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Anita Hill is an attorney from Oklahoma that spoke against Supreme Court’s Clarence Thomas in 1991. Anita Hill spoke out regarding sexual-harassment she experiences while  Clarence Thomas was her supervisor. This is such an important artifact of women’s pop culture for several reasons. For one, a woman speaking against a male in a power position is tough on its own. It leaves room for vulnerability and ridicule because of what comes with speaking out against a male figure. What made this artifact specifically an iconic moment, was that not only was it women versus male, but it was a black women speaking out against a black male, who was getting covered by a multitude of white men. This offered a greater conversation regarding how black women were treated, and how women were treated in general when speaking about sexual assault.

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Not only was Anita Hill under fire for being a woman, but she was a black woman. She suffered two pillars of oppression, that ultimately played a part in the outcome of her testimony. I find the story to be really disheartening but a really good point in history for women who speak out against sexual assault. Anita Hill only spoke out against Clarence Thomas when she was approached , once he was appointed to the Supreme Court. She did not write an “expose”. Anita spoke out because a man guilty of sexual-harassment was being put in an extreme power position in America, so she felt it was her civil duty to say something.  Almost 30 years later judge Clarence Thomas is still on the Supreme Court. Anita Hill is a great example of how a male in a power position can undermine truths of a victim.

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An article regarding how this testimony shaped out in the media.

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In October 1991, Americans were riveted by the spectacle of an all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee questioning Anita Hill, the African-American law professor who had accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.

TV viewers, both male and female, watched in increasing discomfort as the senators asked Hill about large-breasted women, a porn star named Long Dong Silver and pubic hair on a Coke can, among other previously unthinkable subjects for a Senate committee hearing.

But for women, Hill's testimony would have special significance, as it was the first time someone had so publicly shared her account of workplace harassment -something that so many of them had experienced.

Though the committee would eventually confirm Thomas, making him only the second Black man to serve on the Supreme Court, the impact of Hill's televised testimony would reverberate dramatically across the nation, with lasting consequences that endure today.

"I think women saw play out, in the most human terms, Anita Hill-credible and very much reflecting the experiences of so many other women-being demeaned, being dismissed and being mistreated by an array of male senators," says Marcia Greenberger, founder and co-president emerita of the National Women's Law Center. "And when they reflected upon it at the end of the hearings, their anger began to rise, and their determination to do something about it began to increase."

Both Thomas and Hill had risen from poor rural childhoods in segregated America, graduated from Yale Law School and launched promising legal careers in Washington, D.C. Their paths converged at the U.S. Department of Education in 1981, when Thomas hired Hill to be his special assistant in the department's Office of Civil Rights.

Shortly after that, according to Hill, Thomas began harassing her, a pattern that would continue after Thomas left his post to become chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and Hill moved with him to continue as his assistant.

Hill, who left Washington in 1983 and became a law professor in her native Oklahoma, was initially reluctant to come forward with her allegations against Thomas. But in the late summer of 1991, she was contacted by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who had heard rumors of possible misconduct by Thomas against at least one female employee in his past. After a three-day FBI investigation led the White House to determine the allegations were "unfounded," the reporter Nina Totenberg of NPR learned of the FBI report and revealed Hill's accusations to the public for the first time.

On October 11, Hill testified before the committee that Thomas had asked her out repeatedly and that even after she refused, often talked to her in graphic detail about sex. Throughout the brutally uncomfortable questioning by senators, Hill retained her composure, even when forced to repeat again and again the most disturbing and embarrassing parts of Thomas' alleged harassment. Years later, the committee's Democratic chairman, Joe Biden, would publicly apologize to Hill for not protecting her from his fellow senators' grilling.

Thomas vehemently denied Hill's allegations and invoked racial discrimination, calling the hearing "a national disgrace...a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves." imagining Thomas' harassment, or of committing "flat-out perjury," in the words of Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah even accused her of borrowing the Coke can incident from the 1971 novel The Exorcist. Despite Hill's testimony, and that of four corroborating witnesses who said she talked with them about Thomas' behavior at the time, the Senate voted to confirm Thomas 52-48, the narrowest margin in nearly a century.

Yet Hill's testimony had an immediate impact in other ways. "She sparked conversations among women that they had never had before about experiences that they realized were shared by so many others," Greenberger says. "This was the first time that they saw they weren't alone, both by her telling her own story, and then by their discussing their stories with their friends and family."

Phones at the National Women's Law Center began ringing off the hook, Greenberger remembers, as women sought legal advice to deal with the sexual harassment that they had faced. Claims of sexual harassment filed with the EEOC shot up, and Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which gave victims of workplace sexual harassment more legal recourse. State laws began to change as well, and anti-sexual harassment programs became the norm in offices across the country.

In 1992, the year after Hill testified, a record number of female politicians were elected to office, part of what became known as the " Year of the Woman." Twenty-four women won election to the House of Representatives (which more than doubled the total number of female representatives at the time) and four women were elected to the Senate, bringing the total number to six.

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, who first won election during that momentous year, would become the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee by 2018, when the committee confronted another charge of sexual misconduct, made by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, against another Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

Through the intervening decades, sexual misconduct has figured prominently in U.S. politics and culture. President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about his relationship with the young White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Donald Trump, as a presidential candidate, was exposed as making lewd advances on women with the public release of a recorded tape. And Americans have seen the rise of the #MeToo movement, alongside the revelations of sexual misconduct and harassment on the part of numerous powerful men in entertainment, politics, business and other fields.

"I think that #MeToo has roots in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearing, in Anita Hill's extraordinary testimony, and in the strength of her character," says Greenberg. "On the other hand, I also think that progress is not always linear, and there are fits and starts along the way.

According to Greenberger, Hill is an "icon" and a "national leader," who still has an important role to play in the changed America her testimony helped create. For her part, Hill wrote in the New York Times about the high stakes that accompany the Kavanaugh hearings, and her advice for how the Senate Judiciary Committee could handle them differently than in 1991.

"With years of hindsight, mounds of evidence of the prevalence and harm that sexual violence causes individuals and our institutions," she wrote, "as well as a Senate with more women than ever, 'not getting it' isn't an option for our elected representatives. In 2018, our senators must get it right."

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Britney Spears is a pop-culture icon who is known by many as “The Princess of Pop". She became very famous at a young age. She was born in Mississippi, and slowly became “Britney Spears “, after being in the Mickey Mouse clubhouse, and dropping hit singles and music videos. She once was considered as the most famous person in the world.

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Images of Britney Spears shaving her head during a breakdown in 2007 were captured by more than 70 photographers, and became famous around the world, almost overnight.

In a new Channel 5 documentary, Britney Spears: Breaking Point, a tattoo artist who was there the night this happened, has claimed Britney confided in her about why she did it.

After leaving a rehabilitation clinic in Antigua, Britney had gone to the home of her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, asking to see their children, Sean and Jayden. When he refused, Britney drove to a nearby hair salon and asked hairdresser, Esther Tognozz to shave her head. In the documentary Tognozz states that she tried to persuade her not to, but as soon as her back was turned, Britney had grabbed the clippers and begun shaving her own head.

"She had two bodyguards supposedly keeping an eye out to make sure the paparazzi were not getting any pictures," claimed Tognozz, but reportedly more than 70 paparazzi were still able to take pictures through the windows of the salon as the incident took place, while her security did nothing.

From there, Britney went to a nearby tattoo parlour and asked tattoo artist, Emily Wynne-Hughes for an inking of a woman's lips, followed by a cross. Wynne-Hughes, who has never spoken about that night before told interviewers for the documentary, "[I heard] an insane roaring sound outside. I wasn't sure what was happening, if there was a riot outside and then the flashes came."

"I noticed her hair was gone. I remember asking here, 'why do you shave your head?'"

She claims Britney told her, "It was, you know, 'I just don't want anybody, anybody touching my head. I don't want anyone touching my hair. I'm sick of people touching my hair.'"

Many have linked this to the idea that Britney wanted control of her life and image, after reports claimed that music executives had been in control of every detail of her appearance since she first became famous at the age of 16.

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Speaking about her bodyguards, Wynne-Hughes backed up Tognozz claims that they didn't intervene, "It just didn't seem like they cared very much. I've felt this insane sense of anxiety and energy that felt so negative... It just seemed like everybody was waiting for the crash to happen."

Channel 5's Britney Spears: Breaking Point is available to watch here.
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The upsetting reason Britney Spears shaved her head in 2007

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Images of Britney Spears shaving her head during a breakdown in 2007 were captured by more than 70 photographers, and became famous around the world, almost overnight. In a new Channel 5 documentary, Britney Spears: Breaking Point, a tattoo artist who was there the night this happened, has claimed Britney confided in her about why she did it.

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Britney Spears is known for one of her most iconic moments, her infamous shaving paparazzi photos.

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These photos, and paparazzi videos, show Britney Spears acting erratically in front of the paparazzi after shaving her head. She got very upset with the paparazzi and was screaming at them erratically. The media took this as Brittney having a psychotic break, and using too much drugs.

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What the media didn’t show is that Britney was the most famous person in the world, having a pressure that  no individual,  besides her , could ever comprehend. Brittany also was starting to get placed under harsh rules within her freedom as an individual. As a human being if you do not have normal rights every day, like privacy , you would go crazy.

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Britney Spears is a perfect example of a young girl that was taken advantage of, manipulated, and harassed by Hollywood and the media . The result of these actions against her being that she shaved her head, in doing so that was looked at as “wild and crazy.” But in fact she was just a young girl suffering from the pressures of being known by every single person in this universe, and having family pressures as well. The harassment young celebrities get from paparazzi is not OK, and there should be harsher rules in place that regulate the degree paparazzi can invade space.

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Rhianna is a world-wide music artist, originally born in Barbados. Fenty Beauty was an important milestone in the makeup industry.  Fenty Beauty was launched in 2017 by the infamous Rihanna. The basis of this makeup line was to provide inclusivity across various skin tones. In 2017, Tart Beauty came out with a foundation line that only had seven skin tones available. Shortly after this Fenty Beauty was launched that included 50 shades of foundation. Rihanna launching such an inclusive base brand, sparked conversation about the lack of diversity most makeup brands had. The outcome  of Rihanna launching 50 shades, showed  that black women are only normally offered 2 to 3 shades when they pick out their foundation color. The reality of this is that black women have several different ranges of skin tones. There is no such thing as one size fits all when it comes to skin tone. Often there is a wide range of color for white people, and often black women are left to adjust. Rihanna coming out with her brand completely shifted the tone of what color range is acceptable for a makeup brand. It showed that inclusivity ranges far, and it should not be considered inclusive just because a couple black shades are available. Inclusivity means all shades of black are available, and Rhianna set the tone for this. Now, if makeup brands lack inclusivity, they are often compared to Fenty, because Rhianna set a new standard for the makeup industry in 2017.

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Insight on Anita's opinions regarding the Senate's fail to recognize harassment within workspace.

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Kim Kardashian, born and raised in California, is a woman who is a very popular symbol in the 2000s. Kim Kardashian is a reality star, who started off as Paris Hilton‘s assistant, and is known for scandalous behaviors such as a sex tape. Kim Kardashian set the tone for a lot of the things in the 2000s pop culture era.

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Anita Hill documentary, that gives the full story of her speaking out in front of the Supreme Court.

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A profile of Anita Hill, the African-American lawyer who challenged Clarence Thomas' nomination to the US Supreme Court and thus exposed the problem of sexual harassment to the world.

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A profile of Anita Hill, the African-American lawyer who challenged Clarence Thomas' nomination to the US Supreme Court and thus exposed the problem of sexual harassment to the world.

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Amanda Knox is a young girl from Seattle Washington, who went to study abroad in Italy. She had a roommate she liked, and even met a boyfriend while she was in Italy. One night she came home, and later discovered that her roommate had been brutally murdered. Because she spoke a different language, the police in Italy automatically looked to Amanda and her boyfriend as suspects because of their “body language “. This story is a really important mark in pop-culture because of the way the case was handled in the media. It became a media frenzy as an American girl who murdered an Italian native. Although this case had a lot of inconsistencies within the court and a lack of evidence, they used Amanda's sexuality as a weapon within the case. They judged her body language with her boyfriend on site of the scene, and labeled her as sociopathic for simply giving her boyfriend a kiss.

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The media then  labeled Amanda as a sex crazy sociopath who wanted to kill her roommate. Headlines started with different narratives of what happened that night of the murder.

Different covers labeled her in a sexual way. Headlines surfaced, such as “Foxy Knoxy. “Other covers spun the story into a false narrative that she and her boyfriend were having a threesome with her roommate and then decided to kill her, out of jealousy. The judge and lawyers went with this narrative that was being spun in the media, and convinced the public that Amanda Knox was a crazy wild girl , and therefore she was vindictive and capable of murder.  Something that stuck out to me while reading about this case was the word jealousy. That is such a common term for women because they  are “crazy “. The reality is that jealousy is not something every woman is capable of , although it is heavily stigmatized that it is in a woman's nature to be jealous and crazy.

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I chose this as an important pop-culture artifact,  because what people don’t know is that there was another man involved in the trial, the man who actually killed her roommate. What people often forget is that the man who pledged guilty was never publicized or exposed in the media. Amanda Knox was the better story to tell. She was easy to sexualize because she was a woman; it became an extraordinary story,  not a trial. She was just a foreigner in that country and they took her lack of fluency in Italian , gender, and body language as a sign of being a murderer. I think that this is a really important story to look back on regardless of what actually happened. Instead of focusing on the poor girl who was brutally murdered, the media focused on a “sex crazy girl “they claimed to be a murderer. They sexualized her in the media because they could, because she is a woman. This is wrong. This would’ve never been publicized the way it had,  had only men been involved. It shows that the media values potential “crazy women “more than vindictive men. Even if this woman was not proven to be crazy, the media says so one time and that’s how she was perceived from then on. they sexualized her far beyond the scope of what actually happened.

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Kim Kardashian is a very curvy woman, and at the rise of her fame was when skinny was super in. She surrounded herself with a lot of pop culture icons such as Paris Hilton who fit the mold of the ideal  “2000s look.” Kim Kardashian challenged this mold,  being a public figure that took no shame in her curves. I think that Kim Kardashian‘s body alone shaped a worldwide shift in the expectations for women’s bodies. She was curvy, and she made it in style. She made the curvy body trendy. There were a lot of influential people who were curvy women such as J Lo, however Kim Kardashian set a different tone for curvy women because of how unashamed she was with her body. Around the time of her height of fame, trends started to shift, and a lot of these trends were centered around Kim Kardashian. Dark hair, thin waist, and a big booty.

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This shade range shows that not only are there a lot of options available to purchase from , but it shows the women who are diverse in shade ranges. It shows that several color/tones exist, and they should no longer have to mix shades in order for it to fit their skin tone. The brand is making an effort to give these women a foundation shade they are entitled to.

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Amanda Knox Documentary that shares her story.

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On the morning November 2, 2007, 21-year old Meredith Kercher's lifeless body was discovered in the room of a house that she shared with 3 other women while attending school as part of the Erasmus student exchange program in Perugia, Italy. She'd only been in Perugia a few months. One of the housemates present at the scene of discovery was 20-year old Amanda Knox of Seattle, Washington, also a student and the person from whom this Netflix documentary takes it's name.

Can't say that I was really looking forward to watching this, especially after finding out that it's producers were somewhat deceptive in their claims of showing what they had said would be an unbiased and neutral take in what has been one of the most divisive cases to emerge in the age of the internet and social media. Turns out they'd been advocates for Knox's innocence since at least 2011, when Judge Pratillo Hellmann acquitted Knox and co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito at their first appeal. Why not state your pro-innocence bias upfront? Nothing wrong with that, if you truly believe it, but why state otherwise? And why also state you've got new revelations about the case when you really don't? In fact there was more left out than was put in, but then 90 minutes couldn't possibly cover the roller-coaster of the 3-tiered Italian judiciary system, so the documentary must be selectively streamlined. And boy was it. In a week that started with the first 2016 Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and the question rises about the inability of the news media to "fact-check", "Amanda Knox" finishes the week off with the same question; Did anybody bother to fact-check? Sure, there's a few facts sprinkled here and there, but they're mostly sugar-coated or given short thrift. But short thrift on facts is one thing, glaring omissions of them is another. People are given short thrift as well, most noticeably Meredith Kercher. The documentary almost treats her like an inconvenience to the main story of superstar celebrity Amanda Knox, who herself can't even get facts straight and contradicts her own documented statements several times throughout. Her personal script seems to change almost as much as her alibis did in 2007. And then there's her on screen, um, presence. She doesn't really have any and looks uncomfortable, all the while making her come across as very unlikable. How much is acting and how much is real emotion? With Knox it's hard to tell. Same goes goes for Knifeboy, excuse me, Sollecito. He's almost as unlikable as Knox. And was he stoned when they filmed his interviews? As for Nick Pisa, I had him pegged for scummy trash-journalist years ago and the documentary confirms this, but I don't think the makers of "Amanda Knox" realized that they would be proving his point as well. They're actually doing what he'll be blamed for and that's creating a "story" to mislead while omitting facts (like the fact that Italy's highest court did not exonerate Knox by any means, but that's another documentary) in order to grab headlines and cheap soundbites. The words are different, but the story's the same. They also don't quite pull off their efforts in dichotomy with Giuliano Mignini. The uninformed will see him as the other main villain, but anyone who has followed this tragic case knows better. Overall, "Amanda Knox" is a bad piece of Pubic Relations propaganda that certainly won't sway anyone who believes that Knox, Sollecito and Rudy Guede all participated in the murder of Meredith Kercher, but will certainly convince the selfie generation that, "OMG, she's so totally innocent, I can't believe it". And neither do I.

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Oct 3, 2016

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Kim Kardashian's multitude of businesses over the years- ultimately making her a billionaire.

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The Kardashian empire wasn't built in a day; it took cross-promoting, intuitive timing, and Kris Jenner's presence to take it where it is now. Its humble beginnings in Kim Kardashian's extravagant persona on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" developed into a multi-million dollar affair of collaborations, brand launches, and an uber-curated aesthetic, according to Forbes. Now, it's hard to find a video where the sisters aren't promoting something. For example, Kylie Jenner's "What's In My Bag" segment on YouTube gives us a rundown of all of her siblings' current product endeavors.

Kim has arguably been in the game the longest and has launched numerous businesses over the past decade. Each has reflected how she wanted to be perceived by the public at the time, which makes us believe she may launch something that Pete Davidson would wear soon. From reality TV star to the original Instagram influencer, Kim's trajectory as a celebrity can be tracked through her entrepreneurial spirit. Read on to know which businesses were the most successful for Kim.

6. Kardashian Beauty

In 2012, riding off the success of their reality show " Keeping Up with the Kardashians," sisters Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe Kardashian launched Khroma Beauty, as per Fashionista. The line offered a complete makeup routine: eyeshadow palettes, highlighters, mascaras, and lipsticks. Influencers who reviewed it weren't entirely impressed, though. Judy Travis from the YouTube channel ItsJudyTime said: "I'm not too impressed ... I personally wouldn't buy any more Khroma products because the quality just isn't there." Beauty YouTuber Wayne Goss also noted that "It's definitely more drugstore than it is high end, without a doubt, but the price reflects that as well."

However, the brand was pulled from stores one year after being sued for its name by makeup artist Lee Tillett, who had trademarked her own brand Kroma Makeup (via Daily Mail). Khroma Beauty was then renamed Kardashian Beauty, but it didn't achieve the success that their later beauty brands did. A source told Fashionista, "Serious beauty buffs weren't interested in the line, and even though some of the products had cult-like followings, Kardashian Beauty didn't have the industry respect that Kylie Cosmetics and KKW have now."

5. Dash Boutique

Kim and her sisters' foray into fashion began around the time their reality show started. According to Complex, they only agreed to do "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" to promote their store. So, we have Dash Boutique in Calabasas to thank for the wildly successful reality show. Launched in 2006, Dash became a part of the regular cast to remind us that it's a one-stop contemporary boutique that can help shoppers achieve Kardashian-approved fashion. But as the show picked up and the sisters found other avenues of income, the store wasn't as much of a priority. It wasn't particularly popular either, according to Yelp reviewers. One said, "The store is small, dark, and dismal ... It's pretty sad. The store clerks don't really seem to expect much from customers, so they kinda stand behind the counter and stare. I'm assuming no one really 'shops' in there, just looks" (via Racked).

So, no one was surprised when it shuttered in 2018. Kim said in a statement, "We've loved running Dash, but in the last few years we've all grown so much individually. We've been busy running our own brands, as well as being moms and balancing work with our families. We know in our hearts that it's time to move on."

4. Kim Kardashian: Hollywood

Are you even a gamer if you haven't played " Kim Kardashian: Hollywood"? Kim is definitely versatile in her ventures, and this game is proof. First launched in 2014, the choose-your-adventure game lets you literally be Kim. You can attend parties, dress up for red carpets, take selfies - you know, what influencers do all day. As it turns out, the game tapped into many unfulfilled influencing dreams.

According to Forbes, the game launched in 2014 and was downloaded over 40 million times in 2015, becoming its developer company Glu's biggest moneymaker. Kim herself tweeted in 2016, "Sorry I'm late to the party guys, I was busy cashing my 80 million video game check," but Forbes reported that her earnings were probably half of that number. In 2018, Glu reported $8 million in quarterly revenue (via Sensor Tower). While it may not compare to her other ventures, the game is still doing well on App Store charts, earning 4.7 out of 5 from over 200,000 ratings.

3. Kimoji

Kim has had her life documented on screen for over 15 years, and in that time, we've seen her laugh, cry, and ugly-cry. But in 2015, these iconic moments didn't have to stay on television solely. Kim launched Kimoji that year, an app with over 250 Kim lookalike emojis - including emojis of her emotionally breaking down. It was a paid app that was being obsessively downloaded 9,000 times per second on its first day, as per Complex. It also made $1 million per minute that day - which is a number we cannot comprehend, so we'll move past that.

However, in 2019, social media developer David Liebensohn sued Kim for taking their original ideas of 'Kimoji' and trademarking it without allowing them to profit, per The Washington Post. With controversy surrounding the app and the numbers staying stagnant, Kim and her sisters decided to shut down their respective apps and websites in 2018 (via Page Six).

2. KKW Fragrance and KKW Beauty

In 2017, Kim launched three perfumes under the label KKW Fragrance. The fragrances were Crystal Gardenia, Crystal Gardenia Oud, and Crystal Gardenia Citrus - all of which sold out in the week they launched, according to FashionNetwork. This remains remarkable since they were sold online, and initial buyers didn't know what the scents even smelled like. The perfume brand was a natural next step for Kim since she released perfumes before (via Fragrantica). This time, however, the fragrances made their debut soon after KKW Beauty, which was a brand she released a few months prior. Both launches were spectacular successes.

KKW Fragrance made about $10 million on the first day (via TMZ), and KKW Beauty's makeup line brought in $14 million in just three hours (via People). Both brands are lucrative businesses for the celebrity as they initially brought in the bulk of her wealth. In 2020, she sold 20% of KKW Beauty to Coty for $200 million, which propelled her into the billionaires club, per Forbes. However, one other business continues to do really well for Kim.

1. Skims

Kim Kardashian capitalized on her coveted butt, which has made it on magazine covers and Instagram ads with the launch of Skims. In 2019, Kim introduced her shapewear line to consumers as "a solutions-oriented brand creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear, and shapewear" (via Skims).

According to an anonymous source, the company was initially valued above $500 million, and Forbes estimated Kim's majority stake in the company to be $225 million. But the brand's value exponentially increased during the pandemic as Skims quickly adapted. It introduced loungewear and comfy clothes almost immediately after quarantine orders were in place (via The New York Times). Now, the company is valued at $1.6 billion and has over 3.5 million followers on Instagram, where it continues to release drop dates for new lines. Kim told The New York Times that she hopes to build Skims into a "multigenerational brand that will be around for a very long time."

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The Kardashian empire wasn't built in a day; it took cross-promoting, intuitive timing, and Kris Jenner's presence to take it where it is now. Its humble beginnings in Kim Kardashian's extravagant persona on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" developed into a multi-million dollar affair of collaborations, brand launches, and an uber-curated aesthetic, according to Forbes.

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Kim Kardashian had a sex tape with her then husband Ray J, this was a scandal that sparked across the media. I think this was a worldwide shift in what women should be ashamed of. Kim’s sex tape hit national news, which led to her having to deal with it publicly. Kim dealt with it in a very empowering way, she claims “I was horny so I made a sex tape.“ She was very unapologetic for her actions , which had a sense of underlying empowerment to it. She continued the stigma of not being ashamed of being naked, by being infamous for shooting covers and magazines nude and posting unapologetically on social media.

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In 2007, the very same year that Keeping Up With the Kardashians would debut on E!, Kim Kardashian's sex tape with Ray J, her then-boyfriend, was leaked to the public. Since then, Kardashian has moved on: In addition to her continuing reality TV star status, Kardashian is a makeup mogul, savvy business woman, and, most recently, prison reform activist.

Still, Kardashian is synonymous with "sexy," and questions about that sex tape do still come up. Now, Kardashian knows exactly how to talk about it.

"I thought that for Paris [Hilton, whose own sex tape was released in 2004], it was explosive and a super lot of attention for her too, in a positive way," the KKW Beauty founder told Ellis. "But once you go through it and you have those conversations with your parents and grandparents and everyone that you'd be really embarrassed about it with, I think you get to a point where you're like, 'Okay, we're dealing with this legally, and it's time to move on.'"

Despite the release of the tape, Kardashian told the publication that she's far more "conservative" than her "wild, sexual" persona.

"I can go on a set and be fully naked in front of 50 people doing a shoot, but if I'm one on one, intimate in bed, I'm like shy and insecure," she admitted in the interview. "I definitely have two different personalities like that."

Kardashian may be more demure off camera, but her shoot with Richardson definitely confirms that her sexually-free public persona exists: Photos for the new spread include semi-nude photos, one in which she is wearing a latex thong.

The awesome thing about these photoshoots? These days, Kardashian gets to control who sees her naked form.

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Kim Kardashian Opens Up About Her Sex Life In NSFW Interview

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In 2007, the very same year that Keeping Up With the Kardashians would debut on E!, Kim Kardashian's sex tape with Ray J, her then-boyfriend, was leaked to the public. Since then, Kardashian has moved on: In addition to her continuing reality TV star status, Kardashian is a makeup mogul, savvy business woman, and, most recently, prison reform activist.

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Fenty beauty was glorified in the media- for good reason. Fenty beauty is an iconic point in makeup history that sets the tone for what inclusivity really means.

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The first time we showed the Fenty Beauty campaign trailer internally, a room full of business leaders, including myself, got very emotional. It was the first time underrepresented, underserved women and cultures were featured in a global prestige beauty campaign.

We knew the brand would touch women's hearts around the world, but we had no idea of the greater impact our work would ultimately have. There was no precedent to our radical approach to inclusivity. We had to break and disrupt all the traditional marketing rules and carve a new path.

The results exceeded all of our expectations.

In our first year of business, Fenty Beauty became the biggest beauty brand launch in YouTube history, drove huge success commercially, and was named one of Time Magazine's best inventions of 2017.

Here's how we did it - and three lessons we learned along the way.

Exclude no one

From the beginning, our founder Rihanna was very clear that absolutely no one was to be excluded. Her vision of "Beauty for All" became our marketing mission.

Fenty Beauty first launched with 40 beautiful shades of foundation and today we have 50. At the time, there wasn't a brand that truly reached everyone from the lightest skin to the darkest. Many undertones, such as olive ones like mine, were also underserved in beauty. Inclusion was more than the number of shades; it was the well-crafted nuance of each shade in the range that also served as a proof point. This allowed so many women to find themselves in the brand and feel included.

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Fenty Beauty's inclusive advertising campaign - Think with Google

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Get to know your customers. Fenty Beauty's inclusive advertising campaign, Beauty for All, ditched traditional marketing rules and carved a new path.

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Kim Kardashian's Billion Dollar Brand- SKIMS

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Despite being a sex symbol for nearly 10 years, Kim Kardashian was very undermined for being the reality start with a sex tape. She took the criticism and she made it an empire. She constantly broke standards people had of her, and now is one of the most successful women in fashion and makeup. She owns billion dollar corporation’s and constantly proves herself as being an intelligent businesswoman. I think that this is a super important mark in pop culture because it breaks the stigma that just because you are pretty and have done things that are looked at as “scandalous” or “stupid”, you can still be intelligent and successful.

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Kim Kardashian continues to break the mold for women, as she is now studying to become a lawyer. This is something no one expected out of her because she started off as Paris Hilton‘s assistant who made a sex tape, and then she was just a reality star. She continues to break the mold for what people should expect out of her, and she overall is a very underestimated individual. She has already gotten several individuals who are wrongly accused out of jail, and continues to use your platform for good. Kim Kardashian is such an important figure in our pop-culture because she has broken down so many molds that women are supposed to fit in. She has also broken down so many stigmas towards beautiful women.

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Kim Kardashian explains why she's becoming a lawyer

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I really connected with Kim Kardashian because I think she represents a stigma within young, beautiful women, who do not have a stereotypical job. Kim Kardashian proves you do not have to have a normal start/job in order to be successful or professional. She also proves that women can embrace their bodies and be sexy, and still be considered a businesswomen. I think this is a very powerful thing.