Although Keeping Up With The Kardashians bid farewell to E! in June 2021, Kim Kardashian and fam aren’t even close to leaving people’s living rooms. On April 14, they’re formally moving over to Hulu with a new show, The Kardashians, and god only knows whether we’ll see Kim get (lavishly) married for a third time on TV. Or if we’ll (maybe, just maybe) someday see Pete Davidson get married for the first time on TV. Hey, never say never, but boy, that possibility wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card a few years go, especially not that of Kanye West.
West will make an appearance in the new series’ premiere, as Kim recently told Variety in a feature interview, but there’s another quote that’s drawing more attention, and in a negative way. That would be Kim’s advice (as a now-established business mogul, given that she’s got her successful SKIMS clothing line, in addition to reality TV) to other women. Here’s the relevant Variety interview passage:
“I have the best advice for women in business,” Kim says. “Get your f*cking ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.”
The Kardashians have been the subjects of harsh criticism over the years, but they’ve never been accused of not hustling. Kim bristles at the characterization that’s followed her for years — that she’s just famous for being famous. “Who gives a f*ck,” she says. “We focus on the positive. We work our asses off. If that’s what you think, then sorry. We just don’t have the energy for that. We don’t have to sing or dance or act; we get to live our lives — and hey, we made it. I don’t know what to tell you.”
That first paragraph sounds particularly harsh in spoken form, as tweet-excerpted here, including a “no toxic work environments” detail:
https://twitter.com/longLXVEwxlm/status/1501644802567413761
As one might imagine, these words aren’t going over too well on social media, given the family’s propensity for flaunting their wealth, which Kim did on a private island during a pandemic. Also, the definition of “work” certainly varies from person to person.
First up, beauty critic Jessica DeFino revealed how her previous gig for the Kardashian apps was fairly grueling and only offered low pay, along with being “reprimanded for freelancing on the side” to make ends meet.
https://twitter.com/jessicadefino_/status/1501631438348816392
And let’s just say that there’s no shortage of people firing back at Kim’s declaration. She was, of course, given a few legs up by her superstar lawyer father’s public profile (and that, uh, adult film did not hurt matters). So people let her hear about it.
People keep saying "Nobody wants to work these days" but I keep hearing "Nobody wants to be exploited these days"
— Shana LeeDiaz Walker (@ThatShanaGirl) March 9, 2022
They need to do a real reality show where she is dropped off in a small town with a studio apartment, no vehicle, no connections and no bank account. Let her take a bus to a minimum wage job then see if she can work hard enough to make it.
— Cinloou 🇨🇦 (@cinloou7) March 9, 2022
Yes Kim, people are tired of working 30+ hours a week to earn 1/920 of what you get by doing literally nothing and signing your name to a product someone else developed
— Myself mostly (@saneless) March 9, 2022
Kim K is one of the hardest working people out there but hard work is not a very good predictor of success in business. For every success story there are 100 other people working 2 jobs and living paycheck to paycheck.
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) March 9, 2022
I wish I was born rich so I could be self-made
— Brunch Lib (@opinion_hater) March 9, 2022
Women have not been working hard enough-
-says the rich woman born w/ a silver spoon who has:
maids,
nannies,
tutors,
Assistants,
chauffeurs, etc.Freeing her to WORK
w/o the burdens of UNPAID CARE WORK most women bear that men then use against us to pay us less.— Cassandra🌻☮️ (@Trojangoddess) March 9, 2022
Hey Kim Kardashian, every single person getting their selves up every day and working hard at a minimum wage job would like a word…
— Lisa the Dreamer (@LisaJoy9) March 9, 2022
People often forget Kim built her media career off of a roofing business she started with money she earned working as an apprentice roofer in high school
— Rand Paul Muad'Dib🔻 (@SensitiveWigi) March 9, 2022
Richsplaining: When a person who
hasn't experienced poverty gives
you patronizing advice on how to
get out of poverty. 🙄— Michelle Amor (@MichelleAmor) March 9, 2022
I love when people who were born to obscenely rich, highly networked and well connected parents pontificate about importance of work.
— WanderingNomad (@WanderingNoma14) March 9, 2022
As noted above, The Kardashians comes to Hulu on April 14.
(Via Variety)