It’s tough to imagine a world before Kris Jenner was the ultimate ‘materfamilias’ and ‘momager’, but such a world existed. Kris wasn’t always the head of the Kardashian-Jenner empire. Once she was an employee at a doughnut shop and later as an airline steward. Here is what Kris did before she became the popular momager today.
As a teenager, Jenner reportedly was working as an employee at a doughnut shop before working at a clothing store opened by her mother and grandmother. In an interview, Kris said that working for her mother and grandmother made her learn how to run a business.
In her early twenties, Jenner worked as a junior flight attendant for American Airlines before marrying Robert Kardashian in 1978 and planning a family together.
When Kris and Robert separated in 1991, she married former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner later that year with the couple welcoming two more kids, Kylie and Kendall. At this point, Kris had started her career as a motivational speaker. After she married Caitlyn, Kris’s life changed fully, she started acting as Caitlyn’s manager, and together the couple made infomercials for exercise tools.
After years, Kris took her idea of a reality TV show on her family to E, producer Ryan Seacrest. Kris told in an interview, “Everybody thinks that they could create an epic drama series on their lives, but it’s the thing that I felt I didn’t even have to think about. It would go so natural.”
Seacrest, fortunately, was on the lookout for a new show after the success of The Osbournes, he told.
Seacrest had seen The Osbournes and thought of himself— because he had a production company — he thought they should find something in this area. And at that point they had heard that Kris was interested in doing something like that with her family, so it was him and another guy at the company. He just had to buy a video camera for this shoot to go to a barbecue they used to have Sunday. And He remembers thinking to himself, ‘Is it worth spending so much money on it.
Well, still we all went and we shot a barbecue on a Sunday with the family. Everyone was together — as crazy and fun-loving as they are, and they were pushing each other in the pool, and when I came back and saw the tape. And then I thought, ‘Oh my God, we have to show this to E. That time we had no idea it would become the dad of pop culture business that it is now.”
Source: Cosmopolitan