History Of The Kardashians-'Documentary Of Kris Jenner'

While most concentrate on Kim and her
sisters Kourtney,Khloe,Kylie & Kendall, many haven't taken time to know
more about Kris Jenner who is the mother..The woman who
turned the Kardashians in to a household
name and built a million dollar empire..A
new article by the NewYork Times , gives an
insight in to this powerful mother/
manager..
Kristen Mary Jenner (formerly
Kardashian, nee Houghton) was born in
San Diego in 1955. Her father and her
mother divorced when she was young, and
her father left, leaving her with her mother
and sister and grandparents, who owned a
candle store.
She was 17 when she met Robert
Kardashian, a lawyer 11 years her
senior, at the Del Mar racetrack, she
in a sweeping wide-brimmed white
hat, he with a smile that showed how
completely smitten he was. He
pursued her, but she wanted to
discover the world. She became a
flight attendant for American
Airlines. She accepted his second
proposal, and they married when she
was 22. They moved to Beverly Hills,
where she occupied the social space
of the “Real Housewives” of the time.
They had children and spent their
weekends in Fila warm-up suits
playing tennis with their friends O.J.
Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson.
(After Nicole’s death, Robert would
be a member of O.J.’s “dream team”
defense, and Kris, married to Bruce
by then and pregnant with Kendall,
sat in the courtroom gallery in
protest and in hope of seeing justice
for her friend, wearing Nicole’s
hand-me-down maternity clothes.)
By the time she was 30, she had four
children, a mansion and a case of ennui
that felt terminal. She loved Robert and the
life he gave her, but she still felt young and
vital. She had an affair with a soccer
player, and Robert found out. The divorce
was ugly. Kris’s credit cards were canceled,
and she was alienated from her friends. She
was depressed and miserable, barely able
to function throughout the day.
Then one day, in 1990, before her divorce
to Robert was final, she went on a blind
date with Bruce Jenner: fun,
straightforward Bruce. They fell in love
immediately. They each had four children
and wanted even more. Bruce went to
Robert and asked him to finalize the
divorce so that he could marry Kris, telling
Robert that they didn’t want any of his
money. Robert agreed, and Kris and Bruce
were married a month after the divorce
papers were signed. (She and Robert were
on good terms when he died in 2003.)
But they were broke. Bruce had a
fledgling business doing
motivational speeches, and Kris
thought that if she took charge, he
could be successful. She put together
press kits and contacted speakers’
bureaus. “It was a mix of blood,
sweat and tears, enthusiasm,
determination and just never
sleeping and getting the word out
there,” she said. The phone began to
ring. On the other end of the line
were Coca-Cola and Visa.
Bruce became her first project. She set him
up to market his motivational speech,
“Finding the Champion Within,” to a wider
audience, and she also helped him create a
series of workout videos, sold via
infomercial, called “Super Fit With Bruce
and Kris Jenner.” In the infomercial, he
coaches Kris as she walks on a very short
treadmill. The success of Bruce’s speaking
business was just the first time that Kris
realized the pool of talent she had right
there in her own home, as well as their
potential for financial security.
In 2007, Kris marched into Ryan Seacrest’s
office to discuss an idea for a reality show
based on her family. She couldn’t help
thinking how her large brood — six
children, who, when the show made its
debut, ranged in age from 7 to 26 — could
have mass appeal. “Like, there’s the little
girls, and there’s the older girls, and then
there’s my son,” she told me. “Everybody
thinks that they could create a bunch of
drama in their lives, but it’s something that
I felt I didn’t even have to think about. It
would be natural.”
“The children’s father had passed away,”
said Jeff Jenkins, executive vice president of
development and programming at Bunim/
Murray and an executive producer of
“Keeping Up With the Kardashians” since
its inception. “I think she was a mom very
concerned that they had something to build
and grow and be secure.”