What makes viewers feel attracted to this show is that seemingly very private stories of each person and each family are exposed in great detail on the small screen.

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Recently, reality TV star Kim Kardashian announced that her family’s reality show “Keeping Up With The Kardashian” will end in 2021 after 20 seasons. Currently, the show is in its 18th season. Season 19 will air later this year, season 20 will air in early 2021. This was shared by Kim Kardashian herself on her personal social media account.

This reality show has become the highlight of E!’s appeal to the public. With 266 episodes and 5 specials, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” has created 12 additional mini-series, which have aired alongside the main series, bringing the public countless dramatic moments of family life and also no shortage of meticulous and elaborate staging and calculations.

What makes viewers feel attracted to this show is that seemingly very private stories of each person and each family are exposed in great detail on the small screen, with no shortage of arguments, breakdowns, conflicts, betrayals, but also joy, laughter, and warm moments of a family.

Most of the Kardashian – Jenner family members are now considered… entertainment stars just because they appeared on this popular reality show.

Behind the show is the main creative hand of Kris Jenner – mother of 5 daughters and Kim Kardashian – a key member in the making of the reality TV series.

The authenticity and staging in this reality TV show are difficult to distinguish, and in reality this show is a combination of both truth and staging, “seasoned with salt and pepper”.

From love affairs, work, to childbirth, affairs, breakups, divorces and life after divorce, all aspects of the lives of the Kardashian – Jenner family members have taken place in front of the public eye for nearly 14 years.

Now that the show is about to come to an end, let’s take a look back at the stories that have captured the most attention throughout the journey of the show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”…

Kourtney and Kim fight
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In the 18th episode, sisters Kourtney and Kim got into a fight after Kim commented that Kourtney didn’t care about the family’s common work, even though it benefited each member.

The argument quickly escalated into a physical altercation, with Kim punching and kicking her sister, while Kourtney scratched Kim with her fingernails. Khloe stepped in after seeing things getting serious. After the fight aired on television, Kourtney announced that she would no longer be participating in her family’s reality TV show.

Tristan Thompson was unfaithful to Khloe
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In season 16, Khloe once again had to face the fact that the man she was with, soccer player Tristan Thompson, was unfaithful while she was pregnant. Khloe decided to forgive him but then revealed that Tristan Thompson was having an affair with a family friend.

This incident made Khloe unable to accept it anymore and decided to break up even though they just had a child together. Surrounding this breakup, Khloe had relatives and friends by her side to support her.

Kim recalls the Paris robbery
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In the 13th episode, Kim recounted the horror of being robbed of valuables by a gang of armed thieves who broke into her hotel room in Paris. Kim was alone in the room at the time.

She was in Paris for fashion week in October 2016, and was held at gunpoint, tied up, gagged, and thrown into a bathtub. While recalling the horrific incident, Kim tearfully told her sisters about her fear of being murdered or kidnapped at the time.

Mrs. Kris criticized Kim because the marriage only lasted… 72 days.
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In season 12, when Kris bought her son Rob a house, her daughters Khloe and Kim quickly reacted because they thought she was biased and spoiled Rob because her children all had to learn to be independent and earn their own money to buy what they wanted, only Rob was given such privileges.

But Kris didn’t feel guilty about her daughter’s criticism at all, explaining that she had seen her daughters make too many mistakes, like Kim’s marriage that lasted only 72 days, but she still calmly walked away as if it was no big deal. Kris’s sudden attack shocked Kim.

Kourtney cries about divorce and child custody
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This happened in season 11. Nine years after starting a relationship with Scott Disick in 2006 and having three children together, Kourtney – Kris’s eldest daughter – came to the difficult decision to end the marriage: “My husband and I have tried many options, but this is the final choice. It really doesn’t benefit anyone to live in pain.”

Both Kourtney and Scott are committed to living their lives well and will actively share in raising their children.

Bruce Jenner shares with his children about his transgender plans
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In season 10, Bruce Jenner, Kris’s second husband and father of model Kendall Jenner and entrepreneur Kylie Jenner, revealed his plans to transition to his children. He later became Caitlyn Jenner.

During this difficult conversation, Kylie and Kendall both tear up over the difficulty of accepting such a drastic change in the father figure they still love and respect.

Khloe reveals divorce from Lamar Odom
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The incident happened during season 9. In 2009, Khloe married basketball player Lamar Odom after only a month of dating. The relationship between the two began to collapse when Lamar Odom cheated, Khloe cried and shared with her sisters about her intention to divorce after all her threats and warnings failed to change her husband.

Despite trying in many ways to save the marriage, Khloe did not receive cooperation from her husband, which made her decide to end things with Lamar Odom.

Rapper Kanye West’s proposal
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In part 9, on the occasion of Kim’s 33rd birthday, rapper Kanye West meticulously organized a surprise event at Oracle Park Stadium, San Francisco, USA. At that time, a few months after the couple welcomed their first child, Kanye took Kim to the stadium, where a choir was performing Kim’s favorite song at that time – “Young and Beautiful”.

Kanye proposed to Kim and received her consent, at this time, family members started running out to congratulate the couple’s joy.

Kim’s wedding to rapper Kanye West
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The wedding was featured in season nine. Less than a year after finalizing her divorce from basketball player Kris Humphries, Kim married rapper Kanye West in Italy in May 2014. The lavish ceremony was attended by nearly 200 guests, including family, friends, and their then 11-month-old daughter North.

Kim’s wedding to basketball player Kris Humphries
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In the sixth season, Kim married basketball player Kris Humphries, which was considered a special highlight of the show, attracting a lot of attention from the media and the public at that time. At that time, the special episode about Kim and Kris’s wedding attracted 10.5 million viewers, setting a record for viewership ratings for the E! channel.

Although this marriage was very short-lived, lasting only 72 days, because shortly after, the bride and groom… separated, the public at that time was still very excited about Kim’s grand and lavish wedding.

Kim lost her expensive diamond earrings.
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In part 6, while on an island vacation with her family, Kim’s then-fiancé, basketball player Kris Humphries, teased her by throwing her into the ocean, causing her to lose one of her $75,000 diamond earrings.

At that time, Kim was so heartbroken that she burst into tears. Meanwhile, her mother and sister Kylie were swimming in the ocean while watching the incident. Her sister Kourtney even commented when she saw Kim going “crazy”: “Hey Kim, there are people in this world who are facing death, what is this?”

Mrs. Kris praised her son, “You did a great job, honey.”
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In part 1 of the show, Kris shocked everyone with the words “You did great, honey”, when she was cheering Kim on during her nude photoshoot for Playboy magazine in 2007. Present at the photoshoot with her daughter and witnessing Kim taking daring photos, Kris took out her camera to take souvenir photos and cheered her on with the words: “You did great, honey”.

This situation has left viewers stunned by Ms. Kris’s perspective. Her cold style, putting economic interests first, and constantly generating calculations and ideas to attract the attention of the media and the public has shaped Ms. Kris’s style.

A mother and business manager to her reality TV star children, Kris is the brains behind the show Keeping Up With The Kardashians and the character who coined the term “momager,” a portmanteau of “mom” and “manager.”