Sabtu, 15 September 2012

Kim Kardashian Defends Her Claim to Fame, Being a Role Model


In a recent interview with The Guardian, Kim Kardashian compared getting through her divorce from Kris Humphries to beating cancer. The full interview is now out and, as expected, is packed with many other gems as well.

For instance, she tries to defend her claim to fame by explaining that, while in theory any person on the planet could become famous for nothing, not all of them can also last for more than 15 minutes in the spotlight.

She could and still can, and this alone speaks volumes for why she’s famous.

“When I hear people say [what are you famous for?], I want to say, what are you talking about?” Kim says for the British publication, slowly rolling her eyes.

“I have a hit TV show. We’ve shot more episodes than I Love Lucy! We’ve been on the air longer than The Andy Griffith Show! I mean, these are iconic shows, so it blows my mind when people say that,” she goes on to say.

She won’t accept the “but it’s just a reality show” argument either.

“But to be able to open up your life like that and to be so… if everyone could do it, everyone would. It doesn’t make sense to me,” Kim says.

In other words, Kim is convinced that, say what you will about her and the reason she’s hogging the spotlight, her “work” is important.

Her millions of fans from all over the world stand as testimony to that. Kim describes her average fan as a girl of 15 or 16 “who loves fashion, loves to be a girly girl, loves beauty, glam,” a sort of a younger version of herself.

To these girls, Kim has erected herself as a role model, a celebrity who is not “your stick-skinny typical model,” who’s all business, who doesn’t stumble out of clubs drunk or drugged out of her mind, who pays an almost excessive amount of attention to the way she styles and carries herself, who doesn’t use foul language.

In the end, it all comes back to what does she do to be famous. Kim best defines that by enumerating the things she doesn’t do.

“I mean, acting and singing aren’t the only ways to be talented. It’s a skill to get people to really like you for you, instead of a character written for you by somebody else,” she says.

“What is my talent? Well, a bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he’s talented, but he’s not famous. Do you know what I mean?” Kim asks.

The full interview is here.

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