You guys. Kim Kardashian just made a major life announcement during a cover interview for this month’s Vogue, and it is that…she’s becoming a lawyer. Legit. She is studying to become a lawyer.
“I had to think long and hard about this,” she said. The choice came from the combination of “seeing a really good result” with Alice Marie Johnson while simultaneously feeling like she couldn’t help enough. “The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency, and I’m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people and I just sat there, like, Oh, shit. I need to know more.
“I would say what I had to say, about the human side and why this is so unfair. But I had attorneys with me who could back that up with all the facts of the case. It’s never one person who gets things done; it’s always a collective of people and I’ve always known my role, but I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society. I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more.”
Not only did Kim help bring attention to Alice’s case, but she’d actually also been working on criminal justice reform for months before that, visiting prisons, working with activists, and petitioning governors.
Van Jones, one of the activists Kim worked with, was in the Oval Office when she met with Donald Trump.
“I watched with my own eyes Trump confess to having tremendous fears of letting somebody out of prison and that person going and doing something terrible and the impact that would have on his political prospects,” he said. “He was visibly nervous about it. And I watched Kim Kardashian unleash the most effective, emotionally intelligent intervention that I’ve ever seen in American politics.”