Very few people haven’t heard of the Kardashian family.
Although the family may not always be known for the best reasons, there’s no denying the social impact that the entire family has had.
Their reality television show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, has given viewers an inside look at the lives of the extremely wealthy and famous for decades.
This socialite family has made massive social waves for generations, starting with Robert Kardashian.
Why Are The Kardashians Famous?
The event that gave the Kardashian family the level of fame that they have now was when Kim Kardashian and R&B singer Ray J’s sex tape was released to the public without their consent.
However, it was Robert Kardashian’s involvement in the O.J. Simpson case that introduced the United States to the Kardashian name.
These days, each member of the Kardashian family is known for their own actions.
From gold-medal Olympian Caitlyn Jenner to television host Khloé Kardashian, the Kardashian clan has kept themselves incredibly busy.
While the family members are still best known for their television show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and their new upcoming series, The Kardashians, each of the family members has their niche that they have mastered.
Kris Kardashian spends most of her time acting as the manager for her daughters Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie.
She has also helped her daughters run a variety of businesses, such as DASH and Smooch.
Like her mother, Kourtney has a strong desire to run companies that allow her to create the products that she believes the world needs.
She is also known for being incredibly environmentally conscious and dating basketball stars.
Khloé Kardashian has found that she loves working in television, which has led to appearances on a multitude of shows like X-Factor and Celebrity Apprentice.
She has a variety of spin-off shows such as Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami and Kocktails with Khloé.
Kendall Jenner is incredibly popular on social media and in the fashion industry.
After walking the catwalk for Fendi, Marc Jacobs, Victoria’s Secret, Chanel Haute Couture, and Balmain, she was named the highest-paid model of 2018.
Kylie Jenner is best known for her makeup company Kylie Cosmetics.
She has become the most popular of the sisters.
Robert Kardashian’s Infamous Court Case
Robert Kardashian was the one who made Kardashian a household name throughout the United States when he came the defense lawyer for his college friend O.J. Simpson during the investigation and trial for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
Nicole Brown was the ex-wife of Simpson and happened to be a friend of Kris Kardashian.
While the Simpsons and Kardashians were raising their families, the couples grew incredibly close.
Earlier in the evening, Brown had gone to her daughter’s dance recital and stopped by the restaurant where Goldman worked as a waiter.
Later that night, a neighbor spots the family’s white Akita running loose with blood covering the frantic dog’s paws.
At 12:10 am, the dog led the neighbors to the bodies of Brown and Goldman.
They were found stabbed to death on the ground outside of Brown’s home in Brentwood, California.
When the police went to inform Simpson of what had happened, they didn’t find him. Instead, they found his bloodstained Bronco and a bloody glove that matched one that was found near Goldman’s body.
Although the evidence seemed stacked against Simpson, Robert Kardashian was certain that his friend was innocent because nobody knew him better than he did.
Kardashian hadn’t been a practicing lawyer in well over a decade, but he got his license restored as soon as Simpson asked for his help.
The court would be filled with bizarre events like the jurors going on a field trip to both Brown and Simpson’s homes or having Simpson trying on the leather gloves found at the scene.
This court case would be fought brutally until October 3rd of 1995 when the jury found Simpson not guilty.
Although this case brought the Kardashians fame, it also played a major role in separating the Kardashians.
How A Sex Tape Changed An Entire Family’s Lives
In early 2007, Kim Kardashian’s sex tape was released by Vivid Entertainment.
At the time, Kim Kardashian was becoming famous for being the best friend of Hollywood socialite and heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune, Paris Hilton.
The adult media company had purchased the videotape from a third party and released the tape under the name Kim Kardashian, Superstar.
The video would go on to become the most-watched X-rated video of all time.
The media company wasn’t very concerned about Kardashian herself, but rather, the people she was connected to.
It also helped that her boyfriend Ray J was an incredibly popular musician during the early 2000s.
Kim Kardashian was shocked that the video had been spread around and immediately sued Vivid Entertainment for distributing the video.
When Vivid had purchased the footage, the third-party seller assured the company that they would legally be able to distribute it.
As soon as the company announced the fact that they had the footage, the young Kardashian’s lawyers sent legal letters to Vivid, and the company knew the concerns they had about the sellers were justified.
Through the years, there have been rumors that it was Kim Kardashian’s mother, Kris, who sold the sex tape to Vivid.
However, Vivid Entertainment’s CEO Steve Hirsch has publicly stated that he finds these rumors to be ridiculous and that he had nothing to do with Kim or Kris Kardashian when he first got his hands on the footage.
Some people still insist that Vivid Entertainment would have never announced they had the footage if they didn’t have Kim Kardashian’s consent.
This has led some people to believe that it was Ray J who had the footage released in an attempt to gain more fame.
Starting Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Keeping Up with the Kardashians was started by Ryan Seacrest in 2007 after seeing how successful MTV’s The Osbournes had been.
Seacrest and his production team were on the hunt for the next wild family to explore when someone recommended the Kardashians.
The sex tape between Kim Kardashian and Ray J had just been released and people were dying to know more about Paris Hilton’s wild best friend.
Seacrest sent a single cameraman to film a Sunday barbecue that the family was having after Kris Kardashian made the recommendation.
At the time, Seacrest didn’t own a single piece of filming equipment and hadn’t quite gotten the backing from his executives for the show.
Determined to get the footage he needed to create his hit show, Seacrest went out to Best Buy to purchase a video camera for the barbecue.
The cameraman ended up calling Seacrest during the day to let him know that they had struck gold.
He described the family as entertaining, funny, chaotic, and filled with love for each other.
As Seacrest watched the video, he was bent over laughing at the chaos that had been caught on film in only one trip, and he knew that he had a winning cast on his hands.
He went to show executives at E!, but they were unimpressed by what Seacrest had brought them and didn’t see the same potential that he saw in the family.
This was merely a roadblock for Seacrest, who decided to take the seven-minute barbecue footage to the head of E!, who greenlit the show and had it airing only weeks later.
Keeping Up with the Kardashians would remain on the air until 2021.
Fans were sad to see the long-running show come to end, but they have been excited to see the family again in The Kardashians.
Kourtney Kardashian, Business Tycoon
Kourtney Kardashian is the eldest daughter of Kris Kardashian.
Although the Kardashian sisters are known for being a tad air-headed at times, Kourtney has always been a studious person.
She graduated from the University of Arizona with her bachelor’s degree in 2002.
One of the first businesses that Kardashian ever owned was a children’s clothing brand named Smooch that Kourtney owned equally with her mother.
The Calabasas clothing store was started in 2003 but closed in 2009 at the height of popularity for Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Kourtney Kardashian was inspired to open the children’s boutique after her grandmother had successfully run her own children’s boutique for more than 30 years.
Smooch meant so much to Kardashian, who used her time at the boutique to help cope with the loss of her father in 2003.
She decided to close Smooch to have more time to spend with her son, Mason Disick, with whom she was pregnant at the time.
With the reality show taking up too much of the Kardashians’ time, neither Kourtney nor Kris could be at the store in person, and it just wasn’t the same without at least one of them there.
Using her bachelor’s degree, she ran a chain of clothing stores that she started with her sisters called Dash.
The chain started in 2007 and would remain operational until the sisters decided to close the chain down in 2018.
After seeing how the beauty industry operates, Kourtney Kardashian was determined to convince the industry to be concerned about the effect that they’re having on the environment.
In the spring of 2018, she accepted an invitation to join the nonprofit group, Environmental Working Group.
Her most recent business venture has been her own lifestyle and wellness brand, Poosh.
Kardashian hopes to help people live healthier lives through her brand.
Khloé Kardashian Is All Over Television
Khloé Kardashian has turned the fame she has earned on Keeping Up with the Kardashians into an opportunity to appear across television on a variety of shows.
She has even gained some of her own shows such as Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian, Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, and Khloé and Lamar.
In Revenge Body with Khloé Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian helps her fans lose weight after they’ve been discouraged by others for their weight gain.
With her fitness team, Kardashian would give those who were featured on the show the celebrity treatment.
After the fans completed their transformations, Khloé Kardashian and her guests would confront the naysayers together.
However, the show wouldn’t last long after it was deemed problematic for telling others that they need to lose weight for the appeasement of other people.
Viewers didn’t appreciate that the show made it seem like thinner bodies were inherently better and that people need to be desired above all else.
While nobody has a problem with people wanting to make healthier decisions for their own benefit, the idea of a “revenge body” seems to have become outdated.
In 2009, Khloé Kardashian married National Basketball Association star Lamar Odom after the couple had dated for only a month.
Although the relationship blossomed quickly, the Kardashians were excited to have it on tape for Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Kardashian fans and National Basketball Association fans were excited to know more about the power couple, which quickly spawned their own reality show called Khloé and Lamar.
However, the show would eventually end because Odom needed to devote more time to his basketball career.
Khloé Kardashian had another show called Kocktails With Khloé.
The single-season talk show was hosted by Kardashian and had a large variety of guests, like Chrissy Teigen and Travis Barker.
Supermodel Kendall Jenner
The world got to watch Kendall Jenner grow up during the long run of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Alongside her sister Kylie Jenner, the sisters would become fashion icons and relate more closely to the younger generation than their older Kardashian sisters.
Kendall Jenner was only 14 years old when she told her mother that she wanted to go into modeling.
Her mother used connections and the fame that the family had gained to get Jenner signed to Wilhelmina Models in 2009.
The first company that Jenner ever modeled for was Forever 21, and her first cover photoshoot was for American Cheerleader only three years after becoming a model.
By 2013, she was appearing in Miss Vogue Australia.
That same year, she was on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Arabia and signed with the modeling agency Society Management.
Jenner would make her introduction to the fashion world when Katie Grand cast her in Marc Jacobs’s Autumn–Winter 2014 show.
She quickly became a style ambassador for Seventeen with her sister Kylie Jenner.
Together, the duo launched their own brand, Kendall and Kylie, which is available at PacSun.
The year 2014 was an incredibly busy one in Jenner’s life and modeling career, with her walking for Chanel, Balmain, Tommy Hilfiger, and multiple others.
Kendall was also interviewed and featured by Interview and LOVE magazines.
The following year, Kendall Jenner would walk for Marc Jacobs again, and she walked for Vera Wang, Alexander Wang, and Fendi.
She also became the face of Calvin Klein Jeans and made her first appearance on Victoria’s Secret’s catwalk.
In 2018, Jenner shortly became the spokesperson for Pepsi.
However, a controversial commercial for the company and the model would cause the partnership to come to a quick end.
Despite the controversy, Jenner would become the highest-paid model that year.
Makeup Industry Titan, Kylie Jenner
Out of all of the Kardashian sisters, the youngest, Kylie Jenner would be the one to find the most success after her time on Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Like her sister Kendall, fans were able to watch Kylie Jenner grow up and become the makeup and business influencer she is today.
When Jenner was only 18 years old, she started Kylie Cosmetics to create lip kits that would help her fans recreate some of her famous makeup looks.
The beauty brand would later expand to include everything from eye shadow palettes to makeup removers.
Despite the controversy around the title, Forbes named Kylie Jenner the “Youngest Self-Made Billionaire” two years in a row.
Although most people would argue the “self-made” part of that title, nobody can deny the success that Kylie Cosmetics has brought the young reality star.
Of all the Kardashian sisters, Kylie Jenner has the most followers on Instagram with 200 million.
The only one close to her is Kim Kardashian with 191 million followers and Kourtney Kardashian having the fewest followers at “only” 103 million.
Kylie Jenner has collaborated with each of her famous sisters through her cosmetic brand, with the most popular collaborations being between Kim and Kourtney Kardashian.
Although Jenner keeps her personal life much more private than her sisters, she is always willing to post another picture of her daughter, Stormi, or show her fans a new way to use Kylie Cosmetics.
Jenner and rapper Travis Scott have recently made headlines when they announced the name of their newborn son, Wolf Webster Jacques Scott.
Jacques Webster is the birthname of Travis Scott.
Wolf Webster was born on February 2nd of 2022 after Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott had kept Jenner’s pregnancy out of the public eye.
Kim Kardashian Is Becoming A Lawyer
When the news broke out that Kim Kardashian was studying to become a lawyer, people were shocked.
For decades, she had been seen as this clueless rich kid, and Kardashian had gotten sick of that narrative.
To honor the memory of her late father and to help improve the criminal justice system, Kim Kardashian decided that she needed to become a lawyer and carry on the family tradition.
Although her father had passed his bar exam on the first try, she hasn’t had the same luck.
Kardashian failed her bar exam on the first three tries, but she didn’t let that deter her from achieving her dream.
She even took one of her exams while having tested positive for COVID and burning up with a 104-degree temperature.
Each time she failed, she began to study longer.
It got to the point where she was studying for 10 hours each day and attending online tutoring four times a day on Zoom.
Since she hasn’t attended a traditional law school, Kardashian had to pass her baby bar exam.
This exam is the equivalent of a single year of law school, and she will now begin studying for the California Bar Exam.
Although she has been told by some of the best lawyers in the United States that this road would be even harder than going to law school, Kardashian didn’t believe that she had an option.
While she could have easily afforded law school, her celebrity status would be vastly too distracting for her classmates.
Eventually, Kim Kardashian wants to start an extremely successful law firm like her father.
She wants to focus on prison reform and helping those who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes.
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