She prepared herself to be raped – her robe was hanging open and she was naked underneath – and was convinced she was going to die. She begged them to let her go, crying “I have babies”, and imagined her sister Kourtney returning from a nightclub to find her dead body on the bed. “I was certain that he was going to shoot me and it was over,” she told a Paris court on Monday. “So I said a prayer for my family and my sister and best friend that they would have an OK life after seeing what they were going to see.”
But a diamond heist, a gang of “grandpa robbers” with nicknames like “Old Omar” and “Blue Eyes” – including one who wrote a memoir bragging about the crime – and the immense privilege of the victim are all too irresistible. Kardashian’s nightmare gets dismissed as a celebrity folly, like the circus around Wagatha Christie or Gwyneth Paltrow’s “I lost half a day of skiing” Utah collision case (both of which were so high camp they have been adapted for the stage). In reality, it was a gruesome trauma that continues to cloud Kardashian’s life a decade later.
Kim Kardashian and her mother Kris Jenner after Kardashian’s testimony (Photo: LEO VIGNAL/AFP)But here’s the thing that people don’t understand about the Kardashians: their ability to articulate their trauma and invite the world to watch and judge without the fear of shame is the very foundation of their empire.
When Keeping Up with the Kardashians began in 2007, there wasn’t much to set it apart from other unfiltered reality TV shows of its era except for the silliness and intimacy between matriarch and “momager” Kris Jenner and her six children. Here was a blended family, many of whom were freshly mourning the loss of Robert Kardashian four years earlier and with Kim reclaiming (or capitalising on) her reputation in the wake of her leaked sex tape, recording their family fights (many physical) and socialite lives in Los Angeles.
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But as their popularity grew, the stakes of their drama did, too. Divorces, infidelity, fertility struggles, drug scandals, paternity tests, breakdowns, and the messy fallout since patriarch Caitlyn Jenner’s gender transition – this sort of disruption for ever changes and even destroys other families. Other families bury things. The Kardashians, meanwhile, kept showing it all, kept inviting the world to look on and comment, and laughed their way to the bank.
Those who mocked her or smirked or refused to see her as a victim as she told the court, “This is my closure. This is me putting this, hopefully, to rest” aren’t just betraying a misogyny. They are refusing to understand how powerful vulnerability is. Kim Kardashian has always known, and has achieved success and influence because vulnerable is all she has ever been.
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