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I truly think once I got robbed, it took something out of me in the best way. All the things that really mattered to me then deeply — how many bags I had, what car I drove … I still like all that stuff, but it doesn’t matter. It could go away. For so long, people have tried to partner me with things. But this was the first thing where I thought, You know what? I want to go to law school. I want to help people. Let me work for the next ten years and build up my brands, and then one day, in ten years, just give up being Kim K. and become a lawyer. And now I’ve come to a realization about what I care about. No publicist would have ever told me to get into prison reform.
— Kim Kardashian West, in an interview with The Cut, explaining what really motivated her to want to follow in her father’s footsteps and study law. The reality TV star is currently planning to become a lawyer without going to law school and is completing the first year of a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco, California.
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