- Kris Jenner said Kourtney Kardashian has tried to fire her a few times.
- Kim Kardashian also tried to fire her in the first season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
- Jenner said it was “the healthiest thing” for her not to think about Kim firing her.
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Kris Jenner said Kourtney Kardashian has tried several times a day to fire Kris as her “momager”.
Jenner made that revelation while talking to Kristina O’Neill, editor-in-chief of WSJ Magazine, when O’Neill brought up an episode from the first season of ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ when Kim Kardashian tried to fire Jenner from her position. as Kim’s manager.
“Has anyone tried to leave you since then?” O’Neill asked.
‘No. I mean, Kourtney probably three or four times and that’s just a day. One day, ”Jenner replied.
Kim said she wanted a ‘more professional’ manager in an early ‘KUWTK’ episode
In a scene from Season 1 of “KUWTK”, Kim said that while no one would probably take care of her and her career like Jenner, she wanted someone “with a whole staff of people.” She let Khloé Kardashian deliver the news to Jenner, who didn’t take it properly.
Ultimately, the mother-daughter duo continued their professional relationship, and Jenner remains Kim’s manager to this day.
Speaking of the experience, Jenner said it’s probably “the healthiest” for her not to think Kim would fire her.
“I always saw myself as someone she wanted and needed in her life – as her mother and as her manager, ”Jenner said to O’Neill during their conversation.
“It was just a really exciting time for me to be a part of that whole new beginning for us. So I would have been devastated,” she added.
Jenner has been a ‘momager’ to her famous kids for at least 14 years
“Momager” has become a familiar term for parents who also act as career managers for their children, with the success of Jenner, the Kardashian family and “KUWTK.”
Kris and Kendall in 2019.
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Since the reality show first debuted in 2007, several of Jenner’s kids have branched out and started their own businesses, with at least one of them (Kim) making a net worth of a billion dollars.
Jenner told O’Neill that she “ has never met anyone busier than Kim, ” who was admitted to the net worth club with three commas in April.
‘I check her schedule several times a day. I get a new one every night and a new one in the morning, ”Jenner said. And every time she’s blocked two or three hours in the afternoon, before her kids finish school, for her law degree. ‘
Jenner also shared the unique way she comes up with business ideas with Kylie Jenner, who runs a successful skincare and cosmetics business.
“I went for a long walk with Kylie a few days ago,” Jenner said. “And I think by the time we were done we came up with three new business ideas.”