In Kim Kardashian’s latest interview with Angie Martinez, the reality star touched on a lot of topics and controversial moments from this year like the time she received backlash over her advice to women in business.
As we previously reported, Kim spoke with Variety earlier this year which also featured her sisters and mother. During that interview, the billionaire complained that “It seems like nobody wants to work these days,” while sharing advice for “women in business”: “Get your f***ing a** up and work.”
While recalling the moment which sent social media users into a frenzy, Kim claimed to Martinez that she was actually responding to applicants hoping to work for her who weren’t willing to put in the hard work to succeed: “The context in that was I had just been doing interviews for the last few weeks on people to work in my office. Everyone had all of these… ‘You know, well, I only want these hours, I want Fridays off, I don’t want to do this, I don’t want to do this, so I’ll only do this,’” she claimed while recalling what applicants allegedly said to her. Kim went on to say,
“I come from a time when we just grinded and everyone that I’m super close with that has built our businesses together,” she continued.
Looking back on her “workaholic mindset” that she began having from her younger days, Kim added, “We would just kind of do anything, any job. Get it all together, even if it wasn’t our job, we’d ask for something we just get it done,” she said. “Coming from like that workaholic mindset, I think I just came off of all those interviews being like, ‘Damn like no one really wants to work.’ Everyone had all these like provisions of what they wanted in their job.”
“I think people also took it like it was coming out of Covid,” she explained. “A lot of people that really wanted to work didn’t have the opportunities to work, and might not have had the opportunities that I have had and so I saw that and I was really mindful of that.”
“Sometimes people do really want to work their a** off and they’re not given those opportunities and they’re not in the position to do that even if they really want to, so I saw that and I’m super super sensitive to that and if I say something… I just wasn’t generalizing it for a bunch of people, it was just my specific experience,” she added.
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