Whether you’re a fan of the Kardashians or not, the famous family have us all trapped
in their multi-million-dollar Swarovski crystal web because of their outrageous lifestyles,
relatable family dynamic, but mostly in large part due to their SCANDALS.
Momager Kris Jenner has been the ringleader of her lavish pack of offspring circa ‘07,
and works overtime mixing the most shocking scandals into their hectic lives, but just
how calculated are these scandals with the season premieres of their reality show?
Stay tuned as we go FULL CSI mode and break down all the evidence that confirms the “Kardashian
Kontroversy Konspiracy” in order to generate their continuous cash flow.
Okay we’ve all heard the saying before: The devil works hard but Kris Jenner works
even harder.
It’s just the way it is!
That phrase rings more true than ever before as fans have caught on to the major firestorms
that occur RIGHT before a new season premieres of Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Whether it’s a cheating scandal, pregnancy, birth, unwarranted lavish party or a legit
physical fight, you’re lying if you say you’re not the slightest bit interested,
but this also means that Kris Jenner has fulfilled her millionaire momager duties.
So let’s circle back all the way to the start of Keeping Up With The Kardashians in
2007: This might’ve been the year that Britney shaved her head, but it was also the year
that Kim Kardashian’s infamous 2003 sex tape with Ray J “accidentally” leaked.
What a solid talking point for the first season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians which premiered
on October 14, 2007, amiright?
Around the time the show aired, Kim’s celebrity status skyrocketted as she would continue
to address the sex tape leak on talk shows, radio shows and interviews for years to come,
which immediately hooked viewers into hoping she’d address it more on the show.
So you may be thinking that this specific case scenario was just a coincidence, but
we’re not even close to being finished spilling the evidence, so get comfy.
Fast forward to 2011 and the entire sixth season of The Kardashians revolved around
the blossoming relationship between Kim and her boyfriend-turned-husband Kris Humphries.
To be honest, this relationship was DOOMED from the get-go after the family trip to Bora
Bora showed fans the real Kris Humphries, but hey, it makes for good reality TV, right?
We can never forget about the scene where Kris throws Kim into the ocean and causes
her to lose her $75,000 diamond earring…
Somehow, Kim managed to look past the earring, and their “Fairytale wedding” aired in
two parts at the end of season six.
Although most of their marital issues went down behind closed doors, Kim’s 72-day marriage
served as the perfect subject while filming The Kardashians spinoff Kourtney and Kim Take
New York, annnnnd the crying Kim meme was born…
Kim’s divorce, along with rumors that she’d been starting to date Kanye West in season
7 boosted ratings and gave tabloids plenty of talking points.
But as Kim began to grow her family shortly after her divorce with Kris was finalized,
the attention was taken off of her in 2014, and onto the youngest sister, Kylie Jenner.
Rumors that Kylie had gotten lip fillers as a 15-year-old began devouring headlines as
fans shared side-by-side photos and picked apart her new image.
In a now-deleted tweet from April of 2015, Kylie denied getting lip fillers, which obviously
just made the internet that much more convinced she did get them.
She wrote, “These plastic surgery rumors hurt my feelings to be honest and are kinda
insulting.
Just in case anyone forgot..
I'm 16.”
The truth came out later on in 2015 just after Ky had turned 17, as she finally confessed
to having ‘temporary lip fillers’ as a means of masking a big insecurity of hers
during Keeping Up With The Kardashians confessional.
Kylie’s lips were addressed later on in season 10, and not only was this a perfectly-executed
PR movement to help promote the show, but it also launched Kylie’s multi-billion dollar
makeup business.
This caused ratings for the season 10 episode that aired on May 10th, 2015, to soar to a
whopping 2.09 million viewers…
Now do you believe we’re onto something?
A year later in 2016 Kim was staying in Paris when reports swept headlines that she was
tied up and held at gunpoint, locked in a bathroom and had over $10 million worth of
jewelry stolen, while her sisters were out one night.
Although this was a legitimate TERRIFYING incident, many were STILL convinced this whole
thing was a publicity stunt as tweets came flooding in saying things like, “@kimkardashian
held at gunpoint is this real or publicity stunt you never can tell these days.”
Even radio icon Howard Stern had his suspicions…
Fans were intrigued by the entire mystery surrounding the robbery, new weekly findings,
and the fact that Kim’s bodyguard might’ve had something to do with the heist, therefore
projecting the season, which aired on March 12, 2017, to be the most emotional and popular
one to date.
But despite the Paris robbery, and even throwing in some details about Kanye’s breakdown
during his Pablo tour, the show would continue to slip in viewership each week, going from
1.58 million to 1.41 million, then to 1.35 million viewers in the season’s first three
episodes.
And if you wanna compare that to an average viewing rate of 2 million per episode and
a whopping 10.5 million during Kim’s wedding to Kris Humphries, you can see the difference.
This is pretty shocking, considering the rest of the family had a WILD year between Kendall’s
controversial Pepsi ad, Caitlyn Jenner’s memoir exposing the family and Khloe’s new
TV show, “Kocktails With Khloe”
Therefore, Kris was forced to call upon the reinforcements…
AKA RE-PRO-DUCTION.
I don’t know if it was something she put in her home’s air filters or if some sort
of dare was put in place, but in one of the boldest moves to date, Kris somehow managed
to time the pregnancies of THREE of her daughters perfectly.
Obviously Kim used a surrogate for Chicago!
The family is said to have “leaked the news of both Khloe and Kylie’s pregnancies just
TWO DAYS before the family’s 10th anniversary special and two WEEKS before Kim announced
she hired a surrogate to have their third child.
UHHHMMM…
JUST…
HOW?!
And just really quick, notice the two dates on the TMZ articles -- Kylie’s being September
22nd and Khloe’s on September 26th.
That’s FOUR days apart, four days before the season 14 premiere, and also pretty dang
genius, if you ask me.
The 10th anniversary special aired on September 24th, which many thought is where Kylie might
confirm the rumors.
Spoiler alert: She doesn’t because she didn’t even show up, and Twitter was unanimously
pissed.
BUT, it’s interesting to note that bailing on the 10th anniversary all while a massive
rumor is circulating about you is SUSS, Y’ALL!
Anyway, unlike Khloe, who confirmed her pregnancy herself just three months after rumors kicked
up, Kylie waited until Superbowl Sunday, three days after Stormi was born, to officially
announce the big news.
But according to a Forbes article from January 2018, the ratings from season 14 began to
improve in line with the scandals and big announcements.
Apparently Kris had to start getting real crafty with the scandals after season 14,
which is when Tristan Thompson’s initial cheating scandal all went down.
On April 10th, 2018, news broke that Tristan cheated on Khloe just DAYS after she was due
to give birth.
Fans were heartbroken upon hearing the news, especially because having a child and raising
a family is all Khloe has ever wanted.
TMZ published the footage in April from the previous October of Tristan motor-boating
two women, but this is when fans became awfully suspicious of the coincidental timing…
Why would the outlet publish the video almost a full six months later?
Many fans caught onto the fact that the new season was in the middle of filming and that
E! wanted some juicy new content.
One user tweeted QUOTE, “Soooooo that video of Tristan Thompson cheating on Khloe is from
October but it just now comes out while khloe is due to give birth any day and they’re
shooting another season of KUWTK the devil works hard but not harder than Kris Jenner.”
Another fan wrote, “My girl Kris Jenner already figured out a way to make 10% off
of Tristan Thompson cheating on Khloe.”
Later on in November, E! teased a clip of the Kardashians finding out about the Tristan
cheating scandal, so obviously we’re gonna tune in…
The questions… like…
Who?
When?
Why?
Hello?! Khloe is PREGNANT!
But THANK GAWD all the cameras were on the sisters at the EXACT same time, amiright?!
Fans would soon look forward to hearing someone address the allegations on the show, and to
nobody’s surprise, Khloe was the first to address them, by driving even more viewers
to the show with a series of cryptic tweets.
On November 4th, she wrote, “Tonight’s episode is an uncomfortable and super emotional
one for me, but when we signed up for this show over a decade ago, we signed up for a
reality show, which meant showing you guys inside our lives, the good, the bad and the
ugly.”
She added, “To relive these moments all over again is incredibly difficult emotionally
but I also hope that with every trial, tribulation and curve ball life throws at us, that we
ALL get to learn from our journeys.”
Naturally, view counts soard back up to more than 1 million for each of the episodes following
the drama.
However, fans began to lack sympathy considering this is allegedly how Khloe and Tristan’s
relationship began… when Tristan allegedly cheated on his then baby-mama with Khloe.
One user responded to Khloe’s tweet, writing, “I’m confused… while his ex was pregnant
he cheated on her with Khloe and she had no sympathy for her so she knew what type of
man she was dealing with.”
I hate to say this, but…they’re right.
So we’re working with a lot of babies and cheating scandals… this next coincidental
Kontroversey centers around a feud between the sisters, which we haven’t seen since
like… ok, probably the previous episode.
Anyway, just before the season 15 premiere, the sisters went into a totally not-staged
feud between Kim and Kourtney, which ended with Kim calling Kourtney “least exciting
to look at” after Kourt revealed she had prior obligations and couldn’t make the
family Christmas card shoot.
This fight even escalated to real-time on Twitter, which caused fans to think that something
was actually going down.
Kim and Kourtney went back and forth about priorities and being a mother and a bunch
of stuff that was honestly A LOT to comprehend for a Sunday night.
All thanks to the sibling drama, ratings that night ended up premiering at 1.36 million
viewers— a decent step up from Season 14's 1.29 million-viewer finale.
Still, fans weren’t buying it.
Many called out Kris Jenner once again for being the mastermind in stirring the pot,
buuuut after second thought, were quick to call themselves out for still giving into
the drama.
One user wrote, “S/O to the Kardashians (read Kris Jenner) for creating hype with
this whole Kourtney/Kim thing for ratings.
Whether it's staged or not, I won't even lie, I'll be tuning in lol.”
Annnnd it’s back to the drawing board… but this time around the Tristan cheating
scandal took a whoooooole different turn as TMZ broke the news that he was cheating with
someone in the family’s own tribe…
Behold, the Jordyn Woods cheating scandal.
In December of 2018, it was reported that The Kardashians ratings had dropped significantly…
not even a million viewers tuned in for the season 15 finale.
On February 19, 2019, news dropped that Tristan cheated on Khloe once again, but this time
with Kylie’s best friend Jordyn Woods.
This also happened to be just a few weeks shy of The Kardashians season 16 premiere
and coincidentally, the family just so happened to be filming at the time.
Without hearing a peep from the family, fans noticed that Kylie’s “Jordy” lip kit
conveniently goes on sale and “sells out.”
One week later, E! premiered this THIRSTY trailer to tease the upcoming season that
suggests some trouble in Calabasas paradise…
The whole ordeal, which centered around Jordyn leaving Tristan’s house at 7:30 in the morning
after she admitted the two had “just kissed” was allegedly NOT a publicity stunt, but all
the more ammo to use this to the show’s advantage.
After the unfollowing and the he-said-she-said, later on in March, Jordyn appeared on Jada
Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk to reveal that this is not, in fact, a PR stunt, saying
QUOTE, “I wish I could say this was a publicity stunt, but this is my real life.
Real people are hurting.
It’s been real.
It’s been real.”
Buuuuut again… fans still aren’t buying it.
One user wrote, “I just want to remind people that Jada Pinkett Smith is very close to the
Kardashian’s and has dinner with Kris Jenner almost once a week.
Don’t be surprised if the Jordyn Woods interview is another Kardashian PR stunt.”
But the year is 2019 and the drama clearly doesn’t stop there, as media outlets began
breaking the news that Travis Scott had cheated on Kylie in early March of last year.
Again, this all conveniently went down just weeks before the season 16 premiere, which
aired on March 31st, sooooo it’s safe to say I rest my case.
Although we could definitely keep it going with even more scandals, like Kylie and Travis
breaking up, another West baby, Kylie reuniting with Tyga and Tristan thirsting for Khloe’s
love, I’ll save that for another day.
So based on all the evidence, hopefully a lightbulb went off and you’ve got some thoughts,
so be sure to share any questions, concerns or even more evidence down here in the comments.
If you want more right now, you can click right over here for the latest on Khloe’s
plans to have more babies with Tristan.
I'm Emile Ennis Jr. with Clevver News, bye guys!