Kim Kardashian Says She’ll Be a Qualified Attorney in Two Weeks — Plans to Become a Trial Lawyer

Real­i­ty star and busi­ness mogul Kim Kar­dashi­an says she’s just weeks away from offi­cial­ly becom­ing a qual­i­fied attor­ney, reveal­ing she’s seri­ous about leav­ing behind her celebri­ty image to pur­sue a full-fledged legal career.

The 45-year-old SKIMS founder made the com­ments on BBC’s The Gra­ham Nor­ton Show on Fri­day, Octo­ber 24, appear­ing along­side her All’s Fair co-star Sarah Paul­son.

“I have a few projects com­ing up — I film my first movie in Jan­u­ary, and we are hop­ing for a sea­son 2 of All’s Fair,” Kar­dashi­an said. “I always want to be grow­ing, curi­ous and evolv­ing, and I want to see wher­ev­er that takes me.”

But amid the glitz of Hol­ly­wood and the con­stant head­lines, Kar­dashi­an made it clear that her real pas­sion is the law.

“I will be qual­i­fied in two weeks. I hope to prac­tice law. Maybe in 10 years, I think I’ll give up being Kim K and be a tri­al lawyer. That’s what I real­ly want,” she said.

From Reality TV to the Courtroom

While crit­ics often dis­miss Kar­dashi­an as a real­i­ty star, she’s qui­et­ly been work­ing toward her law degree for years — com­plet­ing California’s Law Office Study Pro­gram, an alter­na­tive path that allows aspir­ing lawyers to appren­tice under a licensed attor­ney instead of attend­ing a tra­di­tion­al law school.

Her spon­sor and men­tor, attor­ney Jes­si­ca Jack­son, praised her extra­or­di­nary com­mit­ment:

“Over the course of this pro­gram, Kim has ded­i­cat­ed 18 hours a week, 48 weeks a year for six straight years. That’s a total of 5,184 hours of legal study, that’s time she carved out while rais­ing four chil­dren, run­ning busi­ness­es, film­ing tele­vi­sion shows and show­ing up in court­rooms to advo­cate for oth­ers,” Jack­son said.

Kar­dashi­an, who shares four chil­dren — North, Saint, Chica­go, and Psalm — with ex-hus­band Kanye “Ye” West, began her legal stud­ies in 2018. She passed California’s noto­ri­ous­ly dif­fi­cult “baby bar” exam in 2021 after sev­er­al attempts and went on to take the Mul­ti­state Pro­fes­sion­al Respon­si­bil­i­ty Exam (MPRE) ear­li­er this year, a nec­es­sary step before sit­ting for the final bar exam.

A New Direction — and a New Image

Her legal pur­suits are part of a broad­er effort to rein­vent her­self beyond fame and fash­ion. Kardashian’s inter­est in crim­i­nal jus­tice reform — inspired by her late father, Robert Kar­dashi­an, a defense attor­ney who worked on the O.J. Simp­son case — has led her to advo­cate for clemen­cy in sev­er­al high-pro­file cas­es.

Now, she’s look­ing to merge that pas­sion with a real court­room career.

Kar­dashi­an admit­ted that bal­anc­ing busi­ness, moth­er­hood, act­ing, and study­ing hasn’t been easy.

“I’ve learned you can. It was men­tal­ly chal­leng­ing hav­ing to do it all, but I loved it,” she told Nor­ton.

Her All’s Fair co-star Sarah Paul­son added:

“The truth of the mat­ter is that she made me feel like a slack­er. She’s run­ning a busi­ness, she’s look­ing after four chil­dren, she’s study­ing for the law. She real­ly is an impres­sive per­son.”

Beyond the Cameras

For many Amer­i­cans, Kim Kardashian’s trans­for­ma­tion from tabloid icon to aspir­ing attor­ney is unex­pect­ed — but it also reflects a rare moment of focus and grit in a celebri­ty world often dri­ven by van­i­ty and dra­ma.

If she pass­es the bar, she’ll not only have earned her license the hard way — she’ll have proven that deter­mi­na­tion and dis­ci­pline still count for some­thing, even in Hol­ly­wood.

“Maybe in 10 years, I think I’ll give up being Kim K and be a tri­al lawyer,” she said. “That’s what I real­ly want.”

It remains to be seen whether the star can tran­si­tion from TV sets to court­rooms, but for now, she seems deter­mined to trade spot­lights for statutes — and glitz for grit.