While speaking at the TIME100 Summit on Tuesday, the reality star, 42, got candid about talked about her future in criminal justice reform.
Although Kim has spent most of her career in front of the cameras, she’s said she would actually be ok with putting that aside to be an attorney.
“I joke with my mom, who’s my manager, I say, ‘Kim K. is retiring, and I’m just going to be an attorney. So you can go help my siblings [and] you can still have a job,’” she said at the summit. The Skims mogul added that she could “absolutely” see herself switching things up.
“I would be just as happy being an attorney full-time and doing that. The journey just really opened up my eyes to so much,” she explained. “It gets overwhelming because there’s so much to be done. … I would totally spend more time doing that — cameras, no cameras.”
More On Kim Kardashian’s Journey Becoming An Attorney
Kim first revealed her plans to become a lawyer back in 2019 in an attempt to follow in her late father’s footsteps. Her father, Robert Kardashian, was a famed attorney who was a part of O.J. Simpson’s defense team. However, while trying to pay tribute to her late dad, Kardashian West’s own interest in the law grew from her work with CNN commentator and criminal justice reform advocate Van Jones on his efforts to “shrink the incarceration industry.”
With Kardashian’a great team and great connections to the White House, she was able to advocate for Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense. After her meeting with President Donald Trump, Johnson was granted clemency.
Kardashian previously revealed that she had registered with the California State Bar in 2018, and for the next four years, she would need to put in a minimum of 18 hours a week of work and take monthly test. The reality-TV star also mentioned that she was prepping for her first-year law exam, (the baby bar,) and on Dec. 13, 2021, Kardashian revealed that she actually passed.
What’s Next For Kim Kardashian?
Up next, the beauty mogul is set to take the bar exam in the summer of 2024, her mentor human rights attorney Jessica Jackson confirmed in an interview with Law&Crime Network back in December 2022.
“Now I will tell you, that is a much, much harder path because you’re essentially not just working on cases the whole time but you don’t have professors. You’re having to learn all of the legal doctrine yourself,” Jackson explained.
Now, if everything goes according to plan and Kardashian passes the bar exam, she’ll be on her way to becoming a lawyer just like her late father, Robert Kardashian Sr.
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