'You don't think I feel bad?': Kim Kardashian breaks down over 72-day marriage
Failed ... Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries.
Kim Kardashian broke down in tears on her own TV show while discussing her failed marriage to sports star Kris Humphries.
The socialite split from the basketball player last month, filing for divorce just 72 days after the couple's lavish televised wedding.
Kardashian has kept her feelings largely out of the spotlight since the split, but in a new episode of family reality TV show Kourtney & Kim Take New York, she is seen sobbing as she talks about her marriage.
Speaking to her sister Kourtney, Kim cries uncontrollably as she says, "He fell in love with me and I fell in love with him and now my feelings have changed ... And I failed at this. You don't think I feel bad?"
Another scene shows the brunette beauty embroiled in a tense discussion with Humphries as they talk about whether to live in his home state of Minnesota.
Kardashian says, "How am I going to have my career and live in Minnesota?" while the sportsman replies, "Maybe by the time you have kids, no one will probably care about you."
Kourtney & Kim Take New York airs in America on Sunday.
In light of the divorce filing just 72 days after marrying Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian’s wedding has definitely come under scrutiny, but now one of the performers at the event is saying he felt something was definitely wrong at the nuptials.
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"Honestly, in retrospect, I've got to admit it didn't feel right," Grammy nominated saxaphone player, Dave Koz, tells the Corpus Christi Caller Times.
Koz was at the highly publicized Santa Barbara event in August, which eventually aired on a two-part special on E! in early-October. He performed his song, "Know You By Heart” and "Here Comes The Bride" as the wedding party walked down the aisle.
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"I've played a lot of weddings,” he recalls. “Of course, this is a television show. But it felt like it was scene from a wedding, like a movie and not an actual wedding, if that makes sense. Who knows whether they were in love or not, but it just didn't seem to have authenticity in that moment for me."
Funk group Earth, Wind and Fire and singer Robin Thicke also performed at the event. The E! two-part special attracted more than eight million viewers combined over the two nights.
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Kardashian’s quickie divorce caused many to rehash accusations that the wedding was a hoax and placed the entire Kardashian family in the spotlight as they defended the earnestness of the relationship.
Kim couldn’t escape the scrutiny during an unfortunately timed business trip to Australia the same week she filed for divorce and cut the trip short. She soon traveled to Atlanta to shoot her scenes for the Tyler Perry movie, The Marriage Counselor.
Boycotting Kim Kardashian like trying to turn Titanic
Now that Occupy movements are packing up their tents after worldwide protests against the fat cats and power brokers who control society’s wealth, the attention of those concerned about social justice logically moves to other targets.
Women’s rights? Nope. Racial discrimination? Nope. Homophobia? Nope.
What’s really generating heat in the online world of unprofessional griping is — you guessed it — zaftig socialite Kim Kardashian, whose 72-day marriage to a lanky basketball player has the online community crying for cultural restitution.
“In a grassroots effort, we have collected thousands of signatures for a petition asking E! Entertainment to remove the Kardashian suite of shows (including Keeping Up With the Kardashians) from their programming,’’ activist Cyndy Snider told media amid allegations Kardashian’s lavish, profit-generating wedding may have been faked.
“We feel these shows are mostly staged and place an emphasis on vanity, greed, promiscuity, vulgarity and over-the-top conspicuous consumption. There is no particular religious or political platform behind our disgust; we are just finally fed up.’’
Hear, hear. Speaking truth to power, or in this case, to a rubber-lipped marketing machine whose skill at self-promotion has placed her in the same “Famous for being famous” strata as Paris Hilton, Kevin Federline, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Octomom and the entire cast of Jersey Shore (especially that illiterate boozehound, Snooki).
And yet, much as I’d like to champion this noble backlash against celebrities whose fame is out of proportion to their talent, there’s a nagging feeling I can’t shake — a sense that the skulking enablers who have fuelled their rise to power with such gross impunity is, oh yeah, us.
“Kim Kardashian is not famous for being famous,’’ points out Bob Thompson, a pop culture prof at Syracuse University, noting the abundance of “pretty rich heiresses” who don’t have their own reality shows or fragrance lines.
“Now, it may be that her skill is one that’s harder to identify than a prize-winning scientist, but she’s good at what she does: getting people to pay attention to her.”
And so we do, whether the 31-year-old celebutante is hawking her cheesy Kardashian Glamour Tan, clothing line, workout video, perfume, autobiography, Playboy covers or the leaked sex tape that launched her career in 2007.
“Kim Kardashian has made a mockery of American culture,’’ rage the anonymous publishers at boycottkim.com, “doing whatever it takes to extend her 15 minutes of fame so she can selfishly profit from her celebrity status.’’
Sure, we complain, and rightly so, but democracy is a tricky business.
And while the activists among us campaign for a more meaningful, less materialistic society, Kardashian’s celebrity-obsessed followers — and don’t underestimate their numbers — have quietly shoved Paris Hilton aside to crown their Betty Boopesque leader as an alluring symbol of cultural Armageddon.
And not all of them are aware which side they’re on.
“I am so sick of seeing Kim on the front of magazines,’’ writes Janet Boyd of Florida at boycottkim.com. “I subscribe to seven magazines, most all entertainment, and every time I go to the mail box, if I see Kim’s face on the cover I throw the magazine away without even looking any further. I just wish everyone would say NO to Kim!’’
Gee whiz — seven magazines? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
And then there’s Kardashian herself, who vows to fight AIDS, supports recognition of the Armenian genocide, then reveals her true priorities when she tells media in her little girl warble, “I hate when women wear the wrong foundation colour. It might be the worst thing on the planet when they wear their makeup too light.’’
Outraged? Mystified? Fed up?
Go ahead — voice your dismay, sign petitions, start your own Occupy Hollywood movement. Just don’t expect anything much to change.
“Occupying Hollywood would be like occupying the weather,” points out Thompson, noting there’s no such thing as a “Kardashian tax” and most celebrities get rich because we line their pockets.
“People have been complaining about it as long as it’s existed — it’s an abstraction. I don’t think we really want it to go away.
“If Hollywood shut down tomorrow, in eight months or so people would really miss it. They’d be saying, ‘Please, please, please come back, and bring Kim Kardashian with you!’ ’’