Smarter-Than-She-Looks Kim Kardashian Supports Hillary Clinton for President & Wants Tighter Gun Control
Hillary Clinton in Donna Karan at her first state dinner. Kim Kardashian West in Balmain exiting the Commonwealth Club. Photo: Getty Images
Kim Kardashian’s an open book — have you picked up your copy of Selfish yet? But on Tuesday, the reality star revealed more about herself, showing an intellectual side that many believed the 34-year-old to be completely devoid of. “I think people still look at me as the persona that’s portrayed on the show,” she told LaDoris Cordell, Northern California’s first female black judge, at the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. “The show doesn’t video my boring work meetings throughout the day. It’s hard when people want to put you in a certain box or a certain way. I don’t pay much attention to it.”
Keeping Up With the Kardashians also doesn’t capture her personal beliefs, instead focusing on family drama (it’s juicy!), shopping, and lifestyles of the rich and the famous. But the 34-year-old’s married to a black man at a critical and contentious time in America’s history. “I think that when I was a teenager, my father knew or somehow put together that I was going to inevitably end up with a black guy and would make sure to tell me story after story about racial difficulties and how he always fought for the better,” she mused on her upbringing and Robert Kadashian’s lessons. Growing up, she “always had friends of different races” and plans to instill similar acceptance in daughter North West, and her yet-to-be-born son. “Kanye [West] is very vocal, so I’m sure he’ll have a lot more to say to my kids.“ She added of her husband, “I love most the way he loves, the way he creates, and the way he thinks. He’s such a good person and I love how he just stands up for whatever he believes in wholeheartedly and never backs down without a care for how it comes across.”
And Kanye’s helped Kim to adapt this kind of attitude. “He’s taught me to just be me. I really used to care so much about how people thought of me, and he taught me to not care.” But just because she’s learned to take less offense to the unflattering critiques, doesn’t mean she’s not tuned into it, and the larger sense of objectification of women, herself included, in the media. “I think women sometimes do it to themselves, but I also think that if you have the power, you can take that power and put out what you want people to look at and what you feel is beautiful,” she said. Also, people call her a feminist, but she doesn’t like to “put labels.”
Obviously, what Kardashian’s putting out has recently undergone a seismic shift: from sex tape bimbo to informed citizen, she’s changing the conversation surrounding her much followed life. When asked about the Supreme Court decision legalizing same sex marriage, she admitted to being “Proud of Obama and proud to be an American.” She’s also seemingly planning to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016, looking forward to seeing the first female president. (If Clinton doesn’t take the Oval Office, perhaps we should consider this: Kardashian West 2020.) On gun control, she mused, “I’m not the type to have them in my house. They scare me so much. If I could do something to change the world. I’m not really a gun person, and we do not have strict enough gun control laws.”
Moral of the chat: Never judge a book by its cover — even if there’s a Kim Kardashian selfie on it.
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