At home with Kim Kardashian West: mother, sister, wife, magnate.
Standing in the airy kitchen of her Calabasas home, Kim Kardashian West looks like she might be the twentysomething nanny or assistant of Kim Kardashian West. Without her signature chassis of bronzer, highlighter, contouring, and skintight Yeezy garb, the 37-year-old is almost indistinguishable from the handful of staff in the room, even to someone who has absorbed probably 300 GB of her selfies. In a long-sleeve cotton shirt and athletic pants, and with her hair in cornrows (more on that later), she is softer, daintier, in three dimensions than she is in two. I shouldn’t be surprised. If anything is true of Kim, it is her endless talent for optical illusions.
“Thank you for coming all the way out here,” she says politely. “I hope there wasn’t too much traffic on a Saturday.” She leads the way to a living room containing a movie screen and a cream linen couch that could comfortably seat 10. In a house full of kids (three now), the sofa is improbably spotless. But what’s more remarkable is how silent the place is. “Everyone says that!” she says, kicking off her black Balenciaga slides and curling up in a corner. “My kids just aren’t that loud. My daughter has a friend over; they’re in the playroom. But they’re outdoorsy. My dog’s even quiet; it’s the craziest thing.” She’s referring, of course, to Sushi, the Pomeranian whose yapping was a story line on last season’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The Sushi problem was solved by a session with the Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan, and they all lived happily ever after.
This story is from the April 2018 edition of ELLE.
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