Claire Cohen reviews “House of Kardashian” for Vogue, and asks why people are so singularly obsessed with whether Kim Kardashian leaked her sex tape.
You only have to watch the intro to Sky’s new three-part docuseries House of Kardashian to get a sense of one of its major talking points. “The sex tape was a means to an end, it was to create a controversy,” says Joe Francis, founder of the Girls Gone Wild empire and close friend of the Kardashian-Jenner clan to this day.
You could argue that they put it all out there and kept it all out there, too. But a different way to look at it could be that they have spent all this time trying to reclaim the narrative. “For 20 years, this has been held over my head,” Kardashian said last year. “I’m just human.” In 2016, she wrote an essay criticizing those who had “slut-shamed” her. “I lived through the embarrassment and fear,” she explained, “I shouldn’t have to constantly be on the defense.
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