It’s 5:51 a.m., and Kris Jenner wants to talk. The text delivering this news arrives before the crack of dawn, but Jenner has already been up for hours. “She’d love to do soon,” her representative says in a message to a Variety reporter.
Jenner hasn’t taken many days off since 2007, when her family’s show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” premiered on E! and became a cultural phenomenon — making her and her five daughters (you know them, from oldest to youngest, as Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall and Kylie) into mononymic media moguls with their own business empires, with ventures ranging from cosmetics to liquor to fragrances to shapewear. In all, the Kardashians have dominated both popular culture and business, and are estimated to be worth more than $5 billion. But in September 2020, the family decided not to renew its deal with E!, and “Keeping Up” came to an end last June after 20 seasons. Even so, Jenner hasn’t slowed down.
“I was up at 4 so I could have my coffee and get dressed,” a chipper Jenner says over the phone. She’s calling from her second home in Palm Springs, a midcentury fortress that she scooped up for $12 million before the pandemic, where she’s shooting scenes for the upcoming reality series “The Kardashians,” along with her boyfriend, Corey Gamble, and her fun-loving daughter Khloé. “We’re filming all day,” she explains, “and I had to get up so I could watch the Prada show,” in Milan, “that Kendall was walking in — as a redhead! Did you see?” The self-described “mama bear” says her first-born, Kourtney, has just left the desert with her fiancé, drummer Travis Barker, while her youngest, Kylie, is coming soon with her 4-year-old daughter, Stormi, and newborn son, Wolf, whom she shares with her partner, rapper Travis Scott.
“It makes me so happy,” says Jenner, now a grandmother of 11. “There’s nothing better than a new baby.”
And she’s about to…