Kim Kardashian says she'd 'absolutely' give up her reality TV career to be a lawyer 'full-time'
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- Kim Kardashian said in a panel this week she would love to focus on being a lawyer "full-time."
- "I would totally spend more time doing that, cameras or no cameras," Kardashian said.
- Kardashian advocated for the release of Alice Marie Johnson, whose sentence was commuted in 2018.
If Kim Kardashian could have her way, she would give up the spotlight of reality TV to focus on being a lawyer "full-time."
During a panel at the 2023 TIME100 Summit on Tuesday, Kardashian opened up when asked about whether she would ever give up reality TV.
"There's a lot that's always on TV and a lot that's always out there, but I think my friends and my family know... we really cherish a lot of our private times," Kardashian said during the panel. "I would be just as happy being an attorney full-time and doing that."
"I always joke with my mom, who's my manager, I say, 'Kim K. is retiring, and I'm just going to be an attorney,'" she said, adding, "I would totally spend more time doing that, cameras or no cameras."
Since "Keeping Up With The Kardashian" debuted in 2007, Kardashian's career has exploded. She launched her Skims clothing brand in 2019 and her beauty brand SKKN BY KIM (formerly KKW Beauty) in 2017.
But Kardashian displayed a deep-seated interest in the law in 2017 when started advocating for Alice Marie Johnson, a former federal prisoner who was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts stemming from a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation. She was sentenced to life in prison in 1997.
Kardashian, for her part, devoted her time to freeing Johnson, even going so far as to meet with then-President Donald Trump about Johnson's situation. Trump commuted Johnson's sentence in 2018, and she was released.
Since then, Kardashian has advocated for other convicts and passed the "baby bar" exam in 2021.
The baby bar is a one-day test that covers areas including criminal law, contracts, and torts. Kardashian's law pursuits follow in the footsteps of her father, Robert Kardashian, who became widely-known for being a member of O.J. Simpson's legal team during Simpson's 1995 murder trial.
Despite Johnson's release, Kardashian shared during her TIME100 panel on Tuesday that the journey to becoming a lawyer has opened her eyes to "so much to be done."