1. Kim Kardashian founded KKW Beauty and KKW Fragrance in 2017, both of which operated until 2022; the former was valued at over US$1 billion in 2021.
77 Facts About Kim Kardashian
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Kim Kardashian founded the shaping underwear and foundation garment company Skims in 2019, which is valued at over US$4 billion as of 2023.
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Kim Kardashian has released a variety of products tied to her name, including the 2014 mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the 2015 photo book Selfish, and the 2015 emoji app Kimoji.
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Kim Kardashian's acting credits include the films Disaster Movie, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, two PAW Patrol films, and the twelfth season of the anthology horror series American Horror Story.
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Kim Kardashian was named among Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in the world in 2023.
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Kim Kardashian became a billionaire in 2021, and is estimated by Forbes to be worth US$1.7 billion as of 2024.
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Kim Kardashian has become more politically active by lobbying for prison reform and clemency, and, as of 2019, is under a four-year law apprenticeship supervised by the legal nonprofit Cut50.
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Kimberly Noel Kardashian was born on October 21,1980, in Los Angeles, California, to Robert and Kris Kardashian.
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Kim Kardashian has an older sister, Kourtney, a younger sister, Khloe, and a younger brother, Rob.
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Kim Kardashian attended Marymount High School, a Roman Catholic all-girls school in Los Angeles.
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Kim Kardashian subsequently began working at Body, a local clothing store in Encino, California, where she worked for four years, assisting in the opening of the Calabasas location.
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In 2006, Kim Kardashian began working as a stylist for Paris Hilton, a childhood friend of hers.
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Kim Kardashian appeared in several episodes of the reality series The Simple Life and was frequently photographed accompanying Hilton to events and parties.
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Rick Mendozza, a freelance photographer on assignment for the tabloid TMZ, remarked in the same interview that, when Kim Kardashian accompanied Hilton to nightclub Hyde, which was a Hollywood hotspot at the time, he continued to get assignments from tabloids to get photographs of Kim Kardashian for the next three years.
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Kim Kardashian posed in a nude pictorial for the December 2007 issue of Playboy, and appeared on the cover of the November 2010 issue of Romanian Playboy, promoting a pictorial titled "Poezia Unui Fund Bombat".
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Kim Kardashian made her feature film debut, opposite Carmen Electra, in the disaster film spoof Disaster Movie, in which she appeared as a character named Lisa.
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Kim Kardashian premiered the song during a New Year's Eve party at TAO Las Vegas on December 31,2010.
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In 2010, Kim Kardashian served as producer for The Spin Crowd, a reality television show about a New York City public relations firm run by Jonathan Cheban and Simon Huck, appeared on season ten of The Apprentice, and guest starred with Khloe and Kourtney as themselves on the season three premiere episode of the series 90210.
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In 2011, Kim Kardashian released her third fragrance, "Gold", as well as a novel, Dollhouse, along with sisters Kourtney and Khloe.
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That year, Kim Kardashian released her fourth fragrance, "True Reflection", which she worked with the company Dress for Success to promote, and her fifth fragrance, "Glam", which was made available through Debenhams.
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In Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, a romantic drama produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry, Kim Kardashian obtained the role of the co-worker of an ambitious therapist.
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Kim Kardashian appeared on the cover and in a pictorial in Papers winter 2014 issue, photographed by Jean-Paul Goude.
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Kim Kardashian released a portfolio book called Selfish, a 325-page collection of self-taken photos of herself, in May 2015.
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In 2017, Kim Kardashian launched both her beauty and fragrance lines, KKW Beauty and KKW Fragrance.
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Kim Kardashian made a cameo appearance in the heist film Ocean's 8, which was released on June 8,2018.
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Kim Kardashian appeared alongside her sisters and mother Kris Jenner in the premiere episode of the series.
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Kim Kardashian made it to Time's list of 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022.
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Kim Kardashian voiced Delores, a poodle, in the Canadian animated film PAW Patrol: The Movie, released on August 20,2021.
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Kim Kardashian reprised her voice role in the film's sequel, PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, released on September 29,2023.
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In October 2021, Kardashian hosted Saturday Night Live and in her monologue, she made fun of her estranged-husband Kanye West, her mother's ex-husband Caitlyn Jenner, her sisters, O J Simpson, and many others.
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In January 2022, in a class-action lawsuit filed against the cryptocurrency company EthereumMax that alleged the company is a pump and dump scheme, Kim Kardashian was named as a defendant, along with former professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.
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In October 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Kim Kardashian had agreed to pay a $1.26 million fine, to not promote cryptocurrency assets for three years, and to cooperate with an ongoing investigation without admitting or denying wrongdoing for failing to report receiving a $250,000 payment to promote the EthereumMax token.
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Kim Kardashian's mother, Kris Jenner, is a partner at the firm.
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Kim Kardashian co-led the twelfth season of American Horror Story, subtitled Delicate, alongside Emma Roberts.
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Kim Kardashian's first scripted television role, she starred as Siobhan Corbyn, the protagonist's best friend and publicist.
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Anthony D'Alessandro of Deadline Hollywood called her "perfect" for the role of Siobhan Corbyn; whilst Coleman Spilde of The Daily Beast found Kim Kardashian to be "the best part" of the season.
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In November 2023, it was announced that Kim Kardashian is set to star in the comedy film The Fifth Wheel, which has been sold to Netflix.
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Kim Kardashian is set to act and produce with Paula Pell.
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Kim Kardashian again collaborated with Beats Electronics to release the "Beats x Kim" collection, a trio of Beats Studio Pro headphones in nude tones.
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On December 23,2024, Kim Kardashian released a cover version and accompanying music video of "Santa Baby".
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In 2000, at 19 years old, Kim Kardashian eloped with music producer Damon Thomas.
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Kim Kardashian later blamed their separation on physical and emotional abuse on his part and said she was high on ecstasy during their wedding ceremony.
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In May 2011, Kim Kardashian became engaged to NBA player Kris Humphries, then of the New Jersey Nets, whom she had been dating since October 2010.
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Kim Kardashian filed a suit against Jaxson, saying his claims were untrue, and later settled the case that included an apology from Jaxson.
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Kim Kardashian began dating rapper and longtime friend Kanye West in April 2012, while still legally married to Humphries.
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Kim Kardashian's divorce was finalized on June 3,2013, Kardashian and West became engaged on October 21, Kardashian's 33rd birthday, and married on May 24,2014, at Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.
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In January 2021, CNN reported that the couple were discussing divorce and on February 19,2021, Kim Kardashian officially filed for divorce.
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Kim Kardashian subsequently dropped "West" as her legal last name and ended their marriage.
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Kim Kardashian was in a relationship with actor and comedian Pete Davidson from November 2021 to August 2022.
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From September 2023 to March 2024, Kim Kardashian was reportedly in a relationship with NFL wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
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Kim Kardashian is a Christian and has described herself as "really religious".
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Kim Kardashian was educated in Christian schools of both the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic traditions.
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In October 2019, Kim Kardashian baptized her three younger children at the baptistery in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral complex, Armenia's mother church.
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Kim Kardashian has publicly discussed difficulties during her first two pregnancies.
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Kim Kardashian experienced pre-eclampsia during her first, which forced her to deliver at 34 weeks.
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In May 2021, it was reported that Kim Kardashian had tested positive for COVID-19 in November 2020.
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Kim Kardashian confirmed this report but denied reports that she caught the disease after hosting a party at a private island.
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Kim Kardashian has been included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 multiple times, which ranks the highest-earning celebrities annually.
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Kim Kardashian was the twelfth-highest-paid celebrity on Instagram in 2024, with earnings of over $4.37 million across sponsored posts.
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On October 2,2016, while attending Paris Fashion Week, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in the apartment where she was staying.
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Kim Kardashian, who was placed in the bathtub, was physically unharmed and reportedly begged for her life.
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Kim Kardashian managed to wriggle her hands free from the zip ties on her wrists and scream for help.
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On October 25,2016, Kim Kardashian dropped the lawsuit, prompting more criticism that the robbery was a ploy to generate media attention.
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In 2021, Kim Kardashian said she had failed her first-year law exam for a second time, performing "slightly worse" than her first attempt earlier in the year.
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In 2020, Kim Kardashian condemned the actions of Azerbaijan in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and expressed her support for Armenia and the Republic of Artsakh.
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Kim Kardashian has expressed pride in her Armenian and Scottish ancestry.
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Kim Kardashian is not a citizen of either Armenia or the United Kingdom, and does not speak Armenian.
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Kim Kardashian has advocated for the recognition of the Armenian genocide on numerous occasions and encouraged President Barack Obama and the United States government to consider its acknowledgement.
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On October 10,2020, Kim Kardashian announced she donated $1 million to Armenia Fund, a humanitarian organization that supports Armenia's development.
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Kim Kardashian has worked in the area of prison reform, advocating for the commutation of the sentence of Chris Young and of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who received a life sentence for a first-time drug offense as the leader of a major cocaine ring in Tennessee which was granted by President Donald Trump in June 2018.
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Van Jones later stated that without Kim Kardashian, the act would have never passed because it would not have received the president's support.
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In 2019, Kardashian largely funded the 90 Days to Freedom campaign, an initiative to release nonviolent drug offenders from life sentences by attorneys Brittany K Barnett and MiAngel Cody.
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Kim Kardashian was widely credited for the success of the campaign in media headlines.
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Kim Kardashian has been on death row for over 14 years for her daughter's death that was a tragic accident.
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In July 2022, Kim Kardashian expressed support and petitioned for the release of rapper Gunna, who was imprisoned without bond, charged with one count of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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Kim Kardashian was released from jail, and instead was ordered to serve 500 hours of community service.
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In December 2023, Kim Kardashian publicly expressed her belief in the innocence of Alabama prisoner Toforest Johnson, who has been on death row for more than 25 years despite calls for his conviction to be overturned from the original trial prosecutor in his case and the current District Attorney, Danny Carr.