Untold Stories Behind the Kardashians ft. Kris Jenner | Khloé In Wonder Land Ep. 9

Kim Kardashian
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Khloé sits down with the ultimate momager, Kris Jenner, for a behind the scenes look into parenting the Kardashians.Kris shares her wisdom, funny stories, and life lessons about parenting, dating, and building a family business empire. Get ready for heartwarming moments, wild teenage memories, and insights into how she raised six kids in a blended family.
So five is your close up.
Hi.
High five.
Get it?
High five.
I just got it.
I think when I was about 16 years old, all I wanted to do
was have six kids.
That was my destiny.
And I used to pray about it, and I claimed it.
I don't think anyone questions your determination.
I think everyone knows if you-
I was laser focused.
They have this anxiety and this build up
about the teenage stage.
I know what a terrorist I was as a teenager.
You were wild.
I know.
You were spicy and crazy.
You're confirming that I should be terrified
of the teenage phase.
Absolutely.
You and Kim were like, we're going to film a show,
and you guys have to be on it.
Kourtney and I were like, no, we're not.
We don't want to be on this show.
Then when you were like our manager
and telling us what to do, and we're like,
what are you talking?
Like, you're not going to boss us around.
We were like, what?
You just don't want people thinking,
oh, working with family is a breeze.
No, no, no.
There are challenges for sure.
Just use me as a filler when you don't
want to tape another episode.
Oh, you'll be the host?
No, oh.
Yeah.
You have nurtured that Rolodex.
You will have, I don't know, Jesus sitting right there.
Oh my gosh, that would be great.
That would be great.
Hi, mommy.
Hi.
Hi, I'm so happy that you are on my podcast.
Thank you for inviting me.
We've been talking about this for years.
Not me being here, but you having a podcast.
And I'm really proud of you.
Thank you.
Because I think it's very brave of you
to actually go ahead and pull the trigger
and do this when you were so reluctant to do it for so long,
for so many reasons.
And here you are, and look at you.
Here we are.
I know.
Well, you know, having you on, obviously,
you are what many people aspire to have on any podcast.
But you're my mom.
And I feel like we film together.
And you have a documentary coming out one day.
And there's books about you.
For me, I felt like asking you the typical questions of,
where were you born?
Where were you born?
How was San Diego?
What's your mom like?
I feel like people that are real fans of yours
know those things.
And so, sure, we might glaze over those things.
But I really thought an interesting topic that I feel
is interesting and that people always ask me about.
People are always praising us for our family dynamic.
They always say, whether they come from a family
with a lot of siblings, they always are like, oh my gosh,
you remind me of my mom and my siblings.
Or if they don't have siblings, they dream,
that's their fantasy.
If I had a bunch of siblings, that's the sibling dynamic
and parent dynamic that I would love to have with my family.
So I felt like it would be a great episode
to talk to you about, I think, our dynamic,
the dynamic that you have with your children
and the many phases of that.
But did you always dream about being a mother?
Well, yeah.
I mean, that was the dream.
The dream for me when I was growing up,
all I wanted to do was have six kids.
So much so that I would think about it day and night.
I had things planned out in my head.
I wanted to be, that was my goal in life,
to get married and be able to raise a family,
have six kids and live happily ever after.
And in those days, when I was growing up,
I sound like a dinosaur.
But there were no cell phones.
There were no, I barely had color TV.
So there was no real form of communication
or things to compare yourself to,
or things that inspired me.
So I don't know where and when I got inspired,
but I was watching Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy
and all those shows and the Flintstones
and everything in between the Jetsons.
And you just saw the future and your life
as more traditional in those days.
I was born in the 50s, I was a 50s baby,
and I think I kind of grew up like a 50s child,
even though I graduated from high school in the 70s,
but all I ever wanted to do was have kids.
So the year after I graduated from high school,
I met daddy and I just thought was the dream,
was to have babies and sail off into the sunset.
Do you know what's interesting?
When I was getting divorced from your dad,
I thought, wow, how did that go so sideways?
I was supposed to have six kids.
I always thought that was my destiny.
That was what was gonna happen.
And I used to pray about it and I claimed it
and it was gonna happen.
So I really thought I messed up
when there weren't six of you guys at the time.
I think about that often.
I thought how interesting that that was one
of the main takeaways from that whole experience.
And I think also maybe, and it's so crazy to think this,
but you had Kendall and Kylie when you were 40 and 41
and 28 years ago or 27 years ago,
it was really rare for someone in their 40s to have children.
It was almost like whispered about, like taboo,
like she's 40 and she's gonna have a baby, is she nuts?
And so, and then it was obviously safe
to have babies at that age,
but everybody thought there was also some danger to it.
Like what's going on?
How could she have a baby in her 40s?
Aren't all her eggs gone?
And it was very controversial.
Well, so I'm sure even you probably thought
that ship has sailed.
I didn't know what to think.
I thought I got pregnant right away
and then had a miscarriage.
But I also had a miscarriage
right before Robert was born.
So at a couple months, right before I got pregnant with Rob,
I had a miscarriage.
And then I had a miscarriage right before Kendall.
So when I got pregnant with Kendall,
it was, we were really trying,
because I thought, you know, I'm not,
this isn't taking me down.
I will show my body, you know, you almost,
it's almost like a challenge to get pregnant.
I don't think anyone questions your determination.
I think everyone knows if you-
I was laser focused, laser focused.
If you say you're gonna do something,
you're gonna do something.
And if somebody said, if I read something that said,
drink iced tea or take, you know,
Pepto Bismol or have three coffees
or whatever somebody's recommendation was,
I would do whatever it took, you know,
to try and get pregnant.
Like all these little old wives tales and everything.
I was under the bed one time,
you and your ex-husband were trying,
and that was, I still go to therapy over that.
Yeah, but you snuck into my bedroom.
I was playing hide and go seek,
and nobody found me, and I fell asleep.
You were with Francesca.
So you apparently, who were you looking for, each other?
You were hiding under my bed.
It was gross.
And you didn't get caught.
You decided to stay there because it sounded exciting.
And you got an earful.
And you being tortured for the rest of your life
is exactly what you deserve.
Great, well.
Those sounds will never leave your.
No, they won't.
Wait, how did you get out of there?
Did we catch you under the bed, or did you wait?
I ran out, and you guys were like, what was that?
Oh, so we didn't, at the time, know it was you.
Yeah, well you, like, I ran out,
because at first we were like, huh,
I think we were like, oh my God, and like a little giggling.
And then you guys were like, I think I hear something.
And then when you guys said that, we ran.
And then you were like, what was that?
Who was that?
And no one came to find us for a while,
because I think you guys were probably so mortified
as I would be, too.
Probably trying to figure out the game plan.
Like, what do we say?
Like, what do we say we were doing?
Let's say we were wrestling.
Yeah, no, I knew what was happening.
It was an Olympic competition.
Gross, I can't even think about this anymore.
Okay, this is like a therapy session.
Are you gonna make me go through every childhood trauma?
No, that's not what this is about.
Like, work it out?
No.
Tell you're satisfied?
If Courtney was here, then that would probably happen,
but I'm good.
All right, good.
I don't feel like I have a lot of childhood traumas.
Thank God.
I don't.
That makes one.
Yeah.
Well, me and Kim, I think, are on the same boat.
And what I find interesting,
because I don't remember,
like, I absolutely despise when people call Kendall
and Kylie our half sisters,
because I'm like, no, those are my real sisters.
I was born and raised with them,
spent every minute with them.
And so I really find that insulting
when people say that about us.
So I don't like that term.
None of us like that term.
And-
I don't even think about that term.
We don't think-
Or use that term.
We never do.
But like, just other people,
I just hate when they label them.
Have to recognize the divide.
Yeah, I really, really hate that.
I don't hate a lot of things.
But I think something that you did so well,
because I hear from so many blended families,
like, it's so hard to integrate my first set of kids
with the other set of kids,
but I don't remember there ever being with any one of us.
I think Kendall and Kylie were born when I was
maybe like 11 and 12, something like that.
Okay.
Maybe younger, I don't know.
95.
So you were-
I was 11.
You were 11.
So, but I don't remember ever
there needing to be even a discussion or,
it just, even with my dad, I felt like everything,
I don't know, we've always had this
really strong family dynamic.
We never felt like-
No, you were at the hospital.
All of us.
When I gave birth.
All of us.
So you guys all came and it was like,
here's your baby sister.
Like, this is, we're all going home together.
We're all in this together.
You're sleeping on the floor and, you know.
But do you have any, I don't even know if you do,
because for us it was not,
I don't think it was methodical or talked about,
but do you have any tips for people
that are trying to blend families or nervous about that?
You know, I think that it's a little bit different
if you have parents with two sets of,
you know, two families and each parent
has a different set of children with somebody else.
That's a little bit different.
It's a little bit harder to really integrate the kids.
And if the kids get along, then, you know,
that's obviously a lot easier.
But with Kendall and Kylie,
I felt like I had two litters of kids
and it was just so natural
that one just came a little bit later than the other.
And it was, you guys,
I think from the day I got pregnant with Kendall
and the day I got pregnant with Kylie,
you guys were so involved in every discussion,
every doctor's appointment, decorating the nursery,
you know, where we were gonna live
because we were looking for,
now we had to get a bigger house and that was the year.
In 1996, right after Kendall was born
and before Kylie was born, we moved to Hidden Hills.
And it was all about finding this big, you know,
massive house that everybody could have their own bedroom.
And, you know, I think the minute that we came home
from the hospital with number five,
I think you were in love with your sister
and so was everybody else.
And, you know, there was never a thought
of she doesn't belong to me, she's not mine,
this is my sister.
And everybody was so protective and loving
and, you know, it was just, you know,
we did everything together.
And nobody was ever left out, not even your dad.
Your dad came over way before we, you know,
obviously when Kendall was born
and he just wanted us to know and you guys to know,
I'm Uncle Robert.
I really think what it has to do with,
and I always say this, is the parents.
Yeah.
Oh, 100,000%.
Yeah, if children see that this is normal and okay
by all parents, everybody involved,
then the kids are like, okay, this is okay.
Because I think hatred and all of that stuff is learned.
That's not innate in anybody.
You know, I think it causes so much trauma
to the children and unhappiness
and just being very anxious, a lot of anxiety
and people really trying to tiptoe around parents' feelings.
And that's really not the child's responsibility.
It's really for us as parents
to make you guys feel loved and comfortable.
Well, I know from my personal experience with Tristan
and how we're such good co-parenters
is because of the example that I've had my whole life,
from you and my dad's dynamic to Bruce
and my dad's dynamic and it's all I saw.
So for me, it was a no-brainer.
And I do really think that, yes,
you don't need that example.
You can do it on your own.
But when you have that example, it's all you know
and it's just embedded in you and it's so easy.
And for that, like, it's, I think, one of the best lessons
because it's so peaceful for my children
and they deserve that.
Peaceful is such a great, important, powerful word
because it really does, you know,
you don't let the divide and the trauma
and the nastiness come in at all.
It's almost like you've built a wall
where none of that can get in
because you're showing your kids how to live
this amazing life together.
And this has, exactly.
And they want to feel loved.
Children want to feel, you guys,
all my job as a mom was to make sure you were safe
and you felt loved and secure in a really special place.
And that was the most important thing to me.
And if we could get there, and you know what?
It wasn't even something that we sat down and talked about,
although I feel like we would have
if it got nasty or anything at some point.
But I think that when people get divorced,
I feel like there's always a cooling off period
where people have to find their way
and come to terms with what's just happened
and maybe the fact that you're not gonna be
with this person forever.
But when you have kids with somebody,
you are with that person.
You're connected forever for the rest of your life,
in my mind.
Yes, of course.
And that's how I've always lived my life.
And I, you know, would share everything with your dad.
And then after we had our cooling off period,
is what I like to call it, we became best friends.
And he would come once we moved to Hidden Hills
and Kendall was born and then Kylie followed.
And you guys were, you know, young 11 year olds
or teenagers and all that.
He'd come walking in the back door at any time.
What's for dinner?
You know, he'd be there Christmas morning.
He'd be there on your birthdays.
We'd give our parties.
We would, you know, co-host everything that you guys did.
And he just wanted to be a part of every special moment
and wanna be a part of the planning of it too.
I would call him up and go,
hey, Rob's graduating from, you know, this or that,
where are we gonna go?
You know, or, you know, from kindergarten,
he would be a part of the recital
when you were four years old in nursery school.
You know, but I mean, we were still married then,
but I mean, he was a part of all of those moments.
And what I mean is he still wanted to be a part
of every single moment.
He came to Kendall and Kylie's birthday parties.
I know.
You know, as uncle Robert.
Yeah.
So it was a pretty special time.
And I think that the best thing that happened
because of all of that was that you guys,
it takes a village.
But it takes all like-minded adults.
It takes a village.
And I wish people would put their own ego and issues aside
for the betterment of children,
because it makes such a difference in the long run.
I don't think people realize that them winning,
everybody wants to win, whatever the argument was,
whatever the, you know, the reason for the divorce,
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So you and my dad and Bruce were,
I would say partners in raising all of us.
And I think all three of you guys did an incredible job.
And then my dad died in 2003.
And so I think you always had that person to lean on.
My dad died, my brother was 16, I was 19,
and I forget, Kourtney and Kim in their young 20s.
And having that person, I think,
just really abruptly taken away,
how did your role change of being a parent that had,
yes, we still had Bruce,
but it is different when our real dad is now gone.
And he was also, he...
He was so present in your lives
and such a big part of our day-to-day.
So it wasn't just like, oh, your dad lives in Iowa
and he's not around very much or he's not an available.
He was emotionally available to you guys in such a big way.
And he was emotionally available to me.
And that really meant the world to me
because he was always there.
And when I got remarried, Bruce didn't have a lot of money
and I didn't have a lot of money.
And we were trying to put it together
and we were all collectively paying for private school
and all these different things.
But one of the funniest things
and one of the nicest, most lovely things
that your dad did was, when I was going through this,
your dad used to kind of jokingly harp on me
for my Neiman Marcus bill.
So every month it was the Neiman's bill.
Oh, her and the Neiman's bill,
she's still using my Neiman's card.
Right, I was gonna say it was his card, but yes.
Let's talk about this relatable story, please.
But anyway, it was a charge card.
I was spending too much money.
And so later when I was remarried,
I remember one time he goes, do you need anything?
I know it's crazy over there.
And I said, well, if you want to help me pay my,
now I had my own Neiman's card.
And I asked him, would you pay the bill this month?
And he goes, sure.
And he paid my Neiman's card bill that month
and I'll never forget it.
And we laughed about that.
He goes, if you would have told me years ago
that I would still be paying your Neiman Marcus bill,
you know, or your clothing bill all these years later.
And so we got a good laugh out of that.
But I just think that when you're supportive
and you can raise kids together
and be there for one another and do it as a team,
it was definitely something where we were all aware of.
That's a lot of people.
I mean, six kids is a lot of kids.
And he was really well aware of the fact
that I was juggling.
And by the way, my relationship with you changed
the minute I had Kendall.
Because you really grew up and came to bat for me
because you were like my little helper.
You were mama's helper,
because I was working from home.
And whenever you came home from school or on the weekends,
you always helped me with Kendall and then Kylie,
which changed my world because we didn't have a nanny.
I had somebody to help me with housework and stuff
and somebody to help,
which then turned into somebody helping with the kids
while I was working in my home office.
But I just remember you were,
you had this amazing bond with them, the little ones,
because you were so in love with them.
And you knew I could use the help
and you found a gazillion ways to entertain them.
You really did.
You'd feed them, you'd bathe them,
you'd help put on their pajamas,
you'd take them for walks,
you'd play with them in their playhouse outside
or you'd swim with them or whatever it was.
And that made, I think that not only made your bond
with them so strong, but our bond so strong,
because you were doing something that,
Kendall and Kylie were out the house by then.
I mean, Kourtney and Kimberly were,
Kourtney was, went to college
and Kim ran off and got married.
And I didn't find out for a minute
until Kourtney found it on the internet.
So that was wild.
I mean, we've been through some wild stuff together.
And I think that does make a family close.
Did you feel a shift of your role as a parent
when my dad passed away?
And if you didn't, that's fine.
I felt a huge shift and a huge responsibility.
And now it was, you have to say,
okay, I'm the mom and the dad.
I have to make the decisions
that him and I used to make together
because no matter what happened,
him and I would always discuss
whatever was going on with you guys
and make decisions together, school decisions.
I remember before he passed, he was, Rob was living with him
and we had this really crazy plan
that he was going to make sure
that Rob was prepared and prepped for college
and for the college exams
and filling out all the paperwork to get into USC
and different colleges that he wanted to apply to.
And I thought, oh great, this is your lane.
This is, I'm so happy this is happening.
You know, we're, this was early like 2003
and it was such a relief to me
that he was so, you know, wanted to be there for Rob.
And when he passed, I was lost.
I am not scholastic like that.
I wasn't the one who was doing homework with Rob.
I wouldn't know how to do high school homework.
I mean, that was like so out of my, you know,
realm of things that I would be good at
or help somebody else with.
Sometimes I'm doing first grade homework
and I'm like, what is Singapore math?
I know, hello?
Singapore math.
I don't know what that is.
Exactly.
Okay.
Try it.
No.
I'm gonna make you do it one day.
No.
Excuse me, what happened to just regular addition?
One plus one, I know.
Well, he was really instrumental
in just helping your brother mature
and go through those teenage years of his life.
And I knew the girl thing inside and out,
but the boy thing was a bit, you know,
I just thought, oh, Rob's got this.
Robert's got this.
Do you think you're more of a girl mom or a boy mom?
Or can you adapt to both?
I learned how to adapt to both.
Yeah, I think I was more of a girl mom.
Right.
But then Rob was the most adorable,
perfect, funny, loving, athletic.
I mean, he was just everything that,
he was a boy, but all boy.
What is your favorite stage of a kid?
Like, I'm not a huge infant type of person.
Like, I like infants, but I'm like,
all right, can we do something?
Like, I like more.
I love the infant stage.
I love the way they smell.
I love the cuddling.
You guys were such angels, except Courtney.
Oh, God.
Let's not give her more trauma.
She just threw up on everybody.
Everybody.
We couldn't get that formula right.
So that was challenging.
But after I got through that,
I think I love the baby, baby stage.
Then when they first learned to walk,
that always used to be an adjustment for me
because we always had stairs and a lot going on
and it was running around trying to chase
four little kids around.
It was nuts.
I think for me, my biggest, right now,
I don't know, I gotta get this out of my head.
Okay.
Is that I have this anxiety and this buildup
about the teenage stage.
I know what a terrorist I was as a teenager.
You were wild.
I know.
You were spicy and crazy.
Okay, this isn't like.
Chloe, Chloe.
So each one of you probably had a good 18 months
of hell week.
I called it hell week, but it was really 18 months.
And one of the things you used to do regularly,
I might add, was we had a bedroom.
You had a bedroom that had a patio off of the bedroom.
You put me downstairs.
Because the other kids took my room,
so I moved downstairs.
Well, the babies needed to be up by us.
So you're downstairs,
and I think you're a pretty mature young lady,
but you're also very creative and resourceful.
And you used to stuff your bed
as if it was a person sleeping,
under the covers, lock your door, leave the room,
but lock that door.
And then you would leave.
And I don't know when you came back
or how you got back in,
but this went on for a minute,
and I fell for it,
until one night,
I just thought, there's no way she's this good of a kid,
and puts herself to bed every night at eight o'clock,
and doesn't come out of that room
until seven o'clock the next morning.
And we had to break into your room,
and that's when we found out
that you had been stuffing your bed and leaving.
And then another time,
that I still can't get out of my head,
and I'm sort of like a little angry about it,
is you were friends,
let's call it you were friends with somebody,
and you used to cook for them.
Are you gonna talk about the pots?
You took the pots and pans.
I can't let it go.
I cannot let it go.
I will buy you new pots and pans.
I have pots and pans,
but you took my favorite pots and pans
from Tower Lane that I used to make.
That was my pilaf pan.
And you took my pilaf pan.
What can I do to make this up to you?
Because you bring this up on a weekly basis.
I know.
I can't.
What can I do?
There's nothing.
Okay, so we're just gonna talk about it forever.
Well, we're in the right, you know, forum.
This is the right.
It happens once a week, the pilaf pan.
Okay, well the pilaf pan.
So that was my favorite pan.
I gotta do something about that.
I said to you, where's my pilaf pan?
I went to go make pilaf.
I made pilaf twice a week.
And you like did not know where the pilaf
magically disappears.
And you were-
It was blue, right?
Blue.
The blue pilaf pan with the clear top,
the clear glass lid.
And I used to make my pilaf
and I was so happy with that pan.
I wore it in.
It was the perfect like cookware.
And you just really took my pan.
And I asked you, bring the pan,
just go to the guy's house and get the pan back.
And you just wouldn't.
I just wouldn't do it.
No, you wouldn't.
And then, but then my phone disappeared.
I feel like at the end of this episode,
we should be like in loving memory to the pilaf pan.
RIP.
Yeah.
And my phone with the $6,000 bill
that somebody, you loaned my phone to somebody
when cell phones first became a thing.
And I said, where's my phone?
You did.
And I said, where's my phone?
And I think, or somebody took it from you.
That you had a cell phone missing?
It was lost.
So now I'm looking for it.
I had to get a new phone.
And when I got the bill.
Who has a $6,000 cell phone bill?
I did.
I'm not sure about this story.
It was from Europe.
Wow, I'm so cheap.
Somebody took.
Who knew?
I knew people from Europe.
Somebody took the phone to Europe
and charged all this money on my phone.
And I'm like, these are her friends.
So your grandmother used to say,
show me your friends and I'll show you
who you're gonna be.
And I was like, these friends,
they're taking the pilaf pan.
And the phone to Europe.
They sound pretty chic and cultured.
They know what to take.
They probably were.
Yeah, they know what to take.
They probably were.
But anyway, you gave me a run for my money.
And you were.
You're confirming that I should be terrified
of the teenage phase.
Absolutely.
I feel like it was always what it seemed.
So seamless for you.
And I would love, even for myself,
for the listeners out there,
what are some tips?
How do you handle your children?
Because we drink together.
I mean, now I'm 40.
But there is that, I would think,
there's that transitional period
that you have to, okay, this is normal.
My daughter's ordering wine at dinner,
but she's of age.
I don't know.
Was that ever strange for you?
You know what?
I remember when you guys were getting
a little bit older, and my girlfriend
used to say, she used to get so mad at me
because she felt like I wasn't tough enough.
I wasn't the disciplinarian that she was
or that she thought was appropriate.
And I would say to her, but I wanna do this my way.
Well, these aren't your friends,
though you're too much of a friend.
You're not the parent.
I said, oh, no, I'm the parent.
But I didn't carry these kids around
for nine months in my body and then give birth to them
and raise them and come this far.
And now they're young adults,
or they're gonna be a teenager soon
to just let it all go and just be their parent,
and that's the end.
These are gonna be my soulmates for the rest of my life.
I want to be able to find our own love language
with each one of my kids,
because you guys are all so different,
but yet we have a thread, we're all so alike.
And I think that that's what makes us so close
is we love each other so much,
but that was always the lesson.
You know, I always said God first, family second,
and everything else comes after that.
And I taught you and raised you like that.
We went to church and I took you to Bible study
when you were a toddler and when you got a little bit older
and tried to instill those types of belief and spirituality,
because I think it's a huge part of growing up
and it's how we live our lives now.
We believe in God and we say our prayers
and you have Bible study at your house
on Thursday nights with your kids and all the cousins.
And I think prayer is so important in our family
and we all pray a lot about everything.
And I really think that's an important part
of who we all are.
And then I think that just our love language,
my love language with each one of you
is just a little bit different.
And I find that seeing each one of you
and letting you be who you are,
while at the same time, you know that I'm your safety net.
Well, you do an excellent job at that.
It's hard.
It is hard, but I think the hardest part would be
when your kids start dating.
I think by nature,
I was a very welcoming person
to whoever you guys brought home.
Yes.
Whether it was a stray cat or a guy from fourth grade
or as you guys got older, you know,
it was the dating, suddenly you were dating.
And the challenges that come with that
definitely tested my, you know,
ability to control my temper sometimes.
I'd be so mad that you guys would try
to pull the stuff that you would pull
or the dating that you tried to do
until I think you realized we're all good.
Bring everybody here.
And we became the house that everybody liked to hang out at.
When you guys would become very close to somebody,
we welcome them into our family with open arms.
We have the time of our lives.
We're close.
We have very intimate, you know, relationships
with all of the people in our family
and the people that you guys are dating.
And it's really fun.
But when you guys break up with somebody,
I feel like I break up with somebody.
Totally.
It's so sad for me, you know,
I feel like, wow, this was such a crazy time in our lives.
I can't believe they're not here anymore
because sometimes I get caught up in your joy
or your desire to want to build yourself,
your life, your family.
And then when it doesn't work out,
I'm heartbroken too.
You know, when something breaks your heart,
it breaks my heart.
But I think-
But you're also very forgiving
because we can be like, so-and-so is a piece of,
did X, Y, and Z.
And then we're like, we're never talking to them again.
And then next week we're like,
okay, we're back with this person.
And you're like, okay.
And here we go.
Yeah, and you're very forgiving
where I would be like, I might kill that person.
You know what, it's the,
what did they say?
The only person when you get really angry with somebody
or you get, you know,
you build up all this hatred towards somebody,
the only person it's really hurting is yourself.
I remember when I was, I want to say 15,
I didn't have a license yet.
And I stole Bruce's expedition
and I was driving on the 101 by the 405,
like right where it crosses over.
And it's like a little turn anyway.
So I guess I swerved a little and I got pulled over
and I was wearing a really cute skirt from Forever 21.
Of course you were.
And I'll mention why I remember that skirt.
And I remember the police officer was like,
what's, can I have your license?
And you know, registration.
And I said, oh, I don't have my license,
but my name is, I think I said Kourtney Kardashian,
but my birthday is, and I gave Kim's birthday.
So of course they were like, you're lying.
Get out of the car.
I got taken to jail.
I remember that.
So I went to jail and they called you
and it was, I don't know, like nine or 10 at night.
And I was just, they took me there.
I didn't go to jail.
Like they took me to a precinct or whatever,
just until you came to pick me up.
And they impounded the car and you were like,
what's wrong with you?
You're dressed, look at this short skirt you're wearing.
You look like you could have been a hooker.
But this is all private.
Like in front of everyone, you were like,
oh, she's a great girl.
Like, you were so sweet.
Like, ah, teenagers, I don't know why she did that.
Or sisters, whatever you said.
They let us go like with a warning.
You didn't tell Bruce that we impounded his car for 30 days.
And somehow we made up some story.
Because you were like, I'm not gonna get.
I remember he couldn't get the car the next day.
And he's like, where's my Escalade?
And oh, it had a scratch.
And I took it right to the shop.
But to me, you were like, you,
I can't believe you did this.
Get in the car.
Yeah, you were like cussing me out.
I was on punishment, but you kept it from Bruce.
And I was always like, that was really nice of you.
That was really cool of you that you did that.
You guys showed me a lot of respect.
So even though you were probably shaking,
because that was a horrible thing to go through
and scared of what I might do or how I would react,
you know my temperature.
You know that when I get really mad and get in the car,
you're dead, get in the car, I'm gonna.
You know that I don't mean any of that.
You just know that because you know me, your mom.
And I'm gonna get in the car
and we're gonna laugh about it one day.
Did you ever think you would be working
with all of your children?
And not only working with them,
but because it started out the clothing stores
and us working together.
But then managing their careers and everything
and basically guiding their futures.
I think the way that our lives unfolded
is one of the best things that I've ever,
I could have ever dreamt of.
And it was like the perfect storm.
And did I see it coming?
No.
I think the way it all unfolded was the perfect storm.
And I think that it was started out
because I needed to pay the bills.
And it ended up because we're working
with our favorite people and having the time of our lives.
To this day I get excited about getting up in the morning
and what we're gonna do today
because I feel like every day we have a different job
or we're working for a different company.
You know we're always filming our show
and they're right over there.
Those Kardashian people.
The filmers.
But I can't, I guess I could never also have imagined it
to even include another generation.
Which is so amazing.
Like now my grandchildren get to shoot with us
or film with us.
Or even just if they don't wanna film, be in the room.
Like it's the kind of thing where we can all work together.
I also think our dynamic at the beginning,
like it was challenging.
I know more so for Court and I
for you to be our manager at first.
Cause we were like, what are you talking?
Like you're not gonna boss us around.
Like we were like, what?
We don't even wanna do this.
Like at first when you guys were like,
when you and Kim were like, we're gonna film a show
and you guys have to be on it.
Court and I were like, no we're not.
We don't wanna be on this show.
You guys were like, no, you're gonna be on the show.
We're on the show.
We're doing a show.
And it just sort of happened.
And you were like, it's only gonna be one season.
It's not a big deal.
Just do the show.
And we just did it.
But then when you were like our manager
and telling us what to do and where to go
and it was hard for us to differentiate mom
and then a manager.
It was hard for, I would say the first few years.
To get the rhythm.
To be like, okay, she's ordering me around
or telling me to do this, but not as my mom.
Cause we would be defensive.
We're like, what are you doing?
Like it was, I think Kim
and you always had a very easy rapport
and respect and this.
And I had respect for you as my mom,
but I was like, you are not my boss.
Like that was my, just my attitude towards you
until I had to realize, okay, she's this is manager Chris.
Well, I had to put you in two different categories
until I think our relationship really became very seamless
once I had kids.
And it was always a great relationship,
but the management mom role was always very hard for me
to just, sometimes if I wanted to talk to you
about manager stuff, you would be defensive.
Which one is my mom today?
But it would be hard or you would want to talk about work
when we're at dinner and I'm like, no,
like that's not what I want to do right now.
So it was always.
No, we definitely had to figure it out.
The transition of that was definitely.
And when to turn it off.
That was always hard for me.
I don't think I've ever learned how to turn,
when I get on a role, that's always been one of my,
well, it's hard for me to turn things off
because I get so excited about stuff.
And that to me is like, if we're at dinner,
that's my dessert.
Let's talk about that.
Well, I think you have a passion for everything in life.
You're a very passionate person,
but I just don't want people thinking,
oh, working with family is a breeze and this.
It's not, it does.
No, no, no.
There are.
Challenges for sure.
All the time.
Yeah, and I think it takes a minute
to be comfortable in those roles
and know people's positions
and learn to not take things so seriously
and put them in that work role,
as you would if you had a legit boss.
Yeah, and it's hard when I get angry at somebody,
if somebody doesn't show up or cancels
or can't do it or doesn't want to do it
or, you know, really up.
I, inside I'm going crazy.
And then, you know, I'm singing Stormy song,
patience, like I'm losing my mind,
but on the inside and on the outside,
I'm trying to be, you know, professional.
If it's a professional setting and go, okay,
this is what needs to be done.
Because like I said, I'm solution-based,
but whether it's teaching you how to tie your shoes
or teaching you how to create a new business,
we've had so many different,
I feel like I've had nine lives.
You have.
And all these different decades and different chapters.
But I think the best thing about every one of your lives
is one of your biggest strengths, I would say,
and you have many,
would be your ability to nurture
and curate these relationships
from every different life that you've had.
And you've never let them go.
And you have this Rolodex of people
that you can call, rely on, ask for something,
and they ask you the same.
Like you've really,
I'm not great at nurturing relationships.
I'm like, I'm busy.
I got kids.
Like I don't have time to chit-chat
and go to dinners and do that.
And I don't know how on earth you have time, but you do.
And even if you don't,
you make people feel so loved and seen
and that they're so important to you.
And I think that's why.
I think that's something that people can all take away.
It doesn't matter what world you're in,
but whatever that world is,
make sure that you do nurture those relationships
and that you never burn a bridge
and that every bridge you can walk back over
at some point in life,
because we're all gonna need to.
And I know that when I'm like, I wanna do this,
or let's start this business or do that,
you're like, I know someone that is an expert in that field.
Let me call them and let's get advice from that.
Every single person.
I could name 50 people
and I know you know every single one of them,
or there's someone that knows that person.
And you can always reach out to those people.
You've never burned a bridge.
And I think that, and if you have burned a bridge,
it wasn't worth going back over anyways.
It's very intentional.
And that is something that I really admire.
And I feel, I hope that when my kids get older
and I have a little more energy at the end of the day,
that I will be able to do the same.
Because it's such an amazing gift to do that.
Because it is, it takes energy and finessing.
Your girlfriends are super important in your life.
They play such a huge, important role.
And I think you don't realize that until you do get older.
But I think that, I think I've taught you that
because you've said to me numerous times
how you and your friends sit and say,
I wanna be like my mom and her friends
because she's got these great girlfriends.
And I think that's a really rich, rewarding,
important part of life as you get older.
Because you do share ups and downs.
And as you get older, you lose a lot of people.
And life gets sad at times that you didn't have
those experiences when you were younger.
And the fact that you guys have each other is amazing.
You and your siblings are so close.
And you might be closer to one than the other.
You might be, this year you're closer to Kim.
And next year it'll be Courtney.
And then it'll be Rob.
And then, always a different,
beautiful, delicious, loving relationship.
But it's always a little bit different.
And relationships change.
Just like from time to time, they change.
But nothing changes about the love language.
You find that really great way to be
and have that relationship,
at least for me, with each one of you.
Because you're all so different and we have different.
People say to me, who's your favorite?
Well, today, my favorite's Chloe.
Because I'm on the podcast and we,
I do have, of course I have a favorite every,
a different favorite every day.
You might be my, you might be my favorite
for 30 days in a row.
That's weird.
But it's not weird.
It's like, I'm so in love with Rob this month.
Like, I'm spending all my time with Rob
and Rob and I are working on this or we're doing that.
But they don't do your favorite
because you're vibing so much with Rob this month.
Well, I'm just saying, favorite is a silly word.
But I mean it lightly.
I mean, who am I hanging out with right now?
Who am I connecting with?
Who am I exchanging ideas with and creating with
and being passionate with?
Who wants, like, Kendall and I will sit
and talk about design ideas
because she's working on something for days.
You know, or Courtney, who can't even pick a paint color,
you know, will drive me up a wall
because she can't get into the process of it.
So I'll talk to her about something else.
And I think it's really when your kids are teenagers,
learning how to pay attention to what their interests are
and what, how to help them find their passion.
I have a random question.
For you, because you were married twice,
very long-term marriages, and then you start dating.
Like, how weird was that for you?
Because we're adults, yes, but like, was that weird?
Like, I can't seem to date because of my young kids.
Like, I'm like, I don't want to expose them to that.
Is it different when,
because you dated after my dad to meet Bruce, obviously.
What is weirder?
I would think when they're adults,
because they're judgy.
Well, it's weird when they're adults
because if your adult children don't get along
with your significant other or the person you're dating,
it's never gonna work.
Was Corey not like, I'm gonna,
obviously, I'm sure when he met you,
he knew, obviously, that you have six kids.
I think three of them were with me
when the night I met him in Spain.
But yeah, I think it was pretty well-known
that I have six kids.
And that doesn't, I mean, doesn't throw anyone off.
It did not throw Corey off.
I think he loves you guys.
There's hope for me yet.
No, I think when you're, listen,
if one of us is with a partner,
we're kind of all with that partner.
I mean, it's like all for one and one for all.
We all have to kind of decide.
Like, it would be in our family.
I'm talking about our situation.
I'm not saying this is the way everybody should be.
But we're pretty connected
and we're pretty intuitive of one another's feelings
and our energies.
And I think if somebody, if we feel like one of us,
you know, is in the wrong relationship,
we're pretty vocal about it.
And I think that we know
that we just want each other to be happy
and we all spend all of our time together.
So for us, it would never work
if there was friction with the kids.
I don't remember the first time I met Corey.
I just remember the first time
I knew you were talking to someone
and because you were smiling and texting and being weird.
And I'm like, what the, I know that face.
And I'm like, who are you texting?
And you're like, this guy I met.
And it was just to see you that giddy and smiley and happy.
It was really cute.
But I don't remember the first time I physically met him.
But Corey's been around for over 10 years or 10 years.
Almost 11 years.
And he hasn't left yet with all of our craziness.
Corey was somebody also that had been in his career,
had worked with a high profile person
and he was very well aware of how a life like this goes
and all the things that came with it.
And we would walk into a restaurant in another country
and walk into the George Sunk in Paris
and they would go, Corey,
and whisk us right back into the table that blah, blah, blah
and through the kitchen so we could get out of there.
And he knew all about security and all about all the drivers
and seemed to know everybody in LA and everybody in my life.
And it was a very safe feeling to be able to date someone
who you didn't have to explain how our life worked.
I know that's a weird thing to say
and a very probably unrelatable thing,
but it was my reality.
And I felt really comfortable with the fact
that I didn't have to make excuses for our lifestyle
or for the way we lived and explain it to him.
He was explaining it to me.
And he was making my life easier
and saying, oh my God, let's do that.
And then we travel really well together
and all we did was travel.
We still, that's all we do is we're going here, going there.
You guys do, it's amazing.
And working and he knows
that if I'm gonna be in another country
and if we're trying to do something fun,
I'm still gonna be working at 2 a.m.
and I have to set an alarm and do this and do that.
And he helps facilitate all the things.
He doesn't try to control you.
He lets you be you.
And he makes it easier to be me.
But it is interesting that he has no kids
and he's with someone that has the most kids and grandkids
and we're always together.
Does he ever get annoyed that we're?
No.
I'm always, because we're neighbors.
So I just walk on in and I'm like,
hey, Corey, sitting on the couch eating,
like watching TV and I'm like,
sorry, just wanna go see my mom.
Like, I'm sure he's like, what the someone?
He doesn't care.
He never says he does.
He's never, he would never.
I'm sure deep down he's like, what the ****?
No, he's proud of you guys.
I mean, he's been around long enough to see
a lot of the things that you guys do
and how passionate you are and how hard you work.
And nothing's handed to you, nothing.
And he sees and respects that and talks about that
and just admires how much everybody has so much
just focus and vision and creativity.
And I think that anybody who's watching from the inside,
which is very few people,
get to really see how we are day to day.
And I think it is amazing for somebody like him
to sit back and say, wow, this is incredible.
I have a very serious question.
What?
Oh God, what?
Who's my favorite?
No.
Okay.
I wouldn't ask such a thing.
What makes a great martini?
Oh, now we're talking.
Yeah.
Now you've got my number.
Yeah.
A great martini is shaken, not stirred.
It's putting a generous amount of vodka
in a metal martini shaker with about six ice cubes.
Six.
Shake, shake, shake until it's freezing cold,
straining it into the glass.
You don't always need to strain.
If I'm in a hurry, you pour it directly into the glass,
two olives, and enjoy.
It's just a glass of vodka.
That's what that is.
Well, it's typically with vermouth.
Right, but yours is straight up vodka.
It's straight up.
But if you go to a restaurant and say,
I want a martini,
they're gonna say, do you want blue cheese or regular?
Gross.
And you just-
I don't like blue cheese.
You want regular.
At least that's the way I drink them.
Yours is just vodka.
Just say, can I have a shot of vodka?
That's what I would say.
No, it's about the experience.
You have to like hold the martini glass,
think Frank Sinatra music.
Oh, love.
You know what I mean?
I do.
Get into the, everything's an experience.
This was an experience,
just like the martini experience.
Oh my God.
Thank you.
