Kris Jenner

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Kris Jenner
Kris Jenner shot by Jim Jordan at White Cross Studios.jpg
Jenner in 2014
Born Kristen Mary Houghton
(1955-11-05) November 5, 1955 (age 68)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Residence Hidden Hills, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Clairemont High School
Occupation
Years active 2007–present
Television Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Spouse(s) Robert Kardashian (m. 1978–91)
Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner) (m. 1991–2015)
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Kristen Mary "Kris" Jenner (née Houghton, formerly Kardashian; born November 5, 1955)[1] is an American television personality who rose to fame for starring in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians together with her family.

Jenner has been married twice; first to lawyer Robert Kardashian and later to television personality and retired Olympic Games champion Bruce Jenner (now known as Caitlyn). She has four children with Kardashian (Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Robert) and two with Jenner (Kendall and Kylie).

Early life

Jenner was born in San Diego, California. She is the daughter of Mary Jo Shannon (née Campbell) and Robert Houghton, an engineer.[2][3] When Jenner was seven years old, her parents divorced and she and her younger sister Karen were raised by their mother, until a few years later, when her mother married businessman Harry Shannon. Three months after moving to Oxnard, California, Harry's business partner ran off with all the company's money, so the family moved back to San Diego.[4] Jenner attended Clairemont High School.[citation needed] She worked as a flight attendant for a year in 1976.[citation needed]

Career

Jenner runs her own production company, Jenner Communications, which is based in Los Angeles. Since the start of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, she has managed her daughter Kim's career. She also is involved with the business management of her other daughters and son.

Writing

Jenner's autobiography, Kris Jenner... and All Things Kardashian, was released in November 2011.[5] She later wrote a cookbook entitled In the Kitchen with Kris: A Kollection of Kardashian-Jenner Family Favorites which was released in October 2014.[6]

Television show

Jenner hosted a pop culture-driven daytime talk show, Kris. The series began its six-week trial summer run on several Fox-owned stations on July 15, 2013.[7]

Kanye West, her son-in-law, revealed the first public picture of daughter North West on Kris Jenner's daytime talk show. The show's six-week trial run was not extended.[8]

Personal life

Jenner in 2010

Marriages, relationships, and children

Jenner married her first husband, lawyer Robert Kardashian (who later became widely known for his early legal representation of O. J. Simpson), on July 8, 1978.[9][10] They have four children: daughters Kourtney (born 1979), Kim (born 1980), Khloé (born 1984) and son Rob (born 1987). They divorced in March 1991, but remained close friends until his death from esophageal cancer in 2003.[11] In 2012, Kris confessed she had an affair with former soccer player and animator Todd Waterman during her marriage to Kardashian. She referred to Waterman as "Ryan" in her autobiography, but he revealed his identity on his own.[citation needed] They had an encounter on Keeping up with the Kardashians while Kris was having a tennis lesson.[citation needed]

In April 1991, one month after her divorce from Kardashian, Jenner married her second spouse, retired Olympian Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce), who completed her transition to a woman, taking the name of Caitlyn in mid 2015.[12] They have two daughters together: Kendall (born 1995) and Kylie (born 1997).[13] In her autobiography, Jenner explained that she named her daughter Kendall Nicole after Nicole Brown Simpson.[14] Through Caitlyn, Kris also had four stepchildren: Burt, Cassandra "Casey", Brandon and Brody.

The Jenners announced their separation in October 2013,[15][16] and on September 22, 2014, she filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[17] The divorce became final on March 23, 2015, because of a six-month state legal requirement.[18][19] Kris Jenner has talked about the breakup with Caitlyn as "the most passive-aggressive thing" saying that while she had known of her partner's use of hormones in the 1980s, "there wasn't a gender issue. Nobody mentioned a gender issue."[20]

Since late 2014, Jenner has been in a relationship with Corey Gamble.[21]

California Community Church

In 2012, Jenner and Pastor Brad Johnson founded the California Community Church, originally called the Life Change Community Church, located in Agoura Hills, California.[22]

Plastic surgery

As recounted in her memoir, Jenner underwent plastic surgery to enhance her breasts twice; she has had extensive work done on her nose as well as many applications of botox. In June 2011, Jenner had plastic surgery months before her daughter Kim's wedding to Kris Humphries. She allowed the preparations and recovery from the surgery to be recorded. The video footage can be seen on E! Online and "Kim's Fairytale Wedding Part 1" episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. She explained: "I needed a little freshening up for the wedding. Just doing what a girl's gotta do!"[23]

References

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  9. ↑ Stated on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, November 8, 2011
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  11. ↑ "Robert Kardashian, a Lawyer For O. J. Simpson, Dies at 59", The New York Times, October 2, 2003.
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  13. ↑ Kris Kardashian Biography. Buddytv.com. Retrieved September 6, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Kris Jenner shares details on her relationship with Nicole Brown Simpson in new memoir". Entertainment Weekly; November 1, 2011.
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