Kim Kardashian has parlayed reality TV stardom into a ten-figure fortune, the vast majority of which comes from her stake in Skims, her shapewear business.

Skims is worth $5 billion after a 2025 funding round. The company's investors include billionaires Stephen Mandel, Daniel Sundheim and Josh Kushner, who is Ivanka Trump's brother-in-law.

Skims began as an online, direct-to-consumer brand, but has grown to 20 stores in the U.S. and Mexico with plans to become a mainly brick-and-mortar business in the coming years.

Kardashian sold 20% of her KKW Beauty to French beauty giant Coty in 2021, but later shut down the business and launched SKKN By Kim. Coty divested its stake to Skims in March 2025.

Kardashian divorced musician Kanye West in 2022. They share custody of their four children, and Kardashian reportedly paid $23 million to keep their Axel Vervoordt-designed Hidden Hills mansion.

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The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Kim Kardashian

Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.

The immense fortune of Kim Kardashian, linked to Fashion & Retail and 'Shapewear, skincare', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 13 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 0.8 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.

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