Life Lessons from Kim Kardashian

Welcome to Life Lessons. This week, we’re flipping through the pages of our September 2017 issue featuring the  entertainment mogul and soon-to-be lawyer Kim Kardashian. As we await further details on Kim’s impending return to the screen, we’re poring over her cover story conversation. In it, she talks to the writer Janet Mock about protecting her children from the spotlight, the Kardashian family group chat, and the strange honesty of reality television. So sit back and pump up your “Jam,”—you just might learn a thing or two.

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“We have strict rules about the kids. Some seasons they’re not on at all. When I’m out and people call North’s name, that’s when it’s weird for me. She lives such a normal life, believe it or not, at home.”

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“Our approach to the show is to film everything and then scale back later. That said, we all have boundaries: I don’t really talk about things that are going on with my husband. If I do, it’s from my point of view. It’s my story.”

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“If I wasn’t doing what I’m doing now, or if this doesn’t work out one day, I could so be a publicist. I feel like that’s my job for the family sometimes, at least the crisis part of it.”

 

“It’s very rare that we take out real content. By the time the episodes air, it’s already been thrown in and out of the press so much that it’s really good to share things, even when you think at the time, ‘Oh, I’ll never share that.’”

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“We want to raise our kids to be really aware. I think that’s all you can do. The more you talk about things and keep them out in the open, the more they won’t be taboo. Kids are already so open. They say anything. So if you educate them, they feel like they have this knowledge and then they feel empowered.”

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“I’m really aware of what’s going on. If there’s something being said about one of my sisters, I’ll be the first to jump in a group. We have family chats that happen all day, every day. We don’t do everything perfectly, but there really are so many lies, so many rumors.”

 

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“I still don’t take anything for granted. I am genuinely still so excited about my career. I feel like now is when someone would turn off and think, ‘Okay, I’ve done this for ten years. I’ve done pretty well for myself. I can chill for a bit.’ But instead, I’m like, ‘No, let me turn it up.'”

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” There was no real path. There was no definitive career. It was just my mom and me trying to figure it out, especially when reality TV wasn’t the most respected.”

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 “My initial reasoning for wanting to do the show was to blow up our clothing store. I had to talk my sisters into it. They really didn’t want to do a TV show.”

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“When I was on the cover of Forbes I posted the hashtag #NotBadForAGirlWithNoTalent. I don’t mind being underestimated because it does fuel me. But after a while, I do feel like, ‘C’mon, you can recognize a little bit.’”)

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“You can say a lot of things about me, but you cannot say I don’t work hard. I don’t sing. I don’t dance. I don’t act. But I am not lazy.”

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