Kim Kardashian is studying the law, plans to take the bar exam in 2022
Kim Kardashian got her first solo American Vogue cover – she and Kanye covered Vogue together in 2014, and obviously Kim has covered foreign editions of Vogue solo many times before. But this is her first solo cover for the American edition. That alone was reason enough for “Kim Kardashian” to trend on Twitter for much of Wednesday. But she was also trending because of what she revealed in the interview: she’s studying to become a lawyer. She’s wants to be able to take the bar exam in 2022. She is not required to attend law school, but she is required to study with and apprentice with lawyers, so that’s what she’s doing. It’s like home-school law school. You can read the full Vogue piece here. Some highlights:
Her goal of taking the bar exam in 2022: “I had to think long and hard about this,” she says. What inspired her to embark on something so overwhelmingly difficult and time-consuming was the combination of “seeing a really good result” with Alice Marie Johnson and feeling out of her depth. “The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency and I’m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people and I just sat there, like, Oh, sh-t. I need to know more. I would say what I had to say, about the human side and why this is so unfair. But I had attorneys with me who could back that up with all the facts of the case. It’s never one person who gets things done; it’s always a collective of people, and I’ve always known my role, but I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society. I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more.”
Her first year of law school/study: “First year of law school, you have to cover three subjects: criminal law, torts, and contracts. To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100. Super easy for me. The reading is what really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds.” Sometime this summer, Kim will take what is known as the “baby bar” administered by the state; if she passes, she will be given the OK to continue for three more years of study.
Does she care that people think she’s vapid & shallow? “I don’t pay attention to that anymore. I love to be put in a situation where I can have a conversation with someone who might not be inclined to think much of me, because I can guarantee they will have a different opinion and understand what’s important to me after they’ve met me…. I made a decision to go to the White House when everyone was telling me, ‘Don’t go, your career will be over; you can’t step foot in there.’ And I was like, ‘It’s my reputation over someone’s life?’ Weigh that out. People talk sh-t about me all day long. It will just be another story about me versus someone getting their life back.”
Kim says Kanye has now accepted his bipolar diagnosis. “I think we’re in a pretty good place with it now,” she says and adds that Kanye has a newfound sense of purpose—to show that you can live a normal life with mental illness. “It is an emotional process, for sure. Right now everything is really calm. But we can definitely feel episodes coming, and we know how to handle them. For him, being on medication is not really an option, because it just changes who he is. Traveling a lot does set it off, so he doesn’t travel as much as he used to. But honestly, I never want to speak for him, because I am not in his mind. But I think some of the hurtful things that I read online . . . . What is she doing? She’s not stopping him. . . . Like it’s my fault if he does or says something that they don’t agree with? That’s my husband. I share every opinion that I have and let him know when I think something’s wrong. Or if it comes to him being in the middle of a bipolar episode, I’ll do everything to be supportive and help to calm the situation.”
She claims Kanye isn’t really a MAGA Deplorable: “He doesn’t represent either side. But he doesn’t want to be told what he should be. It can be confusing. I get it. The one thing that I respect so much is that he is who he is, no matter what anyone tries to tell him to do. I can be sitting there crying: OH, MY GOD! TAKE OFF THE RED HAT! Because he really is the sweetest person with the biggest heart. I stopped caring, though. Because I used to care so much. I was making it such an issue in our relationship. And in my life. It gave me so much anxiety.”
I’ll confess something: I didn’t read the tweets about Kim yesterday because I didn’t want the negativity to cloud how I covered this interview. I’m positive that people spent hours mocking her and belittling her and all of that. I can do that all day too, I can talk sh-t about her superficiality, her catface, her bad f–king clothes. But I won’t mock her for committing herself to getting an education or going back to school (of sorts) in her 30s. I’m genuinely impressed with what she’s doing. And she’s right about this too – people are going to talk sh-t about her no matter what. Why not genuinely work towards self-improvement? And spare me the educational gatekeeping or slutshaming of Kim Kardashian – yes, she’s famous for a sex tape and a reality show. AND? Why can’t she be a lawyer too?
I remember as a little girl flipping through my mom’s subscription each month and dreaming of one day gracing the cover of this iconic magazine. Thank you to the incredible Anna Wintour for your support as always, it means the world to me. pic.twitter.com/HNE0sSYUho
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) April 10, 2019
Special thank you to my husband Kanye for speaking into existence that one day I would grace the cover of Vogue when everyone told me to be “more realistic.” #dreamsdocometrue #speakitintoexistence #voguemagazine pic.twitter.com/63TfbUXWfN
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) April 10, 2019
Photos courtesy of Vogue.
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