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Kim Kardashian is hosting a new MasterClass, The New Rules of Business: The Ten Kimmandments with Kim Kardashian
In preparation for the upcoming series, she opened up about her life before Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Kardashians
The All's Fair star also revealed that she decided to go by "Kim," for one unexpected reality TV reason
Kim Kardashianwasn't always known as Kim.
TheKardashiansstar recently spoke withTimeMagazineabout her newMasterClass:The New Rules of Business: The Ten Kimmandments with Kim Kardashian, and revealed a little-known fact about the early days ofKeeping Up with the Kardashians.
The 45-year-old businesswoman explained that when the family's original E! reality series first aired in 2007, she only went by her full name, Kimberly. Confirming that, at 27 years old, she was rarely referred to by the nickname the whole world has come to call her.
"I used to always go by Kimberly, until we signed on to do the reality show," she explained to the outlet.
"And when I looked at my chyron, Kimberly Kardashian, I said, 'I think that's so long for people to say.' And like, 'Let's just shorten it to Kim,' " she recalled.
"And it's so weird, because all my friends from high school and growing up, and my dad, everyone calls me Kimberly," she noted.
After its 2007 premiere,Keeping Up with the Kardashianswould air for another 14 years, and a total of 20 seasons. One year after the series ended, in 2022, the family returned to the screen for their Hulu series,The Kardashians— which is currently airing its seventh season.
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Throughout Kardashian's interview withTime, she remarked on how she was eager to star on reality show since she was a child, saying, "I really wanted to do a reality show since the day MTV'sThe Real Worldcame out."
"I watched it with my best friend. I looked at her and I told her, 'That's what I'm going to do.' " And she said, 'I'll be your manager.' I think we were 11."
"I said, 'When we're 18, we have to make a tape and send it intoThe Real World.' Her dad's in the music-business management world. So she said, 'Oh, we can get my dad to send it to someone at MTV.' We made a whole plan."
As fate would have it, the Kardashian family would create their first reality tv series with the same producers asThe Real World,Bunim/Murray withRyan Seacrest.
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