Kim Kardashian was so ‘desperate’ to be famous back in 2006-2009, at the dawn of her E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, that she used to scam the paparazzi.
The 45-year-old billionaire confessed on her sister’s podcast Khloé in Wonder Land last Wednesday: ‘[Fame] is all I wanted. I lived for it.’
Kardashian recalled the time her BFF Jonathan Cheban discovered which New York City hotel Britney Spears was staying at, and the pair caught a ride there in a Rolls-Royce Phantom thanks to a kind (and wealthy) stranger.
‘We were like, “We’ll sit in the back.” So, it looks like we got out with a driver at this hotel. Paparazzi everywhere waiting for Britney at her hotel,’ the Skims CCO/founding partner said.
‘We got out and they were like, “Kim, Kim, Kim, are you here to visit Britney?” and Jonathan [mutters], “Keep your head down and just, like, shut up.”‘
Once inside, Kardashian and the 52-year-old influencer darted inside a phone booth in the lobby and remained there for 20 minutes because they ‘didn’t know anyone at this hotel.’
‘We come out [of the hotel], and they’re like: “Kim, how was Britney? Kim, how was Britney?”‘ the Calabasas socialite recalled.
‘We took a cab, I think, because this Rolls-Royce dropped us off, but they weren’t going to take pictures of us, like, getting in. So, we totally scammed the system. And it was like on every [magazine] cover. And we thought we were killing it.’
Kardashian is still friends with Cheban, whom she met ‘by chance’ at a birthday party in 2009, and he last appeared in the March 6 episode of The Kardashians.
