her the highest earning reality star in the business
- She posed nude for Playboy in 2007
- The New York City branch of Madame Tussauds now has a Kim Kardashian waxwork in their collection
Biography:
If ever we saw a woman hungry for fame, it’s Kim. Born in the shadow of the Hollywood hills, her father was a top attorney who famously worked on the O.J. Simpson case. She has two sisters, Khloe and Kourtenay, one brother, Robert, three stepbrothers, one half-sister, and two stepsisters, many of whom have appeared on TV with her.
Growing up around the botoxed yoga addicts of LA, Kim attended Marymount High School and worked for her dad’s music marketing company Movie Tunes. In 2007, the Kardashian family starred in their own reality TV show, the fabulously OTT Keeping up with the Kardashians. The show was a smash, turning Kim, and her famous derriere, into a worldwide phenomenon and has so far has led to two spin-off series.
If it will buy her column inches and keep her in the press, you name it, Kim’s done it. She’s launched several perfumes, made guest appearance in a billion US TV shows, written a book with her sisters, starred in a couple of (bad) movies, released a single, posed nude for Playboy, launched a clothing boutique chain called D-A-S-H, set up a jewellery line, modelled for Balenciaga shoes, oh, and leaked a sex tape.