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Being the matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner family, executive producing and starring in the reality television series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and its spin-offs, and managing the careers of her children.
Key Dates and Places
Born Date: November 5, 1955.
Born Place: San Diego, California, USA.
Career
Current occupation: Media personality, socialite, businesswoman, producer, talent manager.
Past occupations: Flight attendant (briefly), ran a children's boutique.
Current Place of Work: Jenner Communications (her production company), various television and media ventures.
Achievements and Recognition
Awards: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with her family for "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".
Education
Clairemont High School, San Diego, California.
Skills
Business management, public relations, negotiation, media strategy, event planning, reality TV production, social media marketing.
Languages
Languages Spoken: English.
Accent: American.
Personality
Temper: Generally perceived as assertive and strategic, known for being protective of her family and career-driven.
Life Philosophy: Likely revolves around family, success, and maintaining a strong public image. Emphasis on brand building and entrepreneurial spirit.
Famous Quotes
While there is no single signature quote, she is known for various quotable moments on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians". The quote, "You're doing amazing, sweetie!" is often associated with her, although it was not originally directed at her but was to Kim Kardashian.
Residence and Financial Status
Residence: Calabasas, California (likely among other properties).
Net Worth: Estimated at $170 million - $200 million (as of 2024).
Real Estate: Owns and has owned multiple properties in the Calabasas and Hidden Hills areas of California, including a prominent family home featured on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".
Assets: Includes her share of Kardashian-Jenner family businesses, Jenner Communications, real estate holdings, investments, and luxury vehicles.
Relationships
Past Romantic Relationships: Cesar Sanudo.
Current Romantic Relationship: Corey Gamble.
Past Marriages: Robert Kardashian (m. 1978–1991), Caitlyn Jenner (m. 1991–2015).
Family
Children: Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Robert Kardashian Jr. (with Robert Kardashian); Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner (with Caitlyn Jenner).
Parents: Mary Jo Shannon (née Campbell), Robert Houghton.
Siblings: Karen Houghton (deceased), Steven Houghton.
Main Milestones
Birth in San Diego, California
November 5, 1955
Kristen Mary Houghton was born in San Diego, California, to Mary Jo Shannon and Robert Houghton, an engineer. Her early life shaped her ambition and drive, providing a foundation for her future endeavors. She experienced divorce at a young age as her parents separated when she was seven years old.
Marriage to Robert Kardashian
July 8, 1978
At the age of 22, Kris married Robert Kardashian, a lawyer who later became famous for his involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. This marked a significant turning point in her life, as she became immersed in the world of high society and influence. Together, they had four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Robert Jr. This marriage set the stage for her future role as a mother and, eventually, a 'momager'.
Divorce from Robert Kardashian
March 1991
After 13 years of marriage, Kris and Robert Kardashian divorced. This was a pivotal moment in her life as she navigated single motherhood and sought to redefine her identity and career path while remaining active in the lives of her children. She received a modest settlement which she supplemented by starting her own business.
Marriage to Bruce Jenner (later Caitlyn Jenner)
April 21, 1991
Shortly after her divorce, Kris married Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner. This union expanded her family with Bruce's four children and brought two more children, Kendall and Kylie, into the Kardashian/Jenner fold. The blended family dynamics and Bruce's public persona as an Olympian would later contribute to the narrative explored in "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".
Premiere of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians"
2007
This year marked the explosive launch of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" on E!. Kris served as an executive producer and a central character in the show, leveraging the series to promote her family's personal brands and launch various business ventures. The show's success propelled the Kardashian-Jenner family to global fame and established Kris as a shrewd businesswoman and pop culture icon.
Business Ventures & 'Momager' Role
2007-Present
Following the success of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", Kris effectively managed the careers of her children, securing endorsement deals, launching product lines, and building their personal brands. She became known as the ultimate 'momager,' demonstrating a keen understanding of marketing, public relations, and brand building. Her successful navigation of the media landscape has established her as a formidable figure in the entertainment and business worlds.
Divorce from Bruce Jenner
December 2014
After 23 years of marriage, Kris and Bruce Jenner finalized their divorce. The divorce occurred shortly before Bruce's transition into Caitlyn Jenner, further adding to the media attention and public scrutiny surrounding the family. This period saw Kris navigate complex family dynamics and continue her role as a supportive figure to her children amidst personal challenges.
The Kardashians premieres on Hulu
2022
The Kardashian family moved their reality television empire from E! to Hulu, premiering "The Kardashians." Kris Jenner continues as an executive producer and main cast member. This move signifies the family's continued relevance in the world of entertainment and reality television, demonstrating Kris Jenner's keen ability to adapt to evolving media landscapes.
Kristen Mary Jenner (néeHoughton/ˈhoʊtən/HOH-tən, formerly Kardashian; born November 5, 1955) is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She rose to fame starring in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007–2021) with her family. The success of their show led her and her family to star in multiple spin-off series, including Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami (2009), Kourtney and Kim Take New York (2011), Khloe & Lamar (2011), Rob & Chyna (2016) and Life of Kylie (2017). She acted as executive producer for most of her family's reality programs. In 2013, she hosted a six week long pop culture-driven daytime talk show, called Kris. Following her family's decision to sign off from E! in 2021, they then went on to star in The Kardashians on Hulu from 2022.
Kristen Mary Houghton was born in San Diego, California, on November 5, 1955, the elder of two children born to Mary Jo "M. J." Shannon (née Campbell; born 1934), who owned a children's clothing store, and Robert True "Bob" Houghton (1931–1975), an engineer.[1][2][3][4] When she was seven years old, M. J. and Bob divorced, and she and her younger sister, Karen Casey (née Houghton; 1958–2024), were raised by their mother. M. J. would eventually remarry, to businessman Harry Shannon (1926–2003), who helped raise Jenner and her sister. By her mother's marriage to Harry, she gained a stepbrother, Steven "Steve" Shannon.[5]
Three months after moving to Oxnard, California, Shannon's business partner allegedly left with all the company's capital, so the family moved back to San Diego.[6] In San Diego, Jenner worked at Shannon & Company, a children's clothing store that belonged to her mother.[7] Jenner attended Clairemont High School[8] and graduated in 1973.[9] In 1975, when Jenner was 19, her father died in a car crash in Mexico.[10] She worked for American Airlines as a flight attendant for a year in 1976.[11]
Jenner met with Ryan Seacrest in 2007 to pursue a reality television show based on her family. Seacrest, who had his own production company, decided to develop the idea, having the popular family-based show The Osbournes in his mind. Jenner further commented on the possible series:[12]
Like, there's the little girls, and there's the older girls, and then there's my son. [...] Everybody thinks that they could create a bunch of drama in their lives, but it's something that I felt I didn't even have to think about. It would be natural.
The show eventually was picked up to air on the E! cable network, with Jenner acting as the executive producer. The series focused on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian–Jenner blended families.[13] The series debuted on October 14, 2007, and became one of the longest-running reality television shows in the country.[14]
The series was successful for its network, E!, and has resulted in the creation of numerous spin-offs[15] including Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (2009), in which Jenner has made multiple guest appearances.[16] Jenner was also featured as a recurring cast member in Kourtney and Kim Take New York, which premiered in January 2011. Also in 2011, Jenner made an appearance in her daughter's show, Khloe & Lamar when it debuted, and the series focused on Khloe Kardashian and her then husband Lamar Odom's personal life and relationship.[17] On March 26, 2014, E! announced a Keeping Up with the Kardashians spin-off series titled Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamptons. The Hamptons follows Kourtney, Khloé, and Scott Disick as they relocate to The Hamptons while the girls work on the New York Dash store plus open a pop-up store.[18] The show also featured their family including Jenner. In 2017, Jenner's youngest daughter Kylie, featured as the central cast member for the E! reality spin off series Life of Kylie.[19][20][21]
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.[22]Kanye West, her then-son-in-law through his marriage to Kim, revealed the first public picture of Jenner's granddaughter North West on the show. The show's six-week trial run was not extended.[23]
In 2015, Jenner appeared as a recurring cast member in six episodes of the E! reality series I Am Cait. The show followed the journey of her ex-husband Caitlyn Jenner's (formerly Bruce) gender transition.[24][25][26] Even after their 2015 divorce, they continued to co-star on Keeping Up with the Kardashians together with their children.
In 2021, Jenner and her family announced that their reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, would be ending after twenty seasons and almost 15 years on air.[27][28][29] The final (twentieth) season premiered on March 18, 2021.[30][31]
In April 2022, Jenner and her family returned to the television screens with their brand new reality television show, titled The Kardashians, after they left the E! Network to join Hulu.[32][33][34] The show features Jenner, alongside her daughters Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kendall and Kylie, it also features ex and current partners including Scott Disick, Travis Barker, Tristan Thompson, and Corey Gamble, with Kanye West making a guest appearance.[35] The first season premiered on 14 April 2022, and its ten episodes can be streamed exclusively on Disney+.[36][37] Later in 2022, the show was announced to be returning for a second season, which officially premiered on 22 September 2022.[38][39][40] In late 2022, it was announced that the show had been officially renewed for a third season, set to premier in the first half of 2023.[41][42][43] The third season officially aired on 25 May 2023.[44][45][46]
In 2024, Jenner joined the production team of the forthcoming Hulu legal drama series All's Fair serving as an executive producer. Her daughter Kim stars in the series.[47]
Jenner runs her own production company, Jenner Communications, which is based in Los Angeles. Since before the start of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, she has managed her daughters' Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kendall, and Kylie's career. She also is involved with the business management of her other daughters and son. She has been involved in the launch and an instrumental guiding force of their successful family brands including Kylie Cosmetics, Kylie Skin, KKW Beauty, KKW Fragrance, Skims, Good American, 818 Tequila, SKKN by Kim and Arthur George.[48]
Jenner opened a children's boutique in 2004 with her eldest daughter, Kourtney. The boutique was called "Smooch" and was open for almost six years before closing down in 2009.[13][49] In 2011, Jenner launched a clothing line, Kris Jenner Kollection with QVC.[50][51] Jenner had previously sold exercise equipment with QVC in the 1990s.[52]
In 2014, Jenner and her youngest daughter Kylie founded a company called Kylie Lip Kits (now Kylie Cosmetics) and partnered with Seed Beauty, a retail and product development company co-founded by siblings, John and Laura Nelson.[53] The company's first product Kylie Lip Kits, a liquid lipstick and lip liner, debuted on November 30, 2015.[54] The first 15,000 lip kits were produced by Seed Beauty and funded by Kylie at a cost of $250,000 from her modelling earnings.[55] The company was renamed to Kylie Cosmetics in February 2016, and production was increased to 500,000 kits. By the end of 2016, the company's total revenue was over $300 million. On May 9, 2018, Jenner and Kylie announced their collaboration called the Kris Kollection via Kylie's personal Instagram. The Mini Lip Set in the Kris Kollection, which includes eight mini liquid lipsticks, is aptly named "Momager", a title in which Jenner has personally taken on, and attempted to trademark, in recent years.[56] In addition to the "Momager" Lip Kit, the Kris Kollection includes lip glosses and a four pan pressed powder highlight/blush palette, which has created much controversy online with both good and bad reviews.[57] The collection was released just in time for Mother's Day.[58]
In April 2020, Jenner teamed up with daughter Kim to launch a perfume collaboration titled KKW x Kris.[59][60]
Jenner's autobiography, Kris Jenner... and All Things Kardashian, was released in November 2011.[61] She later wrote a cookbook entitled In the Kitchen with Kris: A Kollection of Kardashian-Jenner Family Favorites, which was released in October 2014.[62]
Jenner has often been referred to as the "matriarch" of the family.[63][64] Dimitri Ehrlich of Interview magazine called her "the matriarch of the Kardashian-Jenner brood" and the "21st century's preeminent female pop-cultural brand-builder."[65] Jenner explained her operations as a businesswoman in her memoir Kris Jenner...And All Things Kardashian: "I started to look at our careers like pieces on a chessboard...Every day, I woke up and walked into my office and asked myself, 'What move do you need to make today?' It was very calculated. My business decisions and strategies were very intentional, definite and planned to the nth degree."[51]
In 2023, Jenner appeared in the music video for American singer Meghan Trainor's new song "Mother", with Trainor describing her as "the mother of all mothers".[73][74]
Jenner's first marriage was to lawyer Robert Kardashian (who later became widely known for his early legal representation of O. J. Simpson) on July 8, 1978.[75][76] 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.[77]
In April 1991, one month after her divorce from Kardashian, Jenner married her second spouse, retired Olympian Bruce Jenner, who publicly came out as a transgender woman in 2015, taking the name Caitlyn.[78] They have two daughters together: Kendall (born 1995) and Kylie (born 1997);[79] in her autobiography, Jenner explained that she named her daughter Kendall Nicole after the late Nicole Brown Simpson.[80] By marriage to Bruce, Jenner also had four stepchildren: Burt, Cassandra "Casey", Brandon, and Brody.
The Jenners announced their separation in October 2013,[81][82] and on September 22, 2014, Kris filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.[83] The divorce became final on March 23, 2015, because of a six-month state legal requirement.[84][85] Jenner described the breakup with Caitlyn as "the most passive-aggressive thing", saying that while she had known of Caitlyn's use of hormones in the 1980s, "there wasn't a gender issue. Nobody mentioned a gender issue."[86]
Jenner found it progressively difficult to come to terms with Caitlyn's transition, which was fueled after comments Caitlyn made about her in a 2015 Vanity Fair article.[87] She also publicly disapproved of Caitlyn's memoir The Secrets of My Life released in 2017, criticizing the comments she made about her, their family and their marriage.[88]
As of 2025, Jenner has 14 grandchildren.[89][90] She has been in a relationship with Corey Gamble since around 2014.[91]
Jenner and her family suffered emotional turmoil during the O. J. Simpson trial (1994–1995), later described as the "Trial of the Century." Jenner was a good friend of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and Jenner's first husband, Robert Kardashian, was one of O.J. Simpson's "Dream Team" of defense lawyers during the trial.[92]
Jenner and Pastor Brad Johnson founded the California Community Church in 2012. It originally was called the Life Change Community Church, located in Agoura Hills, California.[94]
^Stated in Kris Jenner... and All Things Kardashian, 2011
^"Kris Jenner Explains Why Khloé Kardashian Named Her Baby True"Archived April 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. Elle. April 16, 2018. ("It turns out True has a lot of family history to it. 'FUN FACT,' Jenner wrote in all caps so you don't miss it. 'My Grandfather's name on my Dad's side was True Otis Houghton....my real Dad's name was Robert True Houghton...so I am so excited Khloe named her daughter True!!!'")
^ abJenner, Kris (2011). Kris Jenner... and All Things Kardashian. New York: Gallery Books and Karen Hunter Publishing. pp. 257–260. ISBN9781451646962.
^Jenner, Kris (2011). Kris Jenner... And All Things Kardashian. New York, NY: Gallery Books and Karen Hunter Publishing. pp. 145–165. ISBN9781451646962.
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