US television star Kim Kardashian, known for her reality shows and marriage to hip-hop artist Kanye West, is studying law and hopes to pass her California bar exams by 2022, the magazine Vogue reported on Wednesday.
The 38-year-old lifestyle mogul with 134 million Instagram followers has been interning at a California law firm since 2018. She said she was inspired to study law after petitioning US President Donald Trump in 2018 to pardon Alice Marie Johnson.
Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother, had served nearly 22 years of a life sentence for cocaine trafficking.
A week after meeting with Kardashian, Trump, a former reality television star, pardoned Johnson in June 2018.
The star of Keeping Up With the Kardashians said she had been invited to the White House on several occasions to participate in a working group on pardons and clemency.
“I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society,” she told Vogue.
“I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more,” said the mother-of-three whose own father Robert was an attorney who helped defend OJ Simpson in his murder trial.
US law school admission usually requires a bachelor’s degree in any discipline. Kardashian never graduated from the college she attended, Pierce, having dropped out before she completed her course.
However, some states, including California, allow would-be attorneys to intern in a law firm for four years before taking the bar exam.
