THE KARDASHIANS haven’t at all times lived a lifetime of actuality TV stardom, non-public jets, and multi-million greenback companies.
Let’s check out the roles that Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe had earlier than they grew to become well-known.
KIM
Though she is now a billionaire magnificence mogul, Kim, 41, acquired her first style of fame by clearing out the closets of Hollywood celebrities.
With shoppers together with Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton, Serena Williams, Cindi Crawford, and Kenny G, she organized their closets and would promote their undesirable gadgets on eBay.
Kim was nonetheless merely dreaming of her personal actuality present when she then landed her place as a private stylist for singer-songwriter and her finest pal Brandy.
The would-be star was thrown into the deep finish, revealing throughout her first ever E! interview in 2006: “I’d by no means assisted a stylist earlier than, I by no means went to high school for it, I by no means actually knew what the job entailed.
“I simply form of blew it off and we’d at all times store collectively and at some point she referred to as me and was like, ‘Will you be my stylist?’
Kim then appeared on the truth present The Easy Life resulting from her friendship and dealing relationship with this system’s stars Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton.
Because of her connection to Paris, many consider that Kim was a private assistant to the socialite, however in 2017, she clarified that this was not the case.
Talking on Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen, she defined: “I might work with Paris, and I might love to arrange and clear out their closets and eliminate all their stuff and promote it on eBay after which store for them, store for her. That was my job. I beloved it. However folks will say ‘assistant.’ They at all times have it improper.”
But it surely was with Paris that Kim discovered play the celebrity sport.
Speaking to Rolling Stone in 2015, she revealed: “We’d go wherever and in every single place simply to be seen… We knew precisely the place to go, the place to be seen, and have one thing written about you.
“All you needed to do is go to this restaurant, or this celebration, speak about no matter you wish to speak about, and it might be within the paper the following day.”
Kim’s intercourse tape along with her then-boyfriend Ray J would additionally contribute to the household’s rise in fame, and it grew to become a fundamental storyline in the course of the first season of Conserving Up With The Kardashians, which premiered in 2007.
KOURTNEY
The one one of many three sisters to go to school, Kourtney, now 43, studied at Southern Methodist College in Dallas for 2 years earlier than she transferred to the College of Arizona, the place she majored in theatre arts and minored in Spanish.
Nonetheless, she failed two courses, and would later admit to US Journal: “I used to be too nervous to provide speeches.”
Kourtney additionally utilized to legislation faculty however determined to not go, earlier than she took on her first actual job as a film manufacturing assistant.
“I needed to yell ‘minimize’ and ‘rolling’ all day,” she informed US Journal.
Kourtney then arrange a kids’s boutique along with her mother Kris Jenner named Smooch.
The mother-daughter pair adopted within the footsteps of Kris’ mother Mary Jo Campbell, who owned an identical retailer in La Jolla, California, for over 30 years.
On a Celebuzz weblog, Kourtney mirrored: “I used to work within the retailer all day, daily, keep hours after closing and was obsessive about it… Smooch was my child!”
Nonetheless, the E! Star determined to shut the boutique in 2009 when she was pregnant along with her first youngster, Mason.
KHLOE
Khloe, 38, graduated highschool one 12 months early, leaving her with 5 years to realize expertise earlier than the household’s Sprint boutique opened in 2006.
She spent her late teenagers and early 20s as an assistant to Nicole Richie, whom her sister Kim additionally labored with.
Reflecting on her outdated job, Khloe revealed to Emergency Contact podcast: ‘I went to high school along with her [Nicole].
“She was one in all my finest buddies rising up and we had been simply actually, actually shut after which when she began doing The Easy Life — I feel it was after The Easy Life — she simply wanted some assist and I simply wanted a job.”
Style has at all times been a fundamental curiosity of Khloe’s, and earlier than she based her denim firm Good American, she performed a serious function at each of the household’s shops – Sprint and Smooch.
KYLIE AND KENDALL JENNER
As Kris’ youngest daughters, Kylie, 24, and Kendall, 26, grew up within the highlight of KUWTK fame.
Kendall started modeling aged 13 when she was signed to a serious company, whereas Kylie launched her first magnificence product, a Lip Package, when she was simply 18.