Kris Jenner is more than just a TV mom
he's also the tie that binds the famous
Kardashian and Jenner family together
and catapulted her children into stardom
well it's hard to imagine her as
anything but the all-powerful matriarch
of the reality fam there was indeed a
time when Jenner was probably one of the
few people in the world who actually
cared about Keeping Up with the
Kardashians here's what Kris Jenner
would like before she became such a big
screen personality Kristin Mary Houghton
before she was the Kardashian aura
Jenner Christmas Kristin Mary Houghton
born in San Diego California to a
middle-class family her parents divorced
when she was seven years old and Kristin
and her younger sister Karen were raised
by their mother NJ until she remarried
due to her stepfathers business changes
Kris found herself moving around quite a
bit
which is probably why she was so
prepared for her busy lifestyle today
come fly with Chris these days Jenner is
accustomed to jetting around the world
in private planes and flying for his
class but she was once on the less
glamorous side of the friendly skies
after graduating from high school she
works as a flight attendant for American
airline Chris reportedly only held the
job for a year but given her flair for
the extravagance we can only imagine her
safety briefing as nothing short of
iconic oh yeah
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when Robert met Chris Chris's romance
with attorney Robert Kardashian was love
at first sight well at least for him
Jenner reportedly met Robert at a horse
racing track in California when she was
just 17 even though he was 11 years her
senior and she reportedly rejected his
initial proposal the debonair lawyer was
not deterred Chris eventually accepted
Roberts second proposal and the two Wed
in 1978 and had their four children
together Kourtney Kim khloé and Robert
so began Chris's high-profile life
consider her the original real housewife
of Beverly Hills an affair to remember
the Kardashian marriage eventually
imploded much to the detriment of her
late ex-husband the pair split in 1990
because as she recounted in her 2011
memoir she had an affair with animator
and former soccer stars Todd Waterman
her
book describes the trip in nauseating
detail and the decision resulted in a
messy divorce we're talking cancelled
credit cards messy Jenner cites the
dalliance with Waterman as her only
regret in life I think I have one regret
and that was getting divorced the Jenner
Bunch
before the ink was dry on Chris and
Roberts divorce papers he went on a
blind date with the Olympic gold
medalist formerly known as Bruce Jenner
the connection was undeniable and the
two were married within a year in fact
Bruce now Caitlyn had to meet with
Robert and ask him to finalize the
divorce before the pair could get hit
but the group was eventually united and
they became stepparents to each other's
eight children from previous marriages
eventually the couple would welcome
their own pair of daughters as well and
with that their family was complete with
Roberts blessing Robert and I at the end
of his life were best friends and so is
Bruce I have some of the greatest
pictures of him holding Kendall and
Kylie as babies and he was uncle Robert
the trial of the century the impact of
the OJ Simpson case on recent history is
undeniable which his wives often
referred to as the trial of the century
interestingly few people were closer to
the drama than Kris not only was she
good friends with the football stars
murdered ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson
but she also watched her ex-husband
serve on the dream team of attorneys
defending the man accused of killing her
friend needless to say the 1994 trial
became a period of immense emotional
turmoil for the entire family
during the high-profile televised trial
Kris who was pregnant with Kendall at
the time actually sat in court wearing
Nicole's hand-me-down maternity gloves
in another attempt to keep her friends
memory alive Kris gave her first
daughter with Bruce the name Kendall
Nicole Jenner infomercial Queen we all
know that mama Jenner is an overachiever
by Nature which is why she wasn't
content with just being Bruce's wife she
chose to be his manager as well she
spent a good deal of the mid-90s
negotiating her husband's endorsement
deals and creating an assortment of
highly profitable opportunities from
putting together press kits to booking
speeches she did it all in 1994 the
couple premiered a self-produced
infomercial and launched a successful
line of fitness equipment
at home momager before she was producing
sex tapes and booking Playboy shoes
Chris was just another stay-at-home mom
with an uncanny ability to weave careers
of gold for her kids she picked the idea
for a reality show
following her relatively unknown family
to entertainer mogul Ryan Seacrest in
2007 and the rest is history the
high-powered momager has since literally
trademarked the term that has marked her
public life ever since Keeping Up with
the Kardashians launched
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