Kate Moss covers the March 2012 issue of W Magazine, and these are some selected images from the cover shoot – you can see the full slideshow here at W. She got TWO covers actually, although I have only three words for this Steven Klein shoot: What. The. Frick. In God’s name, WHY? While I’ve never been all-about-Kate, I think she’s rock-and-roll and I think she’s one hell of a model. As in, she’s intriguing and interesting to look at, and she’s incredibly photogenic. This photo shoot is filled with a strange blend of religious and sacrilegious imagery, birds, spiders and corpse styling, and it’s maybe the worst Kate has ever looked, right? Yes, the images are “striking”. The last images of Lindsay Lohan are “striking” as well, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to slap the “supermodel” label on a walking corpse.

Of course, W Magazine didn’t get an interview with Moss. Instead, W got Will Self to write this oddly sycophantic piece about Kate and how she’s aging yet not-aging. You can read it here – I’m not going to bother excerpting it. I will, however, put up some quotes from angry Christians who are royally pissed off with this photo shoot:

While the Kate Moss-W Magazine photos are a hit with aspiring fashionistas, they have caused outrage among conservative groups, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal.

“Clearly W magazine needs to generate some controversy to pretend it matters, so it’s turned to today’s standby and decided to bash Christianity,” Dan Gainor of the Culture and Media Institute exclusively told RadarOnline.com.

“Everything W has done here, from making the issue the ‘Fashion Bible’ to having Moss hold a crucifix provocatively between her legs, is designed to provoke controversy and mock religion. We get it, hating Christians is certainly in fashion.

“Interestingly, W tried to create twin covers showing a good and a bad Kate Moss. Given how twisted W is for mocking religion, they should have stuck to just one cover — the bad — to reflect the magazine itself. While Moss can be faulted for appearing in this spread, it’s the responsibility of the magazine’s editors not to try to profit by denigrating faith. Instead of high-brow fashion, readers get low-brow bigotry,” he concluded.

[From Radar]

You know how dumb I am? I didn’t even get the whole “fashion bible” reference until that Radar thing. Anyway, even though I’m not going to get all up in arms over the religious stuff in the shoot, I do understand why these photos have upset the devout. Mostly the pics just upset me aesthetically, though. They made her look like crap!

Photos courtesy of W Magazine’s slideshow.

I really shouldn’t end the day on such a stupid story, but it’s my own fault for forgetting about it early this morning. E! News got their hands on a photo you just need to see for yourself – go look at it and come back. LeAnn Rimes and Kim Kardashian walking down the street together, looking chummy. What were they discussing? How both of them are a size 2? Hahahahaa. LeAnn is probably a 00. And Kim – bless her heart – routinely rounds down from a “12” to a “2”. But no, they were talking about diets or dress sizes. They were talking about Jesus. For real.

Kim Kardashian and LeAnn Rimes both love the same man: Jesus Christ!

On Sunday, the duo attended Life Change Community Church service in Agoura Hills, Calif.

Kardashian, 31, and Rimes, 29, are also both fans of Brad Johnson, the church’s esteemed pastor…

But the E! reality icon and the hit-making country star weren’t the only ones singing from the hymn book. Kourtney Kardashian, Mason Disick and Kris Jenner joined Kim at the service, and Rimes’ hubby Eddie Cibrian joined her for worship.

“Great seeing you and the fam,” LeAnn tweeted to Kim. “See you soon! Xoxo”

Kim, who described her churchgoing Sunday as the “perfect day,” echoed Rimes’ enthusiasm. “You too babe!” she replied. “See you soon! Xoxo”

For Rimes, who is recovering from minor mouth surgery last week, some spiritual healing was just what she needed. She tweeted to a fan that “friend and hubby time always helps” on the road to recovery.

These two gals seem like they’d be fun Bible-study buddies!

[From E! News]

I would be offended if I wasn’t so amused. I mean… they’re obviously just doing this to bring their famewhoring power together in perpetuity, correct? They’re not actually trying to convince anyone that they’re both deeply religious people? I think Kim is probably the one driving this Famewhore Extravaganza – she wants to change her image, so she’s been talking about bible study groups and Tim Tebow and such. She’s probably too stupid to realize how deeply sacrilegious her very existence is. As for LeAnn – well, I’ll buy that she’s been in a church before. I believe she and Eddie have done some photo-ops coming and going from church before. LeAnn probably sees herself as a martyr. Just like Jesus, y’all.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Liam Neeson has the voice, bearing, conscience and heart of a holy man, in my opinion. I could easily see him, in another world, being a parish priest, a bishop, or God knows, even the most rough-and-tumble pope ever. Liam was raised as a strict Roman-Catholic, but it’s believed that his faith in the Catholic church has dwindled over the years, and perhaps even faltered completely following the death of his much beloved wife Natasha Richardson. GAH – I just completely lost focus when I went back and re-read Liam’s interview with Esquire last year, when he talked at length about Natasha. Anyway, Liam was recently filming in Istanbul, Turkey, and while he was enjoying the location, he found himself incredibly moved by the daily calls to prayer. And now he’s thinking of converting?

He may have been named after the local priest in his Irish hometown but Liam Neeson could be leaving his Roman Catholic beliefs behind. The 59-year-old actor is said to be considering converting to Islam following a working trip to Istanbul.

According to The Sun, Neeson admitted that Islamic prayer ‘got into his spirit’ while he was filming in Turkey.

‘The call to prayer happens five times a day, and for the first week, it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit, and it’s the most beautiful, beautiful thing,’ he said.

‘There are 4,000 mosques in the city. Some are just stunning, and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim.’

Neeson was raised in Northern Ireland as a devout Roman Catholic due to his parents beliefs.

However, the Taken star has recently spoken about his opinion towards religion.

‘I was reared a Catholic, but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What’s it all about?’ he said. ‘I’m constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.’

The actor was criticised in 2010 after claiming The Chronicles Of Narnia lion, Aslan, who he provided the voice for in the film, was not based on Christ as CS Lewis had claimed but in fact all spiritual leaders including Mohammed.

[From The Mail]

I think he’s just talking, you know? He’s not like, “I listened to the prayers and I found Allah!” He’s just interested, as a student of religion, as a citizen of the world. He’s not confined by his Catholic upbringing and he seems to be encouraging the peaceful study of all religions. Or, whatever, he’s now a Muslim. What would the world look like if Liam Neeson converted to Islam?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’m not going to make fun of Gwyneth Paltrow in this post! Sorry, Goop-Love-To-Haters. This is one of the rare occasions where Gwyneth’s weekly GOOP newsletter is really interesting. In this week’s very special GOOP, Gwyneth and her dear BFF, her favorite fisherman, Jesus “H.” Christ tackle homosexuality (that was wrong, I apologize). Gwyneth – who is currently Jewish by blood on her dad’s side, and by choice because of Kabbalah – decided to focus this week’s GOOP on the various religious interpretations of Biblical teachings on homosexuality. It’s pretty good. Here’s Gwyneth’s forward, and you can read the full GOOP-letter here.

A few months ago, in the heat of the tragic teen suicides that came about from intolerance of homosexuality, I saw a man on television who was apologizing for wishing death on gays from his facebook page. This member of an Arkansas school board was contrite for the violence in his words, but maintained that his values pertaining to homosexuality would remain, as he felt homosexuality was condemned in the bible. This concept, while foreign to me, is interesting, as it used to justify so much judgement and separation in our society. When my daughter came home from school one day saying that a classmate had two mommies, my response was, “Two mommies? How lucky is she?!” What does it actually say in the bible that will cause some people to be upset by my line of thinking?

Happy pride.
Love,
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[From GOOP]

After that, Gwyneth and Jesus sit back and eat some grilled chicken, fresh from her must-have outdoor wood-burning oven, and Goop & JC let the scholars take over. Cynthia Bourgeault (Episcopal priest, writer and retreat leader), Michael Berg (a Kabbalah scholar and author), and Father Vincent C. Schwahn (an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church) all take on the philosophical, moral and religious issue of God and Gays, and then Gwyneth makes a point about “including a more conservative voice” and instead of simply contacting one of the many anti-gay religious people, she just excerpts from Dr. John Stott’s book, Issues Facing Christians Today. I’m telling you, this GOOP was a good read. I like the way Gwyneth handled it.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

As promotion for Tree of Life heats up, I’m finding that most media outlets really want to discuss the character Brad Pitt is playing in specific terms. Some say he’s playing an physically and emotionally abusive father. Some say he’s just playing a typically “strong” father of the 1950s. I’m still not sure, but Brad is getting good reviews for his performance, and some are even hinting at another Oscar nomination for him. Of course, the film is kind of controversial, and some people absolutely hate it (thus, the handful of boos at yesterday’s screening). Director Terrence Malick seems to want to raise discussions about religion and family and the universe, etc. So when Brad got some questions about how he was raised, he took the bait:

Brad Pitt was in Cannes on Monday, promoting his new film, “The Tree of Life,” and talking about how he would like his kids to perceive the film, and his reflections on his own upbringing.

“I think of everything I do now that my kids are going to see when they grow up and how are they going to feel,” Pitt told reporters Monday at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. “But they know me as a dad and I hope they’ll just think of me as a pretty damn good actor.”

Pitt plays a father bringing up his family in 1950s Texas in Terrence Malick’s long-awaited film, and the actor confessed his own childhood had its ups and downs.

“I got brought up being told things were God’s way, and when things didn’t work out it was called God’s plan,” he said. “I’ve got my issues with it. Don’t get me started. I found it very stifling.”

[From Extra]

I think Brad is pretty much an agnostic at this point. Maybe even an atheist. He’s talked before about how religion “doesn’t work” for him but I think he tends to use “religion” as a catch-all for organized religions, for Christianity and his parents’ faith. My guess? Brad is kind of Buddhist. Budget Buddhist.

Here are some photos of Brangelina leaving the post-premiere party last night:

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and Fame.

These are some new shots of Linnocent going in or out of her court-ordered community service. Is she wearing a bra this time? I can’t tell. I’m not even sure she owns a bra. She probably can’t afford one, right? She blows all of her hooker money on tequila and blow…? Allegedly.

Anyway, you know how Linnocent is going to be working with John Travolta on the Gotti movie? Well, there have been rumors that the Church of Scientology is trying to “get” Linnocent. This would be an interesting “get” for Xenu, but how in the world do you indoctrinate a delusional, narcissistic, crackheaded sociopath? You don’t. You can’t. Thus, Linnocent ran to TMZ to correct the record:

Lindsay Lohan is NOT joining the Church of Scientology … TMZ has learned — despite reports claiming John Travolta was trying to indoctrinate the actress into his religion.

Sources close to Lindsay tell TMZ, the actress has no plans whatsoever to become a Scientologist — she hasn’t taken any classes with the Church … and hasn’t even been asked to visit by current members.

We’re told Lindsay has nothing against the Church — but she was raised Catholic and plans to stay Catholic … in fact, she remains an avid practitioner to this day.

It’s all in response to several reports on Friday — that Lindsay made inroads with the Church of Scientology under the guidance of “Gotti” co-star John Travolta … but it just ain’t true.

[From TMZ]

Hahahaha, an “avid practitioner” of Catholicism. Meaning this, I suppose:

Or this:

Yeah. So devout. Jesus is all, “Ugh, this bitch.”

In other Linnocent news, a few days ago, TMZ “broke the story” that Paris Hilton “dropped the hammer” on Linnocent. Except that TMZ totally blew the whole thing out of proportion, and it’s basically like TMZ is just the girl in middle school who loves to tell everybody about how her friend Paris said this and that about her friend Lindsay and, like, OMG! Anyway, Paris was doing charity work at some homeless shelter, and a homeless woman asked for Paris’s earrings. Paris took them off and gave the earrings to the lady, who in turn asked Paris “Lindsay, why aren’t you in rehab?” Paris says – in voice over (because this was all part of her reality show) – that if she was Lindsay, she would be stealing the earrings, not giving them away. Um… yeah. Burn? Anyway, Linnocent was all “OMG, that’s SO MEAN!” and Paris went to TMZ and said “I apologize to Lindsay for the comment that I made. I was joking around but it was thoughtless and unnecessary. I am reaching out to Lindsay so I can tell her myself.” Snore.

Photos courtesy of Fame & Purple Magazine.

About two weeks ago we heard the news that Katy Perry’s mom is shopping a book that reportedly gives her take on Katy’s rise to fame. Katy’s mom and dad are freelance pentecostal preachers. Advance details of the book at the time had Katy’s mom “disagreeing” with “a lot of choices [Katy] makes in her career.” I’ve heard that Katy bought her mom a facelift, and I’ve seen photos of Katy’s parents posing with her on the red carpet at the Get Him To The Greek premiere. They certainly don’t come across like typical ministers, and it seems hypocritical of Katy’s mom to shop a tell all on one hand and enjoy the perks of her daughter’s fame on the other.

Well now we have some more excerpts from the book proposal, and it sounds even worse. Katy’s mom, Mary Perry Hudson, describes how she was shocked to see Katy’s boobs hanging out in a dress. She also explains her mixed feelings about Katy’s first hit “I Kissed a Girl.” Mary felt conflicted in that she was elated by Katy’s success on one hand and scandalized by the content of her music on the other.

Teenage Dream” is a middle-aged nightmare for her evangelistic mom — who complains in a book proposal that, “no mother wants to see the top of her daughter’s boobs.”

As we reported last week, preacher Mary Perry Hudson has been shopping a proposal on how her daughter’s racy lyrics, “foul-mouthed fiancé” — now husband Russell Brand — and suggestive outfits have affected her Christian ministry.

In the full proposal obtained by Page Six, she describes her horror at Katy’s outfits: Backstage at a concert, “Katy stepped out from behind the changing doors in a tiny risqué costume. No mother wants to see the top of her daughter’s boobs . . . My first instinct was to order her back behind those doors and demand she put something else on . . . However, I had no problem letting my eyebrows say what I wouldn’t allow my mouth to utter.”

“I recognized the psalmist gift in her performance. Yet she sang out, ‘I kissed a girl, and I liked it,’ while thousands joined her. One part of my heart soared . . . the other part broke for the thousands of hungry souls being fed something that didn’t nourish their spirit, but fed their flesh.”

Mary compares her mother-daughter relationship to the conflicts between Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus, and Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie, “whose children have risen to fame and live contrary to their parents’ beliefs.”

Mary also frets, “Oh, dear God, how can I save her from all this? The money, the fame, the network, the people surrounding her, how can I compete?”

She also sets out: “This memoir is . . . not Christian proselytizing or a Katy Perry tell-all.” But in a note about target markets, she writes, “Fans of Katy Perry and Russell Brand will flock to the bookstores to snatch up a copy . . . either through curiosity or obsession, to get a glimpse of their stars through Mary’s eyes.” A rep for Perry didn’t get back to us.

[From The NY Post]

On some level I get it, you can’t control what you kids do and when they veer pretty far from your beliefs (whatever they are, it’s not like I share this lady’s sentiments at all) it can be hard to take. They’re you kids, though, and you need to take it up with them, not the public. Airing family dirty laundry to make a buck is in no way a Christian value.

Also – how is it that big a deal to see your adult kids’ boobs? I don’t get the shock and awe over some damn cleavage. It’s incredibly closed-minded to say “No mother wants to see the top of her daughter’s boobs” as if everyone in the world has the kind of irrational fear of the human body that she does.

Mary was quoted a couple of years ago as saying a about Katy’s “I Kissed a Girl” song that “she knows we disagree strongly with what she is doing and the message she is promoting regarding homosexuality which the Bible clearly states is a sin.” (To be fair, those quotes were in the Daily Mail and could have been fabricated.) As so many of you pointed out in the comments, the Bible is full of conflicting information that people use to tray and further whatever agenda they have. I’m sure she can come up with a few quotes that help her justify selling out her daughter in order to make some cash and get a taste of fame on her own. She’s just doing it to spread the word of God, right?

Thanks to GradStudentEatingHotPockets for the link to “Why Can’t I Own a Canadian“!

Photos are from 5/25/10 and 8/25/10 of Katy’s parents. They’re shown at the Get Him To The Greek premiere and on the set of Arthur with Russell Brand. Credit: WENN.com Katy is shown out dress demurely in Manchester, England on 3/22/11. She’s also shown performing in Paris on 3/8/11. Credit: Fame.

I’ve heard that Katy Perry’s parents are super religious – her dad was a “freelance” pentecostal preacher, but she’s said that they are supportive of her music career and I’ve assumed they’re somewhat liberal culturally. A profile of Katy in 2009 claimed that in the 60s her mom dated Jimi Hendrix and her dad dealt LSD with Timothy Leary, but some of you pointed out how fake and made up that sounds, like a publicist’s dream.

In an interview with Glamour UK last year, Katy joked that her mom had an inappropriately flirty relationship with her husband Russell Brand (he was just her fiance at that time). She also told Rolling Stone around that time that her parents regularly speak in tongues and claimed that “it’s a secret, direct prayer language to God.” And we heard unconfirmed stories that Katy bought her mom a facelift and her dad was super excited about it. So I basically put all that together and got the impression that Katy’s family was very religious, but was happily living off some of the millions she’s siphoning to them and was fine with her career and choice of a marriage partner.

Now there’s news that Katy’s mom is shopping a book, and that she’ll state that she “disagrees” with her daughter’s choice of career. It’s probably just a mild disagreement, but it still doesn’t sit right with me.

Katy Perry’s preacher mother, Mary Perry Hudson, is shopping a book about how her pop-star daughter has impacted her Christian ministry, and admits that while she’s proud of Katy, she “disagrees with a lot of choices she makes in her career.”

Hudson shopped the proposal, seen by Page Six, to New York’s literary agents hoping to land a publishing deal. “This memoir is her story, in her own words. Mary and Keith Hudson have been Christian Evangelists long before the world every heard of Katy Perry,” the proposal begins.

Following her debut single, “Ur So Gay,” the raunchy singer’s career took off with her smash hit “I Kissed a Girl.” She flaunted bust-bearing outfits and sexy bad-boy husband Russell Brand while comparing her upbringing to “Jesus Camp” and recalling speaking in tongues and channeling messages from God. Perry admitted kissing girls before marrying confessed sex-addict Brand.

Perry told Rolling Stone last year, “Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as ‘Pass the salt’ . . . It’s a secret, direct prayer language to God. My dad speaks in tongues and my mom interprets it . . . I wasn’t ever able to say I was lucky because my mother would rather us say that we were blessed. Deviled eggs were called ‘angeled’ eggs.”

Her mother’s proposal states: “Amid a torrent of negative reports from tabloid magazines and entertainment shows, Mary Hudson wants to tell ‘her story’ and dispel a lot of rumors. Katy’s success has impacted her ministry in both negative and positive ways.

“She loves her daughter very much and is very proud of her accomplishments, but disagrees with a lot of choices she makes in her career. This memoir is to set the record straight. It is not Christian proselytizing or a Katy Perry tell-all. It is the story of Mary Perry Hudson.”

Co-writer T.L. Gray told us, “We currently have interest from a couple of different agencies, but have not signed with anyone . . . Mary also just completed a Christian book called ‘Joyful Mother’ that will be released soon from Destiny Image . . . we’ve been playing around with a few different titles.” A rep for Perry didn’t get back to us.

[From The NY Post]

Back in 2008, Katy’s mom supposedly told the Daily Mail that she Katy was promoting the “sin” of homosexuality with her first single, “I Kissed a Girl.” Mary Perry Hudson is quoted as saying “Katy is our daughter and we love her but we strongly disagree with how she is conducting herself at the moment.

“But the Bible also promotes understanding and forgiveness, which I keep reminding myself.”

I thought those quotes had to be fake at the time, but given this latest news maybe she really said that. It’s a shame because I thought Katy’s parents weren’t so closed minded.

Photos are from 5/26/10 at the Get Him To The Greek premiere. Katy’s parents are also shown out with Russell Brand on 8/2/10. Katy is also shown at the German launch of her perfume on 3/11/11. Credit: WENN.com

Yesterday we heard that Josh Duggar, 23, the oldest son of the prolific famous Duggar family, was expecting a son which would be his second child with his wife Anna. Josh has 18 brothers and sisters and co-stars on the Duggar’s reality show on TLC, 19 Kids and County. The big premiere for season five of show aired last night and centered around Josh and Anna finding out that they were expecting a baby boy. The news was delivered to Josh, Anna and all of the Duggar family via skywriting, no kidding, after they asked their doctor to tell Josh’s mom and keep it a secret until they could use it to promote the show.

In an interview with E!, Josh answers the question many of you have been wondering about – just how many kids does he plan on having with his wife? He sort-of says that’s not up to him at all, but he does acknowledge that there are things he can do to prevent pregnancy. He also has some thoughtful things to say about how expensive and difficult large families can be, but it sounds like he wants one anyway.

So what happens after the arrival of baby boy Duggar? Will he be the second child of many to come, or will Anna and Josh stop once they have “one of each”? If nothing else, having kids gets pretty darn expensive!

According to Josh, “‘We’ve decided we’re going to have 25.’ I always say that jokingly, but there’s a lot that goes into a family, and a lot of hard work, and that point often gets overlooked, especially with the harshness the economy is going through now. [The cost of children] is something we think about, but it’s often a sacrifice to be able to raise a child and do it well, whether you have one sacrifice or 19. It’s really not about the number of children you have, but how well are you doing with the children that God has given you. We’re just focusing on Mackenzie right now and this little boy that God has given us. We’re really just going to take it one at a time. I don’t think you can say we’re going to set out and say we’re going to have five kids or four or three. We have no control over that. God has the control. Obviously, we can do things to prevent that, but I’m glad my parents didn’t just settle to have three or four children. There are definitely a lot of advantages to trusting [in God]. Anna’s glad that her parents didn’t stop at four, because she was number five.”

But isn’t there a limit to how many ways you can realistically slice up the family pie? Josh responds that, “I would look at it from the other side: There’s always room for one more. There are arguments on both sides, and obviously we hear them all, and everybody has their own opinion, and that’s something we have to realize every day as well. We’ve been doing this in the public eye for a long time, and you get a lot of scrutiny and a lot of negative comments, but we also hear a lot of positive comments. I think any one of my siblings could attest to the fact that you could say what you want to in a general worldview, but when it comes down the individual child, there’s not any one of my siblings that I wouldn’t want to have in my life. Each person has to make that decision for themselves, but right now we’re in the state where we’ve got a little one that’s under our feet and a little one that’s on the way, but we’re just enjoying the time and the precious moments that we have at this time, and taking each moment as it comes to us.”

[From E! Online]

Under the Duggar evangelical Christian “Quiverfull” belief system parents are supposed to have as many kids as God “wants them to” and not try and prevent pregnancy at all. In Quiverfull, free will doesn’t exist when it comes to fertility.

While my first impression might be that Josh is saying he’s letting God give them as many kids as He/She sees fit, he also seems to acknowledge that it’s complicated and that it’s important to raise children well and focus on the ones you have. It’s hard to tell whether he’s saying that God controls free will when it comes to fertility or simply that there’s no way to control and predict fertility when you want to have children.

I hope for Josh and Anna’s sake they make their own choices and realize at some point that they’re not obligated to have children indiscriminately until Anna is no longer physically able. Josh, Anna and the rest of the Duggars may seem like a huge happy family but that doesn’t mean they’re typical for a Quiverfull family. Many women in the Quiverfull movement lead incredibly difficult lives of poverty and there’s a movement to help them escape and recover from years of oppressive patriarchy and child rearing.

Kim Kardashian is a child of God. Sort of. When Kim and Kourtney were on Piers Morgan on Thursday night, Piers asked Kim about her charitable contributions, as welll as any tithing she might do to a church. Kim explained that she tithed to LifeChange Community Church, in Calabasas, which is a church that Kim’s mom Kris helped set up with a former evangelical preacher who was felled by a sex scandal several years ago, and built a second church based on “second chances”. Yep. That sounds about right. Oh, and Kim does donate to The Dream Foundation, which is a legitimate charity, not just some tax shelter set up by Kris.

They’ve conquered clothing, fragrance, books and reality television, and now the Kardashian have created their own church. Speaking to Piers Morgan, Kim Kardashian has revealed how she funded a church set up last year in Calabasas by her mother Kris Jenner.

The revelation came after Morgan asked the reality star if she knew how much she was worth, to which Kim replied: ‘Whatever it is, I give 10 per cent away to the church and that’s what I was taught. Every year. Absolutely.’

During the chat on his CNN show Piers Morgan Tonight, the host asked if Kim had ‘given away millions’, to which Kim confirmed: ‘Yeah.’

‘There’s a charity that I work with a lot that I donate money all the time – the Dream Foundation – and my mum has helped create a church, so we help fund that, it’s in Calabasas,’ she said.

The 30-year-old was referring to tax-exempt contributions to the LifeChange Community Church, which was founded by Kris and Reverend Brad Johnson. Johnson, who married Kim’s sister Khloe and LA Lakers player Lamar Odom during a televised ceremony in September 2009 watched by three million people, was working at a local Starbucks before embarking on the new venture with Jenner. The embattled pastor left his prominent position as leader of the Calvary Community Church in Westlake, California – where attendance surged to 5,000 under his tenure – in disgrace after his infidelities were revealed in May 2007.

The once-powerful Johnson found a saviour in Kris Jenner- the former wife of O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian – and her cashed-up daughters. Kim chatted to Piers Morgan about her enormous newfound wealth, but said: ‘As long as we give back and help out any organisation that is close to our hearts. It’s not just (about) giving away, it’s about finding something that you really connect with. So many people ask us to donate money here and there and some things just don’t make sense to me, and I don’t feel connected or passionate about that certain thing. So when I find something it makes it so much more meaningful.’

And a church based on giving devotees second chances is something close to the reality star’s heart – after all, Kim’s rise to fame involved a leaked sex tape and a short stint as Paris Hilton’s best friend. Tattooed, charismatic Johnson worked alongside evangelical minister Rev. Rick Warren, who gave the invocation speech at President Obama’s Inauguration ceremony, in his early years. His fall from grace in 2007 was severe, causing him to attempt suicide three times after resigning from the Church.

Kris Jenner, who was a member of Calvary’s congregation, felt he deserved a second chance. ‘You went to church and you felt like he was talking to you,’ she said in an interview with the Ventura County Star. She tracked the disgraced 50-year-old down to a Starbucks he was working in to pitch him the idea for a new church.

‘People really do get a fresh start with God,’ Johnson told the Ventura County Star. Kourtney Kardashian, who stars alongside Kim in their new spin-off Kourtney and Kim Take New York, may be asking for some forgiveness after failing to match her sister’s charitable deeds.

Asked by Piers Morgan if she also gave 10 per cent to charity, Kourtney said: ‘I’m going to now – I was taught that too but I forgot about it!’

‘I don’t have as much money as Kim,’ she explained, saying her money mainly goes towards son Mason.

[From The Daily Mail]

It honestly doesn’t sound like Kim pays much attention to where her money is going in general, much less specifically to this church. This is what happens when your mother is your manager – you end up donating 10% of your income to your mom’s little pet project/tax shelter/churchy sex emporium. Yeah, I’m going to hell. You don’t even have to say it.

Photos courtesy of WENN.