As I previewed yesterday, Kim Kardashian gave her “first TV interview” after Bruce Jenner’s ABC interview. The only thing? Kim filmed this interview with Today and Mat Lauer last Friday, during the day, before Bruce’s interview. So… just keep that in mind. She hadn’t seen Bruce’s interview, but from the way Kim talks about it, I feel like Bruce kept her completely in the loop about what he said to Diane Sawyer. Kim talks about how she 100% accepts and loves Bruce. She makes some allusions to how some members of the family need some more time to process Bruce’s transition, but says that the whole family is standing behind him and supporting him. She even says that they’ve been talking to GLAAD about the language to use to respectfully discuss Bruce’s transition, which is great to hear.
You know what? I know Kim isn’t anyone’s favorite celebrity or reality star or whatever, but I don’t have any shade for how she’s handling this. I take Bruce’s story about Kim at face value, that she was surprised into silence for a while, but she and Kanye talked about it and Kanye made her understand what Bruce has been going through his whole life. Bruce also said that since Kanye made her understand, Kim has been the most supportive of all the girls. I believe it. And for that, we should praise her. She’s making a rare step to think of and care about someone else and offer very real emotional support to the transgender parent who raised her for years and years. That’s how it should be, but that’s not how it is for many transgender people.
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i can’t tolerate KK for many reasons but this is something commendable and that’s all I have to say. That Bruce himself speaks so highly of how supportive she’s been and receptive she’s been to him and for him to talk to tells me everything about how she’s doing something right for someone else. No shade from me today at all. Just glad to see a daughter support her father through a confusing and difficult time.
I’m glad to hear that Kim is supporting her step-dad. and sending supportive words of comfort his way.
I am no fan of Kim, but I thought a lot more of her after Bruce’s interview. She had a hard time (and really, who wouldn’t) but she came around and she does sound like she’s been the most supportive. Good for Kim on this one.
ITA. I sometimes think that whole family is a waste of oxygen, but I can’t fault her for how she’s responded to this. She does come off as sincere, and supportive so I’ll also say good on Kim.
I have a problem with her giving an interview, and being the spokesperson for the family by giving the first interview. It just cheapens his interview so much for me, and makes it seem like yet another personal thing being used by these horrible people to make sure they stay relevant. It’s way too contrived.
She handled it really well. Respectful and loving. Good for her.
Considering many average people from good families can’t come to grips with this type of thing this is good on her and the rest of the family. It’s more than just changing your pronouns. And it’s not the easiest thing for either side.
I may be in the minority, but I think Kim is a caring and loving person … at least where her family is concerned. Not only because of the Bruce issue, but I remember on one of the few KUWTK episodes I have ever seen, Kris was getting a facelift prior to Kim’s wedding to KH and Kim stayed with her mom and took care of her. The way she spoke to her mom and took care of her was very sweet and I remember thinking then that Kim is probably a lot nicer than most people giver her credit for.
Is she Mother Theresa? No. But I do think she is probably a good sister, daughter, wife and mother.
I think Rob would disagree.
If you buy that you’re drinking the koolaid. There have been rumblings for a few years the K’s would lose their tv shows if there wasn’t a shake up. Rob has salary from E! now. So, he might not disagree.
I also heard the Kartrashians are not as close as they present themselves as a family. All a facade
I agree, I think that, yes, the Kardashian/Jenner clan are a bunch of fame hungry monsters BUT they are incredibly close and supportive of each other. I think that people really love to hate them for everything but I don’t find them that offensive.
Are they really that close? Kim said that just a few years ago her and Khloe never spoke. It’s only once they started filming for their show that they built a relationship. This family is all smoke and mirrors. I am glad they are showing public support for Bruce, it is a good thing. However, I don’t know how genuine they really are.
I tend to agree. I think back when Mason was like 2 years old and I watched the mess of a tv show, he knew all of his aunts and would go to them. You can’t really get a toddler to fake stuff like affection for his aunts you know?
I have mentioned once on here a long time ago that I think it says a lot about Kim that she still remains friends with people she’s known for decades aka it legitimately seems like she as actual honest to goodness friends (and not just people she keeps around for attention).
I’m usually skiddish about entering these threads. They’re possibly the worst here as far as demonstrating the worst in humanity.
Kim was used from the start for Kris. A relationship between an abusive parent and exploited child is a hard one to mend.
All the Kanye an Kris nonsense aside she does seem like a decent person that does care. She’s just too often not the one making the proper calls and surrounded by the worst influences.
That she and the rest have stood behind Bruce and not made it all about them speaks volumes imo.
Same here Sherry.
It’s funny how when it’s a positive story about Kim there’s barely any comments. But if it’s a negative headline there will be hundreds of comments here to knock her down lol
There’s an opportunity here for people to praise her and show support for the trans community and people won’t take it. That’s sad and petty
Yes, we have to give credit where it’s due. She genuinely loves and cares about him. I chose not to give an opinion about Bruce’s decision, but I know this must have been very hard for him. Kudos to Kim and Kanye.
Its great that she has been able to process this , personally think the kids have known for a long time plus their real focus is image. Lets not forget these same people have been terrible with their own brothers mental health struggles because theres no pay off for them being compassionate in that situation. Lets also not act like the families of transgendered parents who are unable to process such a major life change are shamelessly villainous souls. This is a major thing to come to terms, there should be no pressure on the families either as they work through it.
Agreed.
Yeah when Rob decides to do an interview with Diane, I am sure Kim will be super supportive of her brother then. Did anyone see the tweet Burt (Bruce’s oldest son) posted? He said he wants so badly to call out SOME people who are just NOW acting supportive of Bruce when all along they have been everything BUT supportive. Who could that be?
I would guess one of the other girls, or Kris. Bruce himself called Kim the most supportive one, and I didn’t get the impression he was being insincere about that.
I don’t know. Kim may be the “most supportive” out of a group of completely non-supportive people. Remember Bruce wasn’t even at Kim and Kanye’s engagement. Who knows if he was even invited. Khloe didn’t even tell Bruce she was getting married to Lamar. Bruce said on a recent episode that he wants to see North more often and Kim replied with “why?”. That was her answer. Bruce is always saying how no one ever comes to visit him. Now, since he’s getting so much attention and public support, Kim was pap’d in front of Bruce’s Malibu home the day after the interview aired. Come on now.
@word, if that’s true then she’s even more disgusting than I thought
Kudos to her, ABC, NBC, and Bruce. I love that the complexities and nuances are being shown, especially in terms of support. It doesn’t mean full understanding and empathy. It just means being open and trying to get to that point; and, acknowledging that you’re on the journey with that individual.
I understood why Khloe was upset though. For her, Bruce has been the most consistent male presence in her life and it must feel like another death/loss on a deep level.
I’m hoping this is genuine I really do. So taking this as face value this is the most maturity I’ve seen out of Kim ever. Maybe she can apply some of this maturity in her dealings with Rob
I feel the same as you do.
She Came across well, nails on a chalkboard Voice notwithstanding
Yup. She tiptoes riiiight up to the edge of baby talk.
Nasal flat affect baby Talk
Of course she’d say something positive, can you imagine if she didn’t?
I am sure she genuinely supports him, but at the same time, what a wonderful opportunity for her to be interviewed. America supports Bruce, but it is necessary to hear from the K family beyond their initial show of support? I hate the way they can make anything be about them.
Exactly.
I agree. If they really needed any input, they could have released a public statement stating their support. But instead Kim needs to give an interview? It all seems very self-serving when she could have been privately supportive of Bruce during this time. But anything for publicity, right? She’s disgusting!
I may be more inclined to believe her sincerity if she didn’t do this interview. She’s using her support for Bruce to rehab her image.
This. True support isn’t using the opportunity to get yet another interview and rehab the image as the trashy one. Real families don’t need to give interviews to support each other, or post personal messages constantly to show their love and support (not just on this issue – on every issue). They are just a manufactured product, doing what they are told to do to stay relevant.
A couple days ago, a friend asked me why I thought Bruce would choose to tell Kim first. I said I thought it was because, for better or worse, she understands what it’s like to have the public/the media drag you across the coals for the choices you’ve made.
No it’s because she caught him wearing a dress…so she was the first one he kind of HAD to tell. I’m sure the first thing Kim did was run and tell her mom.
He didn’t tell Kim first. He told Brandon, his son, first, who he says has a beautiful soul. And I think he told his other older children next. Then he moved on to his Kardashian clan and his two younger children. He said out of the girls, even though Kim had issues at first, that changed when Kanye talked to her, and she became the most accepting out of the girls. He never said he told her first.
My bad. I thought I had read that, of the 3 Kardashian sisters, he told Kim first.
My mistake, Bruce didn’t say he told her first, he called Kim the most supportive of the sisters. That’s what my friend and I were discussing.
It’s good to see her supporting, accepting, respecting, and loving Bruce. Sometimes she actually seems like a caring person. I’m glad that Bruces family is standing beside him through this.
They would all look like assholes if they didn’t support him. This family is all about PUBLIC IMAGE. None of us know the real workings of this family, nor do we know what is real and what is fake. One thing I know is that this family is more fake than real. I do wonder why the Kardashians weren’t interviewed by Diane, why only Bruce’s older kids?
The Kardashians aren’t his kids and they probably wanted to wait to hear how the public reacted first since they really are all about their image.
I am not taking anything they do at face value. I think they are all in the loop, and that Kim was trotted out to film an interview because they could piggyback it to their show. Today seems to be the People of TV — PR mouthpiece.
Good for her.it’s hard but she understood.
On a superficial note she used to be gorgeous! She completely ruined her exotic beauty with plastic surgery.Its sad to look at her old face.
Kim and Kourtney never looked at Bruce as a father. They were too tied to their father and the oldest girls. Kim’s father died when she was married to that first guy. She was 22. She had had her father her whole childhood, and who then had half custody, into adulthood and even lived with him for a period. She was beyond attached to her own father. In Kris’ book, in the early years of their marriage, she was getting Bruce’s career back on track and he traveled all the time, and her traveling with him a lot. Robert Kardashian was very present in his daughters’ lives in raising them after the divorce, every bit as much as Kris.
In the first few years of the show I remember Bruce being hurt by the girls because he stated he felt he never got the respect by them as a father figure when he had been there for them. There were quite a few issues regarding that in the way they treated him. Khloe, the youngest, was more attached to Bruce as a father type of figure (always called him Bruce, though) as the years went on because she was the youngest when he came into the family and the youngest when her dad died.
So while I think this is terribly hard for all concerned, Kim’s reaction and acceptance of her stepfather can’t begin to be compared to Kylie’s and Kendall’s difficulty with their father changing.
+ 1000. You nailed it all. The girls and Rob have never regarded Bruce as a father or even respected him for that matter. Their father was and still is everything to them. Which is why I’m baffled by the whole their “my dad”, “my hero” thing because it’s not true. I think they’re just following in script. I know their reality show is scripted and mostly fake but when you are on camera this much some bits of truth is bound to come out. And the truth is they’ve never been that close Bruce except for Khloe. This family is fake, I take everything they do and say with a grain of salt.
Yay!
She was one of the few celebs to speak out respectfully on Twitter regarding Leelah Acorn’s suicide, so this doesnt surprise me. KK has a surprisingly decent handle on LGBT issues.
I think the family supports Bruce but I also think they are following a script to say all the right things because they/PMK are very media savvy and understands that they could lose it all if people even think they are intolerant of Bruce/LGBT community in the slightest way. Which is why they are laying it down thick with the whole “hero” narrative. Case in point, Recluse Rob coming out of hiding to say that Bruce is his role model, that is not true if you believe all the episodes of their show where Rob says he had no one to look up to since his father died(which I found odd at the time considering Bruce has been in his life since he was a toddler until I learned that Bruce has never been a true parent to ANY of his kids). Rob has never been close to Bruce and admitted it in the past but now Bruce has always been his role model. I think it’s genuine support but also making sure they don’t offend anyone to keep the gravy train going.
He wasn’t a true parent to the rest of them. But Bruce was a true parent to Kylie and Kendall. He raised them. When they came along, he for all intents and purposes retired from the road and raised them because Kris wanted her career. Even Brody, who thinks he was a terrible dad to him, thinks he has been an amazing father to Kylie and Kendall.
I agree with you about the script. Unlike most on here, I think Kris knew plenty, and he has agreed to not embarrass her and mute that down.
How can I feel sorry for Kris, when something this huge, this devastating, she wants filmed on the last day of the season, him sitting down and telling them? That is messed up. Kris is using this as a huge cliffhanger for the last show of the season, him telling the family? That’s who Kris Jenner is, making a buck off of anything and publicity for it, all hype.
No sympathy for Kris. She’s been busy building her empire for years now, to the point of wanting Kylie and Kendall to work from 15, 16 on, and was all for them leaving school. Bruce was just the chump she bossed around, dolling out money to like a kid, and giving him some tiny portion of the garage because she didn’t want it junked up with his hobbies.
I do really feel for Kendall, Kylie, and Khloe. I think this change affects them deeply to the core and will take time.
This makes me really respect Kim. I wouldn’t have ascribed this kind of understanding to her (and I actually don’t dislike her, I’ve always thought she was beautiful, if vapid) and it just goes to show. It really, really humanizes her and I really respect her bond with Bruce.
They did a great job media training her for this.
I think it’s genuine-whether it’s because she truly wants Bruce to be happy or she’s obsessed with her own image, who can say. Regardless, I’m glad Bruce feels supported by her and Kanye.
I think it’s important to be respectful of his family’s feelings too-this is a huge, life changing adjustment for his kids. There’s a difference between completely not supporting someone who is transgender and needing time to adjust. I get the feeling there’s some bad blood between the Jenner kids and the Kardashians, and after Linda Thompson admitted Bruce completely fell out of their lives after marrying Kris, I can understand how there’s probably a lot of hurt there.
Like it or not she’s a STAR.
I’m sure that they were all in denial at first…thinking or hoping that maybe this situation with Bruce will just go away. When reality hit though, they all really had no choice but to come out as totally supportive or look like dbags for not. Interesting that Kanye was Kim’s catalyst for understanding. Pretty sure he is keeping his own secrets.
Im just dissapointed Kim has to insert herself into every topic. It’s also sad that her opinion seems to affect so many young women. I am not a hater but I do have concerns for our young people of today of what Kim and the Ks are really doing to the moral fibre of our society and how the media is so attached to every moment.
There are so many more family members not attached to the Ks that could speak just as openly also and was pleased to see Bruce first wife Christie do that.Linda Thompson also did which helped bring much of this back to reality and real rather then continue with the circus that is about to revolve around the Ks and sadly Bruce. It’s awesome Bruce came out for the transgender community but what will follow may also take away from it and that is sad and perpetuated by the Ks you know it and I know it that it will be all about them and there transition into understanding Bruce and that is sad that it always gets twisted to revolve around the Ks
No shade from me either. And I do think it’s genuine. I would even go as far as to say that this sort of humanizes her in a way.
If Rob truly sees Bruce as a role model, then why is Rob still hiding from the public? We know he has gained weight, that is not a secret, so why hide? Why isn’t he out there living his life the way Bruce is going to live his? Aren’t you supposed to emulate your role model? I don’t know what is genuine and what is not but something just isn’t making sense.
LOL what is going on here? Bruce announces HE’S transitioning into a woman and somehow all anyone wants to talk about is how great Kim is. LOL seriously this is Bruce’s moment ! This is exactly what Kim wanted…all the attention and everyone saying how wonderful SHE is. The true question is who is really there for Bruce when the cameras aren’t around?
She made sure that the cameras caught her going to visit Bruce after the announcement. It seems clear that she never visited him before, based on Bruce’s own words that no one ever came to see him. But now that she can use this situation to show how great she is, she hustles right over there.
This. Thank you!!!
+1000000000000
I can’t stand the ‘celebrity’ Kim is but this is her human side I think. Its funny, Kanye …we all have such a defined perspective of him. But he was the right man for the job when it came to opening the eyes of a woman who wants a loving relationship with her parent. Both being in the spotlight, and thusly having with star power to shed positive light on a serious problem in our culture. I’ve always said Kim K is famous for nothing. But very soon we may be thanking her family for ushering in a new conversation in American culture.
Um, don’t drink any more of the Kool-aid. Kim is nothing but an opportunist. She never saw Bruce as her “Dad” nor did she ever respect him. This is all self-serving publicity for their failing show. I bet $10 it will be a storyline in the next season.
The situation may be so unusual that Kim can’t fall back on her default “make up stories and lie, lie, lie” approach. So what she says has an unusual ring of truth. Except for the father figure/role model stuff, which contradicts everything I’ve seen on bits from the show. Rob never saw him as a dad or role model (that was a whole plotline), neither did the K girls. Even the Jenner girls talk about Khloe as their real parental figure, since Bruce and Kris used her as their live-in nanny when Khloe was quite young. They even taught Khloe to drive at 13 or 14 so she could take the younger kids to the hospital or doctor if needed in an emergency, which means there was no adult with them a lot of the time. I know Khloe also prepared their food.
But if Bruce says Kim is supportive, then she is. I don’t think he would outright lie about that. Odd that she claims Kanye helped her understand, though. Hard to know if that’s true or another one of her stories concocted with PR help, but that’s what she told Bruce.
I’m kind of surprised by all of them, tbh. We hold them up as the standard of ‘fame—‘, but I was really amazed and had to give all due respect that the entire family kept their mouths shut until Bruce decided to speak out. Even if it’s been an “open secret”, I was surprised by how private they all kept it until Bruce was ready.
I think it’s interesting how people take up for Rob like he’s this poor emotionally damaged guy dealing with mental health issues, all because of these terrible, pushy, fame-whore females who want to just use him for their own interests. Does nobody else see the inherent sexism in that view, especially when we don’t really know what goes on with Rob at all? Because here’s what I know personally about Rob: he’s a spoilt entitled brat who is too busy hanging out with porn stars & mooching off the women in his family (who actually work!) for $ for drugs to stay in any of the drug and mental health programs his family repeatedly tries to get him to go to (& that they willing to pay for). Kim Richards gets so much hate, but at least she has to show up for filming to get her money. Rob doesn’t even even have to do that!