Everyone knows who Kim Kardashian is. Ever since her sex tape with then-boyfriend Ray J leaked, she has struggled to get away from it, and it remains one of the highest-ranking videos regarding views, raking in an impressive 150 million hits. In 2014, giant porn site Pornhub ranked her as one of the most popular adult actors of the year as searched for by women. She certainly makes a pretty penny from the sex tape and will probably be rich for life just from the royalties.
Before the sex tape, the then 22-year-old was a little-known heiress to the late lawyer Robert Kardashian, a personal stylist of singer Brandy Norwood and girlfriend of his little brother Willie “Ray J” Norwood. Then the sex tape ‘leaked’ and the rest, as they say, is history. She has since built a career based on publicity and bearing it all to the world. No wonder everyone and their mothers consider themselves experts when it comes to matters Kimberly Noel Kardashian.
But was she ever a porn star? That is a question that many people seem to be asking themselves. Today I will be telling you all you need to know about Kim Kardashian.
She wasn’t a porn star
Many people have the misconception that Kim Kardashian used to be a porn star. Well, that is just not true. She wasn’t a porn star in the sense that she started making adult movies for commercial purposes. Like mentioned, Kim used to date singer Ray J, a fact that he has actually tried to make a career comeback out of. It has never been clear whether the two made the sex tape with the intention of making money out of it, but they were in a serious relationship back then.
The video was actually not professionally made; it was grainy, and you could clearly see the shaky camera thing going on. It was just like you would expect from a real homemade sex tape. So, I will repeat myself- Kim Kardashian was never a porn star. Fuck it; she is not even famous for being one. She is merely someone who became famous because of a leaked sex tape.
With that safely out of the way, can we move on to something else? I’ve compiled a list of things you probably didn’t know about the maker of most famous celebrity sex tape in the short history of the genre.
She got bum implants
Well, as if this wasn’t obvious already, Kim admitted to getting bum implants, but far from keeping with the Kardashians’ cosmetic sheen, the reason was actually more complicated.
After receiving loads of scrutiny but remaining one of the most body-positive celebrities, she finally revealed in a live stream that she indeed did get butt implants. She explained that the injections were meant to combat a dent in her skin caused by a side effect of her psoriasis medication.
“I lived right behind Kitson. One of my neighbors was a dermatologist at Cedars. I go in there, and he’s like, ‘ There’s a one in a billion chance that you will get a huge indent in your butt.’ Of course, I get a huge indent on my butt.
“There is a picture of me in Miami wearing an electric blue dress and another picture of me walking down Robertson. You see the indent. And I think that’s when the rumors started: ‘She’s had implants.‘”
So, there you have it. With that mystery solved, can we all sleep easy tonight? Thank you very much.
She’s a good mother
This will shock some people; Kim is not about looking perfect all the time and fake half the time. If you have doubts, then you probably haven’t seen a video of her breasts leaking milk through her nursing pads. She not only shared this intimate moment on her show, but she also laughed off her siblings’ attempt to gag over the scene. Because ultimately, a good mom knows that leaky nipples are just part of the game.
She sold her sex tape for a fortune
On October 22, Kim and her then-boyfriend Ray J went on a trip to a luxury Esperanza resort in Cabo, Mexico, to celebrate Kim’s 23rd birthday. They carried a handheld camcorder with them which they used to record themselves fooling around and having sex.
By 2006, Kim was beginning to make a few media appearances as a friend to Paris Hilton, the Hilton hotel heiress who had made a name for herself for her part in a 2004 sex tape she had recorded with her ex-boyfriend, Rick Salomon.
In 2007, the sex tape was released to the public by porn company Vivid Entertainment as Kim Kardashian, Superstar, a 41-minute movie. But did you know that Kim actually battled hard to keep the tape from leaking before eventually settling out of court?
Steven Hirsch, the founder, and co-chairman of Vivid Entertainment said: “Ultimately she did sell us the footage, so we had the ability to put it out and distribute it.”
The $5 million (£3.98million) rumored to have been paid to her may have been inflated, but Hirsch admitted that it’s the most popular tape they’d ever done. “Revenue-wise it has generated more income than any other tape that we’ve done,” he said.
Finally
So there you have it. That’s all you needed to know about Kim Kardashian, for now at least. In the meantime, keep yourself busy by watching her famous sex tape.
