Kimberly Noel Kardashian West popular as Kim Kardashian is an American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, and actress. Kardashian first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton but received wider notice after releasing a 2003 sex tape with her former boyfriend Ray J in 2007.
In recent years, Kardashian has grown an online and social media presence, including hundreds of millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram. She has released a variety of products tied to her name, including the 2014 mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a variety of clothing and products, the 2015 photo book Selfish and her eponymous personal app. Her relationship with rapper Kanye West has also received significant media coverage; the couple married in 2014 and they have four children together.
Here are five things you don’t know about Kim Kardashian
1. With almost 60 Million followers on Instagram, she’s in the top 3 most followed people on social media, alongside Taylor Swift & Selena Gomez.
2. Kim launched a game-app in 2014 called Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, that’s been an incredible success, reportedly bringing in over 200 Million dollars per year.
3. Before Kanye, Kim was married to the basketball player Kris Humphries, a marriage she filed for divorce after only 72 days. Although she said getting married was a mistake, the wedding brought in millions in advertising and pushed her further up the fame ladder.
4. A few people know this, but Kim has been married even once before Kris, when she was only 19 to a music producer named Damon Thomas, who she spent 4 years with, finally separating in 2003.
5. Kim received $300,000 and a royalty to drop her lawsuit against the distributors of the sex tape Kim Kardashian Superstar, the sex-tape that fueled her journey to super-fame.
