I’ll catch clips of Keeping Up With The Kardashian while I’m watching E!, and I’ll wonder if I should watch it, in order to gain some insight into this family. Then I realize that they give constant interviews, post the minutiae of their lives on social media, and that they’re just as superficial as they seem. It would be a waste of my time, is what I’m saying. Plus the plot points of KUWTK always end up getting reported anyway. Hence this story where Kris Jenner bemoans her family’s financial state before she took over as momager and ended up making them into a brand.

On KUWTK, Kris admitted that Bruce Jenner was “broke” when she first started dating him, because he had squandered millions on high end man toys and real estate. Kris stepped in and put a stop to all that, lest she be unable to afford Louboutins. This issue came up when Kris tried to counsel Kourtney and Scott about Scott’s purchase of a helicopter to keep in their backyard. Kris was against it while Bruce told Scott he was “proud” of him for taking the initiative to go helicopter shopping. Oh and Kris also told a tidbit about having sex with Bruce in his private plane while no one else was there to fly it. Of course they did that.

During the episode, viewers saw the Momager criticize daughter Kourtney Kardashian for letting her baby daddy, Scott Disick, decide whether he wanted to own a helicopter and park it in their backyard. But Kourtney said she didn’t want to be like Kris, who drove Bruce away with her controlling ways.

Kris then told E!’s cameras that there was a reason she took the relationship reins: “When Bruce and I started dating, he had a lot of toys.

“He had jet skis and motorboats and snowmobiles and a house on Lake Tahoe but the truth is, we owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. We didn’t have any money.”

In a reference to Kendall Jenner, her first daughter with Bruce, Kris added, “We had four kids to take care of and another one on the way.”

She told Kourtney, “The fact that I was the one who went and cleaned up the mess, I should have gotten a medal for that. I had to be the practical one and get rid of some of these crazy expenses.”

Kris, 58, pointed out how expensive it would be to maintain a helicopter and said Disick’s idea was “irresponsible and financially not smart.”

However, Kourtney told the cameras she didn’t want to kill his joy.

Later, Disick decided Bruce, 64, would be his helicopter pilot and even gave him a uniform for the job.

Bruce recalled owning his own plane and Kris revealed they gave the mile high club a whole new spin: “He had sex with me in the back of the plane,” while no one was flying it!

Kris told Bruce, “Your reflexes might not be the same. This is a dangerous job.”

After Kris grilled Kourtney again about why she was letting Disick get the helicopter, her daughter declared, “I’m not being bossy like you.”

“My mom has been telling Bruce what to do for years and years,” she told the cameras. “It makes Bruce resentful so I definitely don’t want to be in that situation.”

Ultimately, Disick realized the helicopter was going to take up half the backyard and could be dangerous for their two kids.

Later, he decided to put a big slide in the backyard for them and was glad he’d made the decision on his own.

[From Radar Online]

There’s more on Radar Online if you’re interested, including a scene where Kris apologizes to Bruce for controlling him for decades and Bruce accepts her apology. She’s not entirely sorry, though, saying “I still feel I made the right choices but had the wrong approach.”

Kourtney needs to crack down on Scott a little bit. It’s not an either/or situation where Kourtney is exactly like Lucifer’s homegirl or she’s like “whatever, get a fleet of helicopters, go wild honey.” She could negotiate with Scott on high end purchases, that’s what couples do. Maybe that whole plot point was scripted and Scott never intended to get a helicopter, but I doubt it. That sounds just like him.

So Kris thinks she should have earned a medal for turning the family’s money situation around. She does have a head for business and finances, I can definitely give her that. She didn’t get a medal, she got tens of millions of dollars and her family became famous because of her hustle. That’s the prize she’s been chasing and I don’t think she realizes she’s already earned it.

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