The Kim Kardashian whisperer: Biographer loved by women of Hollywood
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US TV personality Kim Kardashian on the red carpet for the screening of the movie All’s Fair at the 21st Rome Film Festival in Rome, Italy, on Oct 24.
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Katie Rogers
- Jonathan Van Meter wrote an authorised biography of Kim Kardashian with Anna Wintour’s support. He spent five years interviewing Kardashian and her family.
- The book shows Kardashian as a self-made cultural force. It links her drive to her childhood, her family’s divorce, and the O.J. Simpson trial.
- Van Meter says Kardashian trusted him because he writes with warmth. The book also covers her sex tape, her rise, her divorce from Kanye West, and her changing life.
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UNITED STATES – Imagine for a second that you are Kim Kardashian and you are approached by someone who wants to write a book about you.
You are wealthy enough to create your own gated kingdom in California. You can reach 343 million Instagram followers – a bigger number than the population of the US – with the tap of a button. You are the star of a reality show on which you have documented multiple divorces, births, businesses and, very crucially, the aftermath of a sex tape that catapulted you to the molten centre of early-aughts celebrity culture.