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Salad days . . . Newly married in 1991, Kris and Bruce were keen to promote keeping fit and eating healthily.
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An Easter-egg hunt in Mexico, 1994. It was the last vacation with ‘Uncle O. J.’ Simpson and his wife Nicole (pictured together in the back row). She was murdered two months later. Kim is front right.
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Kim’s father, Robert Kardashian, became famous defending O. J. at his murder trial. At O. J.’s house after the ‘not guilty’ verdict, they still had plenty to talk about.
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Now a celebrity, Robert arrives for the Grammy Awards with his then fiancée, Denice Halicki.
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Kim’s first husband, Damon Thomas (pictured in shades with business partner Harvey Mason, Jr), was a cool record producer, but their Vegas marriage didn’t prove to be happy ever after.
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Kim made that sex tape with hip-hop artist Ray J in 2003, and they were still together when they went to a fashion launch in March 2006.
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Multi-talented TV host Nick Cannon was good fun for a couple of months. They strike a pose at a party for Kanye West at a New York restaurant in September 2006
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American football star Reggie Bush looked like he might be husband number two when they watched a basketball game in New Orleans in January 2010 . . . But the couple split after dating for two and a half years.
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Paris Hilton was an old school friend whom Kim went to work for when she was a celebrity stylist. They both loved shopping and made sure their handbags were large enough.
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Three of these celebrities took part in notorious sex tapes – Kim, her boyfriend at the time, Ray J, and Paris Hilton. Tennis great Serena Williams, a close friend of Kim’s, is the odd one out.
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The sex tape that launched a multi-million-dollar fortune. ‘Kim Kardashian Superstar’ was a premature description back in 2007, but not today.
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Kim poses with her little sisters, Kylie (left) and Kendall Jenner, at a launch in October 2007 for Keeping Up with the Kardashians at the Chapter 8 restaurant in Agoura Hills, California.
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My, how you’ve grown! Kendall and Kylie tower over Kim when they watch the MTV Awards together at The Forum in Inglewood, August 2014.
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Kim is happy to be asked to the annual Teen Vogue Young Hollywood party at the Sunset Tower Hotel, Los Angeles in September 2006. She loved the grown-up magazine and this was the next best thing to being at one of its big fashion events.
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Kim looks gorgeous and almost demure in front of her first Playboy cover at a celebration party at the Retreat Club, New York, in November 2007. Not quite Vogue though . . .
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Kim is serious and seriously chic at the inaugural Vogue Paris Foundation Gala at the Palais Galliera in July 2015 . . .well it is Vogue!
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The essential Kim Kardashian . . .
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Kim’s lifelong best friend Allison Azoff, pictured on her left, is not often photographed and ignores the celebrity world. She made a rare outing to support Kim at her bachelorette dinner at TAO in Las Vegas.
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Kim turned out to be badly matched with second husband Kris Humphries, who had a height advantage of 18 inches. Even with six-inch heels she still had another foot to go.
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The sweet smell of success: Kim always wanted her own scent, and now she has seven and counting. She is an old hand at promoting them.
In your face at TAO launching her first fragrance ‘Kim Kardashian’ in February 2010.
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During its UK campaign at Debenhams in Oxford Street in June 2011.
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At Debenhams again for new scent ‘True Reflection’ in May 2012.
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Most of the cast of Keeping Up with the Kardashians were on hand to launch the suitably named Kardashian Khaos at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in 2011. The boutique was not a success and closed after three years.
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Keeping up with the Jenners: A pregnant Kim joins her other family – Brandon, Brody, Bruce and Brandon’s wife Leah – at the 2013 release party for Cronies, the first EP from indie group Brandon & Leah.
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Kanye West is a huge influence on Kim’s fashion choices. Her dress for the Met Ball in 2013 was described as a ‘pair of curtains’.
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Kim and Kanye reworked her designer outfit at home for the GQ Men of the Year Awards. Kanye suggested the latex top.
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The monochrome look they both love was a dazzling success when Kim wore gold, including a new hair colour, to the Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment breakfast.
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Sometimes being a celebrity can be great: Laughing in the front row at the BET Awards in Los Angeles with Kanye, Jay Z and his wife Beyoncé (although she doesn’t seem to be in on the joke).
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But sometimes it can be horrid: Surrounded and almost crushed by the paparazzi, selfie-seekers with their smartphones, security personnel or just people who want to gawp at the star in Paris.
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Kanye called Kim a natural mother. Here she shares a tender moment with baby daughter North at the Givenchy Show, Paris, in September 2014
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In a relaxed mood after leaving the Valentino Haute Couture Show at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in July 2012.
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Kim and Kanye love Paris and, in particular, the Fashion Weeks, which they always attend if they can. Here, unselfconsciously, they share a private moment at the Balmain Show in March 2015.
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Caitlyn Jenner said Kim had been ‘by far the most accepting’ about his gender transition. They take a walk in October 2014 before her stepfather told the world.
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Kim was in the audience when Caitlyn made an inspirational speech as she accepted the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles in July 2015.
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Kim showed her serious side when she paid her first visit to Armenia in April 2015 and laid red tulips at the Genocide Memorial in the capital, Yerevan.
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The following month, more frivolously, she turned heads at the 2015 Met Ball in New York in a Roberto Cavalli gown – truly, a bird of paradise.
ALSO BY SEAN SMITH
Tom Jones: The Life
Kylie
Gary
Alesha
Tulisa
Kate
Robbie
Cheryl
Victoria
Justin: The Biography
Britney: The Biography
J. K. Rowling: A Biography
Jennifer: The Unauthorized Biography
Royal Racing
The Union Game
Sophie’s Kiss (with Garth Gibbs)
Stone Me! (with Dale Lawrence)
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