Kim Kardashian Gets Real: 11 Revelations From the New Cover Story
Yes, you can call her a feminist.
“I’ve never really been one on labels, and I don’t like to push my view,” Kardashian says. “If I feel something, it’s how I feel. I never say, ‘I feel this way, so you should feel that way.’ Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but I just am who I am. But, yeah.” She smiles. “I think you would call me a feminist.”
Kim rolled with Paris Hilton’s “celebutante” crew but never got caught exiting a car without her underwear. How?
“I rarely wear underwear, but that never happened to me,” she says. “I was never drinking. . . . I think that saved me a lot.” Kardashian explains she doesn’t drink or do drugs except for “five shots of vodka in Vegas every three years.”
Kim’s sex tape didn’t bring her closer to Hilton, who had a similar experience.
“I don’t think she was that happy,” Kardashian says. “We didn’t really talk about it. I probably would have thought, ‘Oh, my gosh, let me give her advice,’ but we had no communication. But our friendship had fizzled before that.”
Kardashian did find out who leaked the tape. And is over it now.
“We’re in major confidentiality, so I can’t talk about it,” Kardashian says of the culprit. Does she still think about the fact that a great deal of humanity has seen her in flagrante? “I don’t really think about it,” she says quietly. “I thought about it for a long time. But when I get over something, I get over it.”
Music is a huge part of Kim’s life — and she still makes mix CDs.
“As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.” As an adolescent, she liked Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, and played Mary J. Blige and Jodeci on her bedroom record player. “I still make mix CDs,” she says. “I have an older computer with a disk drive so I can do it.” In high school, she was obsessed with ‘NSync and the Backstreet Boys — “really obsessed, though I was more of a Backstreet girl.” She also listened to Snoop, Dre and Ice Cube.
Kim and Kanye are “definitely opposites” and she respects his desire not to appear on Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
“You can’t expect me to jump up onstage and start singing — it’s not what I do.” But West has spent the past few years dressing his wife. “The makeover Kanye has given me is amazing,” she says. And while she says West introduced her to wearing runway fashion, she believes she would have come to that decision herself eventually.
Kim says her brother Rob exited the spotlight because he got heavier.
“It’s not that mysterious, what’s happening with Rob,” Kardashian says. “He has gained weight. He feels uncomfortable being on the show, and that’s OK. Do I think he smokes weed, drinks beer, hangs out and plays video games with his friends all day long? Yes.”
Also in this issue: Matt Diehl on the fall of Suge Knight, Ben Wofford on a young man who keeps the airlines guessing, Mark Binelli on Bernie Sanders, plus Mumford & Sons, Diplo, Hannibal and more.
Look for the issue on stands or download it on Friday, July 3rd.