Ep. - 1768 - JONATHAN VAN METER, AUTHOR OF CITIZEN KIM FIVE YEARS INSIDE KIM KARDASHIAN'S WORLD

Jonathan Van Meter is a contributing editor at Vogue and New York magazine and the founding editor-in-chief of Vibe, and he's one of the most trusted celebrity profilers in America. He has written about Oprah Winfrey, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Hillary Clinton and Liz Smith. For his new book, Citizen Kim, the first authorized biography of Kim Kardashian, he spent five years inside her world. That meant mornings in her kitchen, long days on SKIMS sets, and interviews with Kris, Kourtney, Khloé, her grandmother MJ and Kim's lifelong friends. I had an hour with Jonathan, and it flew by. His book covers the sex tape, the marriage to Kanye West and her business empire, so I used my time on the relationships that shaped her. We talk about her origin story: five generations of independent, shopkeeping women on her mother's side and an Armenian entrepreneurial streak on her father's. We also get into why success matters so much to her, what's at the heart of her friction with Kourtney, why a law career became her goal, and the surprising hand her father, Robert Kardashian, had in the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase. 

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