Kim Kardashian is crediting Caitlyn Jenner for extending the lifetime of their long-running household actuality present. Throughout a current look on “The Graham Norton Present,” Kim, 45, opened up about filming the collection within the early days and revealed her household’s drama with Caitlyn was a key think about maintaining it on the air.

In keeping with Kim, her household had no concept how profitable their actuality present would grow to be once they started filming within the early 2000s. “We shot the pilot and had no concept what it will flip into, however 20 years on it’s nonetheless going,” she mentioned.

“Holding Up with the Kardashians” first aired in October 2007 and concluded in June 2021. The E! Community aired over 280 episodes of the collection throughout 20 seasons, excluding the present’s eight spin-offs.

Whereas the present remained fashionable for years, always creating compelling content material proved difficult. Fortuitously, one important storyline delivered intense, real-life drama all by itself: Caitlyn’s transition.

“The exhibits write themselves. As soon as after we puzzled what would possibly occur subsequent my stepdad was a lady and there have been two extra seasons proper there!” Kim joked.

Caitlyn’s transition turned a trending subject following her 2015 Self-importance Honest cowl shoot, by which she admitted that lastly residing as her true self meant extra to her than anything.

“This shoot was about my life and who I’m as an individual,” she mentioned. “It isn’t in regards to the fanfare, it is not about individuals cheering within the stadium, it is not about happening the road and everyone supplying you with ‘that-a-boy, Bruce,’ pat on the again, okay. That is about your life.”

In episodes of their household actuality present, Caitlyn spent a substantial portion of the later seasons engaged on her strained relationship with a few of her relations, together with her ex-wife, Kris Jenner.

The pair have been married for 22 years earlier than Caitlyn’s transition. After her surgical procedure, the Olympian launched a memoir, “The Secrets and techniques of My Life,” by which she hinted that Kris was conscious of her wishes to transition, sparking chaos among the many household.

Kris opened up about confronting Caitlyn over the publication in a earlier episode, saying, “I used to be curious and mentioned, ‘What the h-ll is occurring?’ She [Caitlyn] mentioned, ‘You simply would by no means perceive.'”

“After which, all by the e-book, Kris knew. ‘Kris knew earlier than I even made like to her.’ I am like, ‘What?'” Kris continued. “None of it is smart.”

She went on, accusing Caitlyn of being a liar who was attempting to smash her fame. “Why does every part must be that Kris is such a b-tch and an a—gap?” she mentioned.

Years after Caitlyn’s transition, an insider near the previous skilled athlete revealed that she started feeling remorse over Kris studying of her transition by community executives. In keeping with the supply, it “harm” Caitlyn to be taught she could not share the information herself.

The Blast beforehand documented Kris’ anger over her ex-husband’s bombshell admission about utilizing hormones many years earlier within the ’80s.

“After I met Bruce, he advised me that he had completed hormones again within the early ’80s. This was a dialog that passed off within the early ’90s. So, what he was telling me occurred a decade earlier, and he by no means actually defined it,” she mentioned.