BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

Kim Kardashian: Family, Kanye, Skims, Paris, Larsa, Lewis Hamilton & Keeping Up (w/ Jonathan Van Meter)

BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

Show Notes

“There’s no better feeling in the world than when someone gets you.” That is what Kim Kardashian said about Jonathan Van Meter who just finished a five year long deep dive book, “Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created The Future”, into the one and only Kim K. Along with Kim’s help, Jonathan chatted with the rest of the fam, Kim’s 6 lifers and more. We talk Kourtney, Khloe, Kris, Kylie, Kendall, Kanye, Skims, SNL, Paris Hilton, the Kardashian men and All’s Fair. Citizen Kim does not treat Kim Kardashian as a punchline, a scandal, or a flat symbol. It treats Kim as one of the defining figures of this century and asks, seriously, how she became possible and what her astonishing rise says about the world we now live in. Jonathan, as we like to say, mentions it all!

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