Child of wealthy parents who parlayed sex tape into career has thoughts on bootstrapping.

[tenderfoot]

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[NJCher]

1. bleh

[BobTheSubgenius]

2. When she says "Get your ass up..." it means something different than you might think.

"Alternatively, get on your back."

I cannot stand this gaggle of miscreants that are famous for two reasons: Being famous, and being absolutely vile and flaunting it. Or was that three reasons?

[dalton99a]

3. +1. "Get your ass up and make it bigger"

[spooky3]

5. Getting all those plastic surgeries is HARD WORK!

I guess.

[WA-03 Democrat]

9. Looks like

someone put a huge bean bag in her dress. That must be painful to sit on indeed.

[BobTheSubgenius]

26. Slightly different direction than I was going, but Good One!

[spooky3]

4. She sounds like someone who has hired minimum wage workers

and expected them to be brilliant, well-trained, loyal, etc.

[Delphinus]

7. Yep.

And people actually listen to her?

[LuvLoogie]

11. Her message was to other women entrepreneurs, I think.

She built a pretty big company. She is genuinely talented.

[spooky3]

15. I see from your multiple posts that you like her. But

When someone makes a broad statement such as “nobody wants to work these days” I’m not impressed.

[FSogol]

28. Odds are that her comments were prompted by her cleaning lady or holistic trainer not showing up.

[LuvLoogie]

6. Kim K is a pretty good entrepreneur...

She's close to being a billionaire if she isn't already.

She promoted her early products with legwork, perseverance, and innovation. She is not rich by accident. She's smart and driven. That might make some slackers mad, but hey, Pam Anderson has a sex tape, too. So does Tonya Harding. So does Paris Hilton.

Kim K is a kind, hard working person. She anchors that whole family. Too bad Kanye couldn't keep it together. You gotta give her props for getting out of that vortex of crazy

I like her.

[Straw Man]

16. Pretty good?

No, she's "not rich by accident." She's rich by birth. Parlaying millions into billions isn't my idea of bootstrapping; it's being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple.

Smart and driven? Let's call it what it it: cunning and avaricious.

[Bettie]

17. She was born into wealth

But hey, you can be a fan all you want.

I think she has no idea what she's talking about. I know single moms who work their asses off and never get ahead. She always had nannies to take care of her kids, got famous for having a sex tape, and had the connections to do all the things she did and the security of knowing that even if she failed, she'd still be rich.

No risk. At. All.

[tenderfoot]

20. You must really love Ivanka too

based on what impresses about people.

How Elizabeth Holmes?

[LuvLoogie]

22. Okay

[Midnight Writer]

8. When I was a kid, I use to fantasize about what it would be like to be born into a rich family.

As an old man, I'm so thankful that I wasn't.

I think many become obsessed with money, jaded by power, and calloused by superiority complex.

Look at the products of our wealthy dynasties. The Kochs, the Trumps, the Hiltons, Tucker Carlson, Rush Limbaugh.

Governor Pritzker of Illinois is a welcome exception.

[LuvLoogie]

12. Her Dad told her she had to make her own way...

And she did. She's richer than he is I think.

[FakeNoose]

19. Robert Kardashian died in 2003, it was her mom Kris

... who had the brainchild of the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" reality TV show.
If it hadn't been for that show, they'd all be scraping now.

[LuvLoogie]

23. LOL it appears you've been keeping up with the Kardashians

more than I have.

[FakeNoose]

27. Actually I read Kris Kardashian's book many years ago

I've never watched the show. What a trainwreck that was!

[LuvLoogie]

30. Yeah, I never watched the show either.

I might have seen one episode. I haven't had a TV for over 10 years. Did direct TV for about two weeks then canceled. There is plenty of content via internet only.

Anyways, I used to dis Kim like everyone else. I looked closer and changed my mind.

[betsuni]

24. And Kim worked for Paris Hilton, the prototype of being famous for being famous/reality TV/

selling products.

[iemanja]

10. She's marketed herself well

You can't deny that. I don't go for that kind of celebrity, but she's managed to make a killing.

[LuvLoogie]

13. Her products are legit.

She's not Donald trump.

[NJCher]

18. her products are legit?

but she's not. She's had all kinds of plastic surgery to make herself into something that's an advertiser's ideal. I'll take a real person any day, not someone who feels the need to make herself into something she's not.

[tenderfoot]

21. What products? Herself?

[Mr.Bill]

14. If hard work brought wealth,

agricultural workers would own the planet.

[demmiblue]

29. +1

[A HERETIC I AM]

31. Yup. I put this up on another thread on the same subject earlier today;

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216463740#post43

[LuvLoogie]

25. LOL. Triggered by Kim K... (one of her product lines)

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3165388/take-haters-kim-kardashians-skims-just-doubled-value-us32

Kim Kardashian’s Skims brand has now surpassed rival shapewear company Spanx to be valued at an impressive US$3.2 billion – so what prompted the sudden bump?

From the Skims x Fendi line that sold out in 60 seconds, to a range made exclusively for Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics, Skims has gone from strength to strength.

Skims has been praised for offering a wider range of sizes than other shapewear brands