Kim Kardashian is taking a trip down memory lane!
The 45-year-old reality star recently spoke with Time Magazine about her new MasterClass: The New Rules of Business: The Ten Kimmandments with Kim Kardashian, and revealed that right before she first became famous, she decided to change her name.
Keep reading to find out more…Kim explained that before she started filming Keep Up with the Kardashians, which premiered on E! in 2007, she only went by her full name, Kimberly.
She said that she was rarely referred to as “Kim,” which the whole world has come to call her.
“I used to always go by Kimberly, until we signed on to do the reality show,” Kim explained. “And when I looked at my chyron, Kimberly Kardashian, I said, ‘I think that’s so long for people to say.’ And like, ‘Let’s just shorten it to Kim.’”
She continued, “And it’s so weird, because all my friends from high school and growing up, and my dad, everyone calls me Kimberly.”
Also in the interview, Kim said that since she was a child, she wanted to star on a reality show.
“I really wanted to do a reality show since the day MTV’s The Real World came out,” Kim recalled. “I watched it with my best friend. I looked at her and I told her, ‘That’s what I’m going to do.’” And she said, ‘I’ll be your manager.’ I think we were 11.”
“I said, ‘When we’re 18, we have to make a tape and send it into The Real World,’” she continued. “Her dad’s in the music-business management world. So she said, ‘Oh, we can get my dad to send it to someone at MTV.’ We made a whole plan.”
During a recent episode of The Kardashians, Kim revealed her one regret about wearing Marilyn Monroe‘s dress to the 2022 Met Gala.