I always measure a celebrity’s success on how well they are known throughout a house hold. And by house hold I mean from the youngest person to the oldest. From the children to the grandparents. It’s pretty safe to say that everyone knows who Oprah is. I’m more then sure if you ask your father who Will Smith is, he will know.

So you could imagine my surprise when visiting my grandmother’s house the other day, she was watching “Keeping up the Kardashians”.  When asked why she was watching, she told me that she and most women at the Senior Citizen home LOVED the show, and that they even had a small party for the season finale.  AND after talking for what seemed like days about how beautiful and funny they girls were, she then showed me her newest addition to her perfume collection. No other then Kim’s new perfume self titled “Kim Kardashian”.

So when did this happen? I mean this is a girl who’s name came to fame from a sex tape.  Now she’s  the princess of the media. The season finale my grandmother and her fellow seniors were so excited about was one of E’s highest rating shows in history with 4.8 million viewers. Then she has her perfume, which is only exclusively sold at Sephora. A work out DVD. An online shoe company. A clothing line which just launched with Bebe. And so many endorsements you’d lose count.  Not to mention her very high profile relationship with NFL player Reggie Bush. As a native of New Orleans, home of the Saints, I can tell you she was at EVERY game, and was shown at EVERY game on TV.

And we can’t forget her sisters.

and Kourtney. They’ve been on covers of countless magazines. Khloe whos married to NBA player Lamar Odoms , is in talks of getting their own reality show. Her Wedding, which was televised,  also broke records on E. She’s  now a correspondent at E . One of the “Fashion Police”. And they are about to start shooting the 2^nd season of “Kourtney and Khloe take Miami” which follows them around Miami as they promote their new  Boutique “Dash”. Which from what I’ve heard, is quite pricey.

These girls are taking over the world. And I can’t say that I’d blame them. They clearly prove to be smart girls by staying relevant in such a fickle industry.  Us men, probably only pay attention because let’s just be real,  Kim Kardashian has to be one of the best looking women in Hollywood.  It’s really the only reason I know who she is.

Before I left my grandmother’s house that day, I started to tell her how impressed I was that Kim had made such a come up from her sex tape with Ray J. That she was a business women outside of just a reality TV star. My grandmother responded, and was dead serious I might add

“What sex tape? Kim wouldn’t do something as silly as that.”

I started to say something but she then followed it with the question:

“And who is Ray J?”

Johnny S.

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