99 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.

Which TV host and producer came up with the premise for Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

Ryan Seacrest developed the show through Ryan Seacrest Productions with The Osbournes in mind, making it with Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind The Real World.

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 the three eldest Kardashian sisters opened in Calabasas?

The store spawned its own spin-off, Dash Dolls, and gave the family its first business outside Kris's management work.

Which of these was the FIRST spin-off of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, 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 family's ancestors emigrated to America from which ethnic background?

The Kardashians are of Armenian descent: Robert Kardashian's forebears were ethnic Armenians from Karakale, a village near Kars, who emigrated to Los Angeles in 1913.

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

O.J. Simpson: Robert Kardashian, a friend since their USC days in the late 1960s, renewed his attorney's licence to join Simpson's defence team at the 1995 murder trial.

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.

In what year did Robert Kardashian die of oesophageal cancer?

He was diagnosed in July 2003 and died that September, four years before the show made his children famous.

What was Kris Jenner's maiden name?

Houghton: born Kristen Mary Houghton in San Diego in 1955, she was the daughter of Robert Houghton and Mary Jo, who ran a children's clothing store in La Jolla.

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

Kris worked as a flight attendant for American Airlines in 1976, before marrying Robert Kardashian in 1978; she later ran her own production company, Jenner Communications.

In which year did Kris and Robert Kardashian divorce?

The divorce was finalised in March 1991, and Kris married Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner that April; Kendall and Kylie followed in 1995 and 1997.

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

True Thompson was born on April 12, 2018 in Cleveland, where her father Tristan Thompson was playing for the Cavaliers; Khloé's son Tatum followed in 2022.

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

Montreal 1976: Jenner won the decathlon with a world-record 8,618 points, and Wheaties-box fame as 'an all-American hero' followed.

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

I Am Cait ran for two seasons in 2015 and 2016, following Jenner's life after she came out as a trans woman in June 2015 on a Vanity Fair cover.

Where did Caitlyn Jenner finish in California's 2021 gubernatorial recall election?

She finished 13th of 46 replacement candidates with about one percent of the vote as a Republican, and was later hired as a Fox News contributor.

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 on October 31, citing irreconcilable differences.

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

Florence: the ceremony took place at the Forte di Belvedere overlooking the city, after West proposed on her 33rd birthday at San Francisco's AT&T Park the previous October.

What are the names of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's four children?

North was born in 2013, Saint in 2015, Chicago in 2018 and Psalm in 2019.

Kim Kardashian founded which shapewear company in 2019, valued at more than $4 billion by 2023?

Skims was co-founded with Jens and Emma Grede in 2019; it became the NBA's official underwear partner in 2023 and was valued at $4 billion that July.

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

KKW Beauty launched in June 2017 and KKW Fragrance that November; both were wound down by 2022, when Kim relaunched her skincare as SKKN by Kim.

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

Selfish, published by Rizzoli in May 2015, collected hundreds of her selfies; Kimoji was her emoji app from the same year and Kardashian Konfidential the sisters' 2010 book.

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

Paper magazine's Winter 2014 issue, shot by Jean-Paul Goude, showed her balancing a champagne glass on her backside, and the pictures overwhelmed the magazine's website for days.

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

Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence was commuted by Trump in June 2018 after Kim lobbied him in the Oval Office; with Van Jones and Jared Kushner she also backed the First Step Act.

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: on October 3, 2016, robbers bound her in her rented apartment at the Hôtel de Pourtalès and took about $10 million in jewellery; the 'grandpa robbers' were tried in 2025.

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

American Horror Story: Delicate, the twelfth season, cast her as publicist Siobhan Corbyn; she also voiced Delores in two PAW Patrol films and led the 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?

Lemme is her vitamin brand from 2022; Poosh was named after her daughter Penelope's nickname.

Kourtney Kardashian married which Blink-182 drummer?

Travis Barker and Kourtney married in 2022, with a Santa Barbara courthouse wedding followed by a celebration in Italy; their son Rocky was born in November 2023.

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?

He even had a web series, Lord Disick: Lifestyles of a Lord, and later a house-flipping show, Flip It Like Disick.

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

They married on September 27, 2009, one month after meeting at a party, starred in the spin-off Khloé & Lamar, and divorced in 2016; Odom won two NBA titles with the Lakers.

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

Good American launched in October 2016 as a size-inclusive denim line, reportedly selling $1 million of jeans on its first day; Grede later co-founded Kim's shapewear brand too.

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

The X Factor's second US season in 2012 paired her with Mario Lopez as host; she later fronted her own talk show, Kocktails with Khloé, and produced Revenge Body.

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

Dancing with the Stars: in 2011 Rob and partner Cheryl Burke finished runners-up in season 13 to Army veteran J.R. Martinez.

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

Arthur George, launched in 2012, sells men's socks with bold prints and slogans; Rob named the line after his own middle name, Arthur.

Whose 15-year reign as the world's highest-paid model did Kendall Jenner end in 2017?

Gisele Bündchen had topped the Forbes model list since 2002; Kendall, who signed with Wilhelmina as a young teenager, displaced her in 2017 with $22 million in earnings.

Kendall Jenner launched which drinks brand in 2021?

818 Tequila, launched in May 2021, is named after the San Fernando Valley area code where the family lives; Kylie's canned cocktail Sprinter came in 2024.

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

Kylie Lip Kits launched in November 2015 and sold out in minutes; the company was renamed Kylie Cosmetics in February 2016 as production jumped from 15,000 kits to 500,000.

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

Coty also owns Covergirl, Rimmel and OPI; the deal fed the dispute over whether Kylie was really a billionaire.

In 2019 Forbes called Kylie Jenner the world's youngest self-made billionaire at what age?

She was 21 when Forbes' March 2019 cover made the claim; the magazine retracted it in May 2020, saying her team had inflated figures and likely forged tax documents.

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

Rebels: City of Indra was published in 2014, with a sequel, Time of the Twins, in 2016; the twins live in a self-sustaining biosphere built from the remains of Earth.

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

She filed to trademark the phrase in October 2019 and named a Valentine's makeup collection after Stormi too.

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 four grandparents came from provinces in what is now which country?

Turkey: the family's forebears left villages near Kars and Ardahan, in what is now north-eastern Turkey, emigrating to Los Angeles in 1913.

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.