About
Kim Kardashian (born October 21, 1980) is an American media personality turned business titan who parlayed reality-TV fame into a billion-dollar brand portfolio. After spending 14 years on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, she and her family jumped to Hulu in 2022 with The Kardashians, now in its sixth season. Today her shapewear line SKIMS—valued around $4 billion—dresses everyone from college students to pro athletes and, since 2023, has served as the official underwear partner of the NBA, WNBA and USA Basketball. Kardashian also runs the skin-care label SKKN BY KIM and remains a senior operating adviser to SKKY Partners, the consumer-focused private-equity firm she co-founded in 2022. Beyond commerce, she is a prominent voice for criminal-justice reform: she has lobbied at the White House, produced a documentary, and helped win clemency or sentence commutations for several incarcerated people.
Before Fame
Kimberly Noel Kardashian grew up in Los Angeles as the second of four children of attorney Robert Kardashian—best known for the O. J. Simpson defense team—and “momager” Kris Jenner. She attended Marymount High School, a Catholic all-girls academy, where she balanced studies with a part-time job at a clothing boutique. In the early 2000s she organized closets for Hollywood clients and styled her friend Paris Hilton, gaining early paparazzi attention. A 2007 home video leak threw her into the tabloids just weeks before E! green-lit Keeping Up With the Kardashians—the unscripted hit that would transform her family’s life and reality television at large.
Trivia
- Aspiring lawyer: Kardashian passed California’s “baby bar” exam on her fourth attempt in 2021 and took the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam in March 2025; she now aims to sit for the full bar in 2026.
- Paris robbery trial: Nearly nine years after thieves stole $10 million in jewelry from her Paris hotel room, ten suspects nicknamed the “Grandpa Gang” went on trial in April 2025, and Kim is slated to testify.
- Acting turn: Critics praised her for a scene-stealing role in American Horror Story: Delicate (2023), and she has an Amazon MGM thriller in the pipeline.
- Social reach: With more than 360 million Instagram followers, she ranks among the platform’s top ten most-followed people—an audience she converts into brisk SKIMS sales drops that routinely sell out in minutes.
- Investor hat: SKKY Partners’ first high-profile deal was a minority stake in luxury skin-care brand 111Skin announced in January 2025.
Family Life
Kardashian shares four children with ex-husband Kanye West—North (b. 2013), Saint (2015), Chicago (2018) and Psalm (2019)—and has primary day-to-day custody while co-parenting with West. The kids often appear on Hulu and occasionally accompany their mom to fashion shoots or soccer matches. Kim’s prior marriages include music producer Damon Thomas (2000-2004) and NBA player Kris Humphries, whose 2011 wedding and 72-day marriage were televised phenomena. Her tight-knit immediate family also features sisters Kourtney and Khloé, brother Rob, and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner; former Olympic champion Caitlyn Jenner is her step-parent.
Associated With
- Business collaborations: NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on the SKIMS partnership; beauty entrepreneur Coty Inc., which took a 20 % stake in KKW Beauty in 2020; and luxury skin-care founders Dr. Yannis and Eva Alexandrides through SKKY’s 111Skin investment.
- Advocacy circle: Lawyers Jessica Jackson and Erin Haney, with whom she co-hosts the The System podcast spotlighting wrongful convictions; activist Van Jones, who mentored her early legal studies.
- Entertainment network: Long-time producer Ryan Seacrest (executive producer of KUWTK), Hulu executives behind The Kardashians, and frequent stylist collaborations with designers like Balenciaga’s Demna.
- Pop-culture ties: Close friendships with La La Anthony and hairstylist Chris Appleton, and a well-documented on-and-off friendship with fellow reality mogul Paris Hilton.
