Kim Kardashian revealed she dropped “Kimberly” earlier than her actuality TV rise and opened up about failing the bar examination whereas selling her new MasterClass.

Kim Kardashian shortened her identify and revealed a private tutorial setback whereas reflecting on her path from actuality TV breakout to aspiring lawyer.

During a latest interview with Time, the 45-year-old entrepreneur and SKIMS founder defined that she ditched “Kimberly” simply earlier than Keeping Up with the Kardashians launched in 2007.

“I used to always go by Kimberly, until we signed on to do the reality show. And when I looked at my chyron, Kimberly Kardashian, I said, ‘I think that’s so long for people to say.’ And like, ‘Let’s just shorten it to Kim,’” she mentioned.

The identify swap got here proper because the Kardashian household started filming what would change into a 20-season popular culture juggernaut. The unique sequence wrapped in 2021, and the household now stars in The Kardashians on Hulu.

Kardashian additionally mirrored on how her late father, Robert Kardashian, who died in 2003 at age 59, all the time known as her by her full identify.

“And it’s so weird, because all my friends from high school and growing up, and my dad, everyone calls me Kimberly,” she mentioned.

Elsewhere within the interview, Kardashian addressed her determination to publicly share that she failed her first try on the bar examination. She’s been finding out regulation since 2019 and lately accomplished her authorized training program.

“You get the results on a Friday, and I knew Sunday morning they were going to be live on the Internet. So, I wanted to mention it first and let people know that it didn’t go my way,” she mentioned. “So, instantly I was like, ‘OK, let’s do this, I know what I’ve got to do.’ This really sucks because I put so much time into it, but I know what I can do better. I’m pretty good at taking a failure and turning it into something, and I just don’t have the time to dwell.”

Kardashian is at the moment selling her debut MasterClass, The New Rules of Business: The Ten Kimmandments with Kim Kardashian, which is now out there on the MasterClass platform.

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