Kim Kardashian is in the hot seat after the advice she offered women in business.
The Kardashian family, including Kim, graced the cover of Variety to promote their upcoming Hulu series “The Kardashians.”
In the video interview, Kardashian noted: “I have the best advice for women in business: Get your f—ing ass up and work.”
“It seems like nobody wants to work these days," she added.
Kourtney Kardashian agreed with Kim, stating: “That’s so true.”
The 41-year-old reality star continued dishing out her recipe for success: “You have to surround yourself with people that want to work. Have a good work environment where everyone loves what they do because you have one life.”
“No toxic work environments and show up and do the work,” she added.
Kim explained that she’s all too familiar with hard work and that “if you put in the work, you will receive results.”
“It’s that simple,” she surmised.
However, after the clip was posted on Variety’s Twitter page, it wasn’t well received and garnered plenty of backlash for not being that simple at all.
One Twitter user said “Also: be born rich. Really helps,” alluding to the fact that her late father, Robert Kardashian, was a successful attorney that provided the famous family with a good foundation.
Another user suggested that maybe Kim should “spend time with real people” and see “many holding down 2 jobs and still being unable to afford their own place or even a smidgen of the luxuries she has.”
Kim’s advice even riled up fellow celebrities as “The Good Place” actress Jameela Jamil tweeted, "I think if you grew up in Beverly Hills with super successful parents in what was simply a smaller mansion… nobody needs to hear your thoughts on success/work ethic.”
“Community” star Yvette Nicole Brown agreed with Jamil in the comments, writing: "With the amount of help (household and otherwise) they’ve had in life, being able to work hard is easy. Lecturing those who weren’t born on third base about their work ethic is ridiculously rude and disrespectful."
Another Twitter user pointed out how crippling the pandemic has been for working mothers.
“Over the last 2 years, women have been sidelined from work they'd like to get back to b/c of caregiving responsibilities and objectionable working conditions (including a lack of PTO, child care, flexible + predictable work scheduling). And yet.”
A third simply called Kim’s advice “tone deaf.”
Kim has not addressed the criticism to her advice, however, she did open up about her boyfriend Pete Davidson for the first time and revealed whether he’d appear on the family’s new reality series.
“I have not filmed with him. And I’m not opposed to it. It’s just not what he does,” she explained in the same article, adding, “But if there was an event happening and he was there, he wouldn’t tell the cameras to get away.”
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