Long before Kim Kardashian became a global reality-TV star, entrepreneur, and founder of SKIMS, her father, attorney Robert Kardashian Sr., seemed convinced that an extraordinary future was waiting for her. In Jonathan Van Meter’s newly released biography *Citizen Kim*, Kim revisits the final full conversation she shared with Robert, who died in 2003 after a brief battle with stage-four esophageal cancer.

Robert’s words were simple but striking. “I know you’re going to be good—I can see it,” he told his daughter. “It’s as if I can see what your whole life is going to be like.” He never explained exactly what he imagined, but his confidence stayed with Kim.
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