Kim Kardashian has recently dropped major revelation about her original name.
The All’s Fair actress opened up about last-minute name switch before she entered the family’s reality TV show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, back in 2007.
“I used to always go by Kimberly, until we signed on to do the reality show,” said the 45-year-old in a new interview with Time.
Elaborating on why she made the decision, Kim saw her name, Kimberly Kardashian and realised that it was too long.
“I said, ‘I think that’s so long for people to say.” And like, “Let’s just shorten it to Kim,’” mentioned the American Horror Story actress.
Kim recalled that all her high school friends and dad would call her “Kimberly” so it was “weird” to change my name.
However, the SKIMS founder gave credit to her sisters for pitching the show to promote their Los Angeles clothing store, DASH.
“The whole reason we wanted to start our show was to bring attention to our DASH store, at least that’s how I was able to get my sisters to sign on,” pointed out Kim.
Elsewhere in the interview, the reality star revealed whether she was “the mastermind” behind the Kardashian empire.
“I was the one that convinced everyone for sure. I really wanted it,” she told the outlet.
Kim added, “I really wanted to do a reality show since the day MTV’s The Real World came out and I watched it with my best friend.”
