98 Fun Facts About Kardashians

On which cable network did Keeping Up with the Kardashians air from 2007 to 2021?

E! aired Keeping Up with the Kardashians from October 2007 until June 2021, and the show became the cable network's flagship series and its most lucrative franchise.

How many seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians were made?

Twenty seasons aired between the October 14, 2007 premiere and the June 20, 2021 finale, making it one of the longest-running reality series in the US.

On which streaming service did the family's follow-up series The Kardashians premiere in April 2022?

The Kardashians premiered on Hulu on April 14, 2022, after the family signed a multi-year exclusive global content deal with Disney in December 2020.

What was the name of the fashion boutique that Kourtney, Kim and Khloé opened in Calabasas in 2006?

Dash opened a year before the family's TV show began; every store closed in 2018, when Kim said the sisters had grown busy with their own brands and with motherhood.

Which Keeping Up with the Kardashians spin-off was the first to air, premiering in 2009?

Kourtney and Kim Take Miami premiered on August 16, 2009 as Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, the first spin-off, and was retitled when Kim replaced Khloé for its third season in 2013.

The Kardashian sisters' father, Robert, was a third-generation American of which ethnic descent?

Armenian heritage is a cause Kim has taken up: she visited the genocide memorial in Yerevan in 2015 and thanked President Biden when he formally recognised the Armenian genocide in 2021.

Robert Kardashian, the family patriarch, was famous before the show as a defence attorney for whom?

O.J. Simpson had been his friend for some 25 years; Kardashian had let his licence to practise lapse and reactivated it in 1994 so that he could join the defence team, working without pay.

Which trade publication did Robert Kardashian co-found in 1973 and sell for a large profit in 1979?

Radio & Records, a music-industry trade publication, was co-founded by Robert Kardashian in 1973 and sold in 1979; he later founded Movie Tunes, which played music in cinemas.

Which sitcom star played Robert Kardashian in American Crime Story?

David Schwimmer, Ross in Friends, earned an Emmy nomination for the part; the real Kardashian told Barbara Walters in 1996 that the blood evidence had left him with doubts about his client.

What was Kris Jenner's maiden name?

Houghton stayed her surname when her stepfather, Harry Shannon, moved the family to Oxnard; they were back in San Diego within months, after his business partner reportedly made off with the firm's money.

Before her marriage to Robert Kardashian, Kris worked for a year in which job?

Flight attendant was her job for a year with American Airlines in 1976, two years before her wedding; she later made a career of managing her own children, taking the title 'momager'.

Kris Jenner plays a mom in which Ariana Grande video?

Thank U, Next restaged four 2000s teen films; as the 'cool mom' from Mean Girls, Kris films the girls' Christmas dance on a camcorder, as Amy Poehler's character did, and gets the video's last line.

What is the name of Khloé Kardashian's daughter, born in April 2018?

True is a family name: Kris Jenner revealed after the birth on April 12, 2018 that both her father and her grandfather had carried it.

Caitlyn Jenner won Olympic gold in the men's decathlon at which Games?

Montreal 1976 brought a world-record 8,618 points and a victory lap with a spectator's American flag; a year later the champion was the face of Wheaties cereal.

Which reality series, running 2015-16, followed Caitlyn Jenner's gender transition?

I Am Cait began three months after Jenner came out as a trans woman in a television interview in April 2015; it ended after two seasons as its ratings fell.

Caitlyn Jenner ran for which California office in a 2021 recall election?

Governor of California stayed Gavin Newsom's job: voters rejected the recall, and Jenner finished 13th among the replacement candidates with about one percent of the vote.

Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage to which NBA player lasted just 72 days?

Kris Humphries, then a New Jersey Nets forward, married Kim on August 20, 2011; she filed for divorce that October, but it was not final until June 2013, far longer than the marriage lasted.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West married on May 24, 2014 in which Italian city?

Florence hosted the ceremony at the Forte di Belvedere; the couple had entertained their guests at the Palace of Versailles the evening before, then flew them to Italy for the wedding.

What is the name of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's first child, born in June 2013?

North is a name Kim has said grew on her after Jay Leno suggested it as a joke on his talk show; she has also credited Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour with urging the couple to use it.

Kim Kardashian founded which shapewear company in 2019, valued at $4 billion four years later?

Skims was first announced as Kimono; after protests from Japan, including a letter from the mayor of Kyoto, Kim dropped the name before the brand went on sale in September 2019.

Kim Kardashian's beauty and fragrance lines, launched in 2017 and shut in 2022, used which initials?

KKW were the initials of her married name, Kim Kardashian West; both lines had closed by 2022, when she launched the skincare brand SKKN by Kim in their place.

What was the title of Kim Kardashian's 2015 coffee-table book of self-portraits?

Selfish grew out of a book of Polaroids Kim made as a Valentine's Day present for Kanye West; Rizzoli published the collection of her selfies in May 2015.

Which magazine's winter 2014 cover of Kim Kardashian carried the caption "Break the Internet"?

Paper had photographer Jean-Paul Goude restage his own 'Champagne Incident' picture with Kim; the magazine's website drew 15.9 million views in one day, against about 25,000 on a normal one.

Kim Kardashian lobbied Trump to free which woman serving life for a first-time drug offence?

Alice Marie Johnson walked free in June 2018, days after Kim's Oval Office meeting; Trump later pardoned her fully and in 2025 named her his 'pardon czar'.

In 2025 Kim Kardashian completed a four-year apprenticeship, instead of a degree, in which profession?

Law: California's Law Office Study Program let her qualify for the bar exam by apprenticing under supervising attorneys instead of attending law school; her father had been a practising attorney.

Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in October 2016 while attending Fashion Week in which city?

Paris police arrested a gang whose ageing members the press nicknamed the 'Grandpa Robbers'; eight were convicted in 2025, after Kim returned to give evidence in person.

Kim Kardashian appeared in the twelfth season of which anthology series in 2023-24?

American Horror Story: Delicate cast Kim as a publicist opposite Emma Roberts; its co-creator Ryan Murphy then made her the lead of his 2025 legal drama All's Fair.

Kim Kardashian paid a $1.26 million SEC fine in 2022 for promoting what without disclosure?

The SEC said she was paid $250,000 to plug the EthereumMax cryptocurrency token, EMAX, on Instagram; she settled in October 2022 and agreed not to promote crypto assets for three years.

Kourtney Kardashian's lifestyle website, launched in 2019, is called what?

Poosh is the nickname Kourtney uses for her daughter Penelope; she announced the site in March 2019, and her supplement brand Lemme followed in 2022.

Kourtney Kardashian married which rock drummer in 2022?

Travis Barker of Blink-182 married her three times over in 2022: an unofficial Las Vegas ceremony after the Grammys, a legal wedding in Santa Barbara and a celebration in Portofino, Italy.

Kourtney Kardashian graduated from which school with a degree in theatre arts?

The University of Arizona awarded her a theatre arts degree, with a minor in Spanish, after two years at SMU in Dallas; her brother Rob went to USC's Marshall School of Business.

Kourtney Kardashian first appeared on reality TV in 2005 on which show, earning money for charity?

Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive put children of the wealthy to work on a Colorado ranch in 2005, two years before her family's own show, with their earnings going to charity.

Scott, Kourtney's ex, styles himself with what aristocratic nickname?

Lord Disick is a title he bought over the internet before being 'knighted' in London on a 2012 episode; a web series, Lord Disick: Lifestyles of a Lord, followed.

Khloé Kardashian married basketball player Lamar Odom in 2009 how long after they first met?

One month after meeting at a party for his Lakers teammate Metta World Peace, they married on September 27, 2009; the divorce took far longer, from a 2013 filing to December 2016.

Khloé Kardashian co-founded which denim and fashion brand with Emma Grede in 2016?

Good American sold $1 million of jeans on its first day, offering every style from size 00 to 24; Emma Grede went on to help found Kim's shapewear label as well.

In 2012 Khloé Kardashian co-hosted the second season of which talent show with Mario Lopez?

The X Factor did not bring her back for a third season; she later fronted a talk show of her own, Kocktails with Khloé, which was cancelled after 14 episodes.

Rob Kardashian finished second on the thirteenth season of which competition show in 2011?

Dancing with the Stars paired Rob with Cheryl Burke; they finished second to Army veteran J.R. Martinez, going further than his sister Kim had as a contestant in season seven.

What product does Rob Kardashian's brand Arthur George sell?

Socks are the whole business of Arthur George, launched in 2012; the name pairs Rob's own middle name, Arthur, with George, the middle name of his late father.

Whose run as the world's highest-paid model, unbroken since 2002, did Kendall Jenner end in 2017?

Gisele Bündchen had topped the Forbes list every year since 2002; in 2017 Kendall's $22 million pushed the Brazilian into second place, eight years after Wilhelmina signed Kendall at 13.

Kendall Jenner launched which drinks brand in 2021?

818 Tequila is named after a Los Angeles telephone area code; Tequila 512, an Austin brand named after its own city's code, sued over the idea in 2022, and the case was settled.

The youngest Jenner sister's cosmetics company began in 2015 under what name?

Kylie Lip Kits went on sale on November 30, 2015, the first 15,000 paid for with $250,000 of her modelling earnings; renamed Kylie Cosmetics in February 2016, the firm then made 500,000.

Which beauty conglomerate bought a 51 percent stake in Kylie Cosmetics for $600 million in 2019?

Coty, the owner of CoverGirl and Rimmel, agreed the deal in November 2019; months later Forbes used the sale's paperwork to argue that Kylie had overstated the size of her company.

In 2019 Forbes said Kylie Jenner had beaten whose record as youngest self-made billionaire?

Mark Zuckerberg had been 23 when he got there in 2008; Forbes withdrew Kylie's title in May 2020, saying her team had inflated her firm's figures and had probably forged tax returns.

What was the title of Kendall and Kylie Jenner's dystopian sci-fi novel about twins Lex and Livia?

Rebels: City of Indra came out in 2014 under the sisters' names; ghostwriter Maya Sloan later said that she had done the writing herself, working from a two-page outline of their ideas.

Kylie Jenner's phrase "rise and shine" became a meme after a video of her singing it to whom?

Her daughter Stormi was asleep in a room at the Kylie Cosmetics office during a filmed tour; clips of the three sung words passed a billion TikTok views within a week, and Kylie filed to trademark them.

Kylie Jenner launched which clothing line in November 2023?

Khy debuted on November 1, 2023 with a faux-leather collection designed with the Berlin label Namilia; Sprinter, her canned vodka soda, followed in 2024.

Robert Kardashian's grandparents emigrated from the Kars region, which lies in which present-day country?

Turkey holds Kars today, but the region belonged to the Russian Empire when the family left, which is why their surname was first written in the Russian style, as Kardaschoff.

Who wrote Kardashian Dynasty: The Controversial Rise of America's Royal Family?

Ian Halperin, a Canadian investigative journalist, published Kardashian Dynasty in 2016, following his earlier unauthorised biographies of Michael Jackson and Brad Pitt.

Kylie Jenner's most-liked Instagram post was overtaken in January 2019 by a plain photograph of what?

An egg, posted by an account created only to beat her, passed 18.4 million likes in under ten days. Jenner answered with a video of herself cracking one open on the ground.

At the 2022 Met Gala, Kim Kardashian wore a 1962 dress first worn to serenade a US president by whom?

Marilyn Monroe wore it to sing to John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden. Kardashian kept the original on for about five minutes before changing into a replica.

Kendall Jenner fronted a 2017 protest-themed advert, pulled within a day, for which soft drink?

Pepsi cast her as a model who leaves a photoshoot to join a march and hands a police officer a can. The company pulled the film and apologised to Jenner for putting her in that position.

A 2018 Kylie Jenner tweet about which app's redesign preceded a $1.3 billion fall in its maker's value?

Snapchat had announced the new look in November 2017 to a hostile reception from many of its users. Its parent company reportedly lost more than $1.3 billion in market value after her tweet.

Kim Kardashian guest-hosted which US television show in October 2021, mocking her own family in the monologue?

Saturday Night Live gave her a monologue in which she made fun of her mother's ex, her sisters and her estranged husband. Within weeks she was dating comedian Pete Davidson.

Kim Kardashian's shapewear brand was unveiled in 2019 under which name, dropped after Kyoto's mayor objected?

Kimono Intimates was the original name, which critics said disrespected Japan's traditional dress. Kyoto's mayor wrote asking her to reconsider the trademark, and she renamed the company.

Kim Kardashian voices Delores the poodle, with two of her children also cast, in which animated film series?

PAW Patrol cast her in its 2021 film, and her eldest daughter and son joined the 2023 sequel as Mini and Meteor Max. She said the part made her children think of her as a cool mum.

After winning Olympic decathlon gold, Caitlyn Jenner became the face on boxes of which breakfast cereal?

Wheaties signed Jenner in 1977 as only the second athlete spokesperson in the brand's history. Gymnast Mary Lou Retton took over the role in 1984.

Kourtney Kardashian's son Reign shares his 14 December birthday with which elder brother, born five years earlier?

Mason arrived on 14 December 2009, and his birth was filmed for Keeping Up with the Kardashians. His brother followed on the same date in 2014.

Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian in 2013 by hiring the baseball stadium and its scoreboard in which city?

San Francisco's waterfront ballpark, home of the Giants, was rented for what was billed as a private event. The proposal fell on Kardashian's 33rd birthday.

Kendall Jenner paid $90,000 to settle claims over her Instagram promotion of which doomed music event?

Fyre Festival paid her $275,000 for one post that did not say it was an advert. Guests who had bought luxury villas in the Bahamas were given packaged sandwiches and poorly furnished tents.

Kourtney Kardashian's only daughter, born in July 2012 and a regular on the family's shows, has which first name?

Penelope was born on 8 July 2012, and the birth was filmed for the family's reality series. She has two full brothers and gained a baby half-brother in 2023.

Kourtney Kardashian and her Blink-182 drummer husband gave their son, born in November 2023, which first name?

Rocky Thirteen is the boy's full given name. He was conceived naturally after Kardashian had been through five failed cycles of IVF.

Kris Jenner played a mother filming on a camcorder in the 2018 music video Thank U, Next for which singer?

Ariana Grande cast her in the part Amy Poehler played in Mean Girls, the proud mum capturing a school dance routine on video. The video paid tribute to four teen films of the 2000s.

Caitlyn Jenner introduced her new name to the world in June 2015 on the cover of which magazine?

Vanity Fair ran the Annie Leibovitz portrait under a three-word caption giving her new name. It was the magazine's first cover to feature an openly transgender woman.

Brody Jenner, a stepbrother of the Kardashian sisters, was a main cast member of which MTV reality series?

The Hills made him a regular from 2007 to 2010, alongside Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag. He is Caitlyn Jenner's son with the songwriter Linda Thompson.

Kim Kardashian's eldest daughter sang at a 2024 Hollywood Bowl anniversary concert of which Disney film?

The Lion King concert had her perform the young Simba's big number in a furry yellow hooded outfit. Jason Weaver, the cub's singing voice in the 1994 film, praised her performance.

The producer who developed Keeping Up with the Kardashians had which earlier celebrity-family reality show in mind?

The Osbournes, MTV's hit about Ozzy's household, was the model. The producer sent a cameraman to film a Kardashian Sunday barbecue and used the tape to sell the idea to a cable network.

Which talk-show host fronted the two-part reunion special that closed Keeping Up with the Kardashians in 2021?

Andy Cohen, who fronts the Real Housewives reunions on Bravo, sat the family down to revisit the most talked-about moments and unanswered questions of the whole run.

Kourtney Kardashian followed a legal wedding in Santa Barbara with a May 2022 ceremony in which Italian coastal resort?

Portofino hosted the religious ceremony a week after the legal one in California. The couple had already staged an unofficial wedding in Las Vegas after the Grammy Awards that April.

A 2014 spin-off followed Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian as they opened a pop-up shop in which seaside resort area?

The Hamptons, on the eastern end of Long Island, gave the fourth spin-off of Keeping Up with the Kardashians its setting. It ran for a single season of ten episodes.

Kris and Caitlyn Jenner renewed their wedding vows on a 2011 Keeping Up with the Kardashians trip to which island?

Bora Bora, in French Polynesia, hosted the whole family for the couple's anniversary celebration. The holiday was spread across three episodes of the sixth season.

A two-part 2016 trip in Keeping Up with the Kardashians took the sisters to which Caribbean country?

Cuba had long been off limits to tourists from the United States, and both episodes were given punning titles on its capital. Kris, left at home, lost her temper when she could not reach her daughters by phone.

Before her own show, Kim Kardashian appeared in episodes of which reality series starring her hotel-heiress friend?

The Simple Life set the heiress and Nicole Richie to jobs such as farm work and serving fast food. Kardashian worked as her stylist and was often photographed at her side at events and parties.

Kris Jenner tried to trademark which nickname for herself, later the name of a lipstick set she sold with Kylie?

Momager blends mom and manager, the two roles she has held for her daughters since before the family's reality fame. The mini lipstick set came out in time for Mother's Day 2018.

Kendall Jenner first walked in which lingerie brand's fashion show in 2015?

Victoria's Secret booked her again in 2016 and 2018. She had to cancel a planned 2017 appearance because of her campaign for the rival label La Perla.

Caitlyn Jenner came out as a trans woman in an April 2015 ABC television interview with which veteran journalist?

Diane Sawyer's interview won a GLAAD Media Award for television journalism the following year. Jenner told her she had dealt with gender dysphoria since her youth.

Kim Kardashian dated which NFL running back, a boyfriend seen in the early seasons of the family's reality show?

Reggie Bush was introduced to her by fellow player Matt Leinart at the 2007 ESPY Awards. He later said he never felt comfortable being followed by the cameras but did it because it mattered to her.

Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner play themselves as Met Gala guests in which heist film?

Ocean's 8 stages a jewel theft at the Met Gala, so real regulars of the event were hired for cameos. Anna Wintour and Serena Williams also appear as themselves.

Caitlyn Jenner passed a million Twitter followers in four hours in 2015, beating a time set weeks earlier by whom?

Barack Obama had needed four hours and 52 minutes. Jenner's account got there in four hours and three minutes, which Guinness certified as the fastest ever at the time.

Kim Kardashian eloped at the age of 19, in 2000, with which music producer, her first husband?

Damon Thomas and Kardashian separated within a few years. Before the divorce was final she had begun dating the singer Ray J.

Kim Kardashian played an ambitious therapist's co-worker in a 2013 romantic drama written and directed by whom?

Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor took $53 million worldwide. Kardashian's performance won her the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress.

Before reality fame, Kim Kardashian became personal stylist in 2004 to which singer, the sister of Ray J?

Brandy Norwood hired her three years before the family's cameras arrived. Kardashian went on to work as a personal shopper and stylist for the actress Lindsay Lohan.

Kim Kardashian served as hostess in 2008 of which annual WWE event, held that year in Orlando?

WrestleMania XXIV was the first edition held in Florida and only the second staged outdoors. The Undertaker beat Edge in the final match of the evening.

Kourtney, Kim and Khloé Kardashian co-wrote which 2011 novel about sisters named Kamille, Kassidy and Kyle Romero?

Dollhouse got its title from a fan contest, and the winner was rewarded with a cameo in the book. In the plot, one sister's televised wedding is called off.

The Kardashian Kollection, the sisters' big-selling clothing line of the early 2010s, was made for which store chain?

Sears carried the range, which brought in $600 million in 2013 alone. The sisters had earlier designed a collection for the fashion chain Bebe.

Kendall Jenner joined Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne among the celebrity faces of which acne-treatment brand in 2019?

Proactiv was developed by two dermatologists and built its sales on infomercials fronted by famous endorsers who had struggled with acne themselves.

Kourtney Kardashian launched which brand of vitamins and gummy supplements in September 2022?

Lemme went on sale with just three products. It followed the lifestyle website she had started three years earlier.

Kris Jenner began a relationship around 2014 with which man, later a regular face on The Kardashians?

Corey Gamble appears in the streaming series alongside her daughters' partners. The relationship began after her separation from Caitlyn Jenner was announced in October 2013.

Caitlyn Jenner's first film role came in 1980's Can't Stop the Music, a musical built around which disco group?

Village People headlined a film that went on to win the very first Razzie for Worst Picture. Jenner's 2011 film Jack and Jill later won the same award.

Which British production company, joined by James Corden as a partner in 2017, was hired to make The Kardashians?

Fulwell 73 is named after a stand at Sunderland's old stadium, Roker Park, and the club's 1973 FA Cup win. Three of its four founders support the team.

Which agency signed Kendall Jenner as a model in July 2009, before her 2013 move to The Society Management?

Wilhelmina Models soon found her a first job, a campaign for a fast-fashion chain. Her later switch to The Society Management marked a change of direction to high fashion.

Kris Jenner and her daughter Kourtney opened which children's clothing boutique in 2004, before the family's TV fame?

Smooch stayed open for almost six years before closing in 2009. Jenner had grown up working in a children's clothing store that belonged to her own mother.

Which former publicist, a friend of Kim Kardashian seen on the family's shows, legally renamed himself Foodgod in 2019?

Jonathan Cheban joined Keeping Up with the Kardashians in its third season. His new legal name was the handle he already used on social media.

Half the proceeds of Kim Kardashian's 2011 debut single, Jam (Turn It Up), were donated to which hospital?

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital received half the takings. Kardashian made the track with The-Dream, ruled out an album, and years later admitted she regretted making it.

Kris Jenner sold exercise equipment in the 1990s and launched a 2011 clothing line on which home shopping channel?

QVC carried the Kris Jenner Kollection, spelled with the family's favourite letter. Her three eldest daughters had announced a clothing line for the same channel in 2010.

Which pregnancy complication forced Kim Kardashian to deliver her first child at 34 weeks in 2013?

Pre-eclampsia was followed by a second complication after both of her deliveries. Doctors advised against another pregnancy, and her third and fourth children were born through surrogacy.

Kylie Jenner appears as herself in The Moment, a 2026 mockumentary led by which British pop singer?

Charli XCX came up with the original idea and plays a version of herself at the height of her Brat fame. Jenner appears as herself in a scene where the singer confides in her.

Kim Kardashian made her feature film debut opposite Carmen Electra in which spoof comedy?

Disaster Movie cast her as a character named Lisa and brought her a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actress. She has since said she cannot watch her character's death scene.

Kourtney Kardashian has a cameo as a woman who sponsors influencers in which teen romantic comedy film?

He's All That is a gender-swapped remake of the 1999 film She's All That, with Addison Rae in the lead. Kardashian's acting debut had come ten years earlier, as an attorney in a daytime soap opera.