Kris Jenner’s New York Times Profile is Everything

Kris Jenner with her girls at a Calvin Klein party in Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images

I don’t know when or how it happened, but somewhere along the way I fell under the charm of the Kardashians. I’m almost embarrassed to admit it, but now it’s out there forever and ever. So when my parents called to ask about the Met and their first question was who did you talk to and my first answer was Kris Jenner. Well, it wasn’t really the answer they were looking for. But today, the New York Times validates my latest girl crush, profiling the matriarch in their weekend magazine. Reading it, I realized how little I actually knew about Kris (I’ve never seen the show), other than that she was clearly the driving force, the business savvy, behind her multi-million dollar family. On Bruce, she says, “At the end of the day, I just want him to be happy. He’s going to find his happiness, and he’s going to have his journey.”

There was so much more…

—Kris asked artist Michael Turchin to create “a collage of magazine covers of Kris and her family, covered by a painting of Snow White eating the poisoned apple,” that hangs in the foyer.

—Kris makes everyone sign a non-disclosure agreement upon entering the house. (Though the NYT reporter did not.)

—Kris has stocked the bathroom with black toilet paper. Kim hates it. (Sounds chic.)

—Kris LOVES Costco. “Costco is a passion. Costco is like a massage.” Produce, dog beds, surf boards—she doesn’t even surf!!—she can’t help herself. (I so get this. Costco is one of three things I miss about suburbia.)

—Kris’s first project was Bruce. When they married, both broke but determined to have more children, she turned Bruce back into a hero via everything from informercials to motivational speeches.

—Kris wore Nicole Brown Simpson’s hand-me-down maternity clothes during the O.J. Simpson trial. She was pregnant with Kendall at the time.

But seriously, go read it.

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