For over a decade, Keeping Up with the Kardashian fans have been delightfully tuning in every week to watch the funny and entertaining drama that the Kardashian-Jenner family seems to get themselves into.
Over the years, fans have seen a noticeable change in each one of the family members as they have grown and matured. Fans have also noted that they feel that Kim Kardashian West has changed more than any member of the family. From her wardrobe to her more somber personality, there is no denying that the aspiring lawyer is not the same person that she was when the show started in 2007.
Many fans believe that her husband, Kanye West, is the reason for her drastic personality change. And recently, fans have noticed that the entire family seemed to change whenever West came into the picture. Did the iconic rapper really make the Kardashian-Jenner clan change so drastically?
The Kardashian-Jenner clan seemed like one, big, happy family in the beginning
When the show first aired in 2007, fans were intrigued to watch a wealthy blended family navigate their way through life. It was like the Brady Bunch — if the Brady Bunch lived in a multi-million dollar mansion and liked to drink and party all of the time. The family definitely wasn’t perfect, and they occasionally fought with one another, but overall, they did seem to truly care about each other.
Every member of the family seemed like they were always ready to have a good time; even the family’s matriarch, Kris Jenner. For example, in one episode, Jenner and her daughter Khloe Kardashian decided to go to a local bar in LA to have a few drinks. After a while, Jenner and Kardashian decided that it would be fun to go to Kim Kardashian’s house and secretly cover it with toilet paper and shaving cream.
Kardashian was not impressed with the TP job that the mother-daughter duo did in her home, but the whole experience was very funny and entertaining to watch.
The Kardashian-Jenner family had their fair share of hard times
Every member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan may be ridiculously rich, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t still have their fair share of bad times just like everyone else.
Over the years, fans watched as Kris Jenner and Caitlyn (formerly known as Bruce) Jenner go from being a picture-perfect couple to acting like two strangers who were going through a divorce. The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2015. Then, the entire family had to come to terms with Caitlyn’s transformation.
Another thing that devastated the entire family was when Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in her Paris hotel in 2017. She had later said in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres that although the robbery was traumatizing, she believed that it helped to change the way she looks at life and that she is no longer as materialistic as she used to be.