Kim's recent projects include launching a perfume, working as the producer of an E! reality series, The Spin Crowd, and writing an autobiography with sisters Kourtney and Khloé entitled Kardashian Konfidential.

Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of late attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner (née Houghton). She is of Armenian descent on her father's side (her paternal great-grandparents immigrated to Los Angeles), and of Scottish, Dutch, and of distant( 3% or 1/36)Native American ancestry on her mother's side.

Kardashian has two sisters, Kourtney and Khloé, and one brother, Robert. She has stepbrothers Burton Jenner, Brandon Jenner, and reality TV star Brody Jenner, stepsister Casey Jenner, and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.

She attended Marymount High School. During high school, Kardashian worked at her father's music marketing firm, Movie Tunes.

Her first acting role was in the television series Beyond the Break. She then starred in the 2008 disaster film spoof Disaster Movie as Lisa. Kardashian appeared in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Benefits". She will appear on the Season 3 premiere of the series 90210 with her sisters.According to E! Kim makes $5.545 million a year Khloe Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian. They will play themselves.

Kardashian is one of the stars of the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians along with her two sisters, mother, brother, half-sisters, and stepfather.

Kardashian was one of 13 participants on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Current DWTS Champion Mark Ballas. Kardashian was the third contestant voted off the show on September 30, 2008, finishing in 11th place overall.

Kardashian is the producer of SPINdustry, a reality television show about Command PR, a New York City public relations firm, run by Jonathan Cheban and Simon Huck. The show follows them as they settle into their new offices in Los Angeles. Kardashian is friends with both, specifically Jonathan, and frequently appears on the show.

Kardashian appeared as a guest judge during Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model.

She also made a guest star appearance on CBS' CSI: NY with Vanessa Minnillo on December 16, 2009.