Kim Kardashian is an American reality television personality, socialite, and model. She first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton, but received wider notice after a 2003 sextape with her former boyfriend Ray J was leaked in 2007. Later that year, she and her family began to appear in the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Its success has led to thecreation of spin-offs including Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, Khloe & Lamar,and Kourtney and Kim Take New York. Kim Kardashian’s relationship with rapper Kanye West has also received significant media coverage; the couple married in 2014 and they have two children together. In October 2019, she filed for divorce from West, citing irreconcilable differences.
Kim Kardashian was born on October 21, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, to Robert and Kris Kardashian. She has an older sister Kourtney, a younger sister Khloé, and a younger brother Rob. Their mother is of Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, while their father was a third-generation Armenian American. After their parents divorced in 1991, her mother married again that year, to Caitlyn Jenner, the 1976 Summer Olympics decathlon winner.
Through their marriage, Kardashian gained step-brothers Burt, Brandon, and Brody Jenner; she also gained step-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner. As a teenager, she worked at her father’s music marketing firm, Movie Tunes, and also dealt in celebrity antiques, which she and her father bought and sold at flea markets to make a profit.
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