Citizen Kim biographer Jonathan Van Meter on the Kardashian legacy, Kris Jenner, and more

South China Morning Post - Nov 6, 2026

Kim Kardashian is arguably one of the most overexposed and most written-about women in the world. With more than 343 million followers on Instagram alone, the reality star turned fashion mogul and criminal justice activist is the ultimate oversharer. Yet, journalist Jonathan Van Meter, who first interviewed Kim in 2019 for a Vogue profile, describes her as “a puzzle that needs solving”. Van Meter is the author of Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future, a recently published biography of...

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