Kris Jenner “Interview” Blind Date Backfires as Kim Kardashian Shows Up Armed with a Résumé

25 September 2025

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Kim Kardashian offered a cheeky peek into her dating past during a September 24 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, revealing how her mother, Kris Jenner, once tricked her into a blind date by telling her it was a job interview. Long before Keeping Up With the Kardashians began, Kris arranged a meeting at The Ivy in Los Angeles with a man whom Kim believed was a TV executive. Thinking it was part of a professional opportunity, Kim arrived with her résumé in hand, ready to talk goals, ambitions, and career strategy.

Minutes into the “interview,” Kim realized what had really been going on and promptly put away her résumé. She jokingly admitted she was surprised her mom didn’t expect her to be so prepared. She recalled telling Kris she was going to kill her once she figured out the ruse. Kris, seated in the audience, chimed in that the man had known all along the meeting was a date. Kris added that he once joked about bringing his Emmy award to the meeting, which Kim’s sister Khloé immediately flagged as a red flag.

Kim said the awkward moment didn’t sour her trust in her mom’s matchmaking altogether. She said she would still listen to Kris’s advice on dating, even if she cuts her some slack after that legendary blind date. Khloé, ever skeptical, dismissed herself from potential setup roles, claiming she isn’t a particularly good picker.

This story does more than elicit laughter. It reflects how family, identity, and public persona often intersect in Kim’s life. The setup occurred before her reality television stardom, when her public image was still forming. In that moment she was not a celebrity but a daughter navigating the tricky space between personal dreams and familial influence.

It also underscores how the Kardashian-Jenner family has long operated at the nexus of private life and staged image. In retrospect the blind date feels symbolic: momentum toward visibility, performance, and the blending of business, relationships, and media. Kim arriving with a résumé speaks to not just ambition but the instincts of someone shaped to perform, analyze, and respond to life on public terms.

When Kim described how she realized the setup she said the discovery came swiftly. She recalled pulling the résumé back into her purse and then feeling betrayal, humor, and resolve all at once. The moment wasn’t bitter so much as transformative. Her response in hindsight is warm yet firm she described the day with laughs now, but also understanding.

Kris’s defense of the stunt felt practiced, playful, maternal, and strategic. She framed the meeting as a miscalculation but also as a gesture rooted in care, if heavy-handed. She later admitted she thought the Emmy joke would help things but realized it was never going to work. Kim snapped back, “Mom, stop,” but Kris pressed on. In that banter lies much of the dynamic their audience has come to expect control, negotiation, power, performance.

Beyond its surface humor the story resonates because it’s a moment of control and surprise in a life where much is staged. Kim’s laughter and her willingness to share reveal both intimacy and curation. She allows the audience inside a private moment, yet her version is shaped, filtered, and knowingly performative.

Fans and media responded quickly. The story lit discussions about agency, parenthood, romantic autonomy, and celebrity influence. Some praised Kim’s grace and good humor in telling it. Others critiqued Kris’s approach, asking who really benefits when a mother actively scripts her child’s dating life especially one in the public eye.

Still, Kim’s reflections show restraint. She says she recognized what was happening fairly quickly and chose to share the memory on her own terms. She did not shame her mother entirely. She allowed humor to soften power dynamics and left space for nuance. She held onto dignity.

In the end the anecdote is a small window into larger themes that have always followed the Kardashians: performance, image, manipulation, intention, and public identity. A mother sets up a date disguised as an interview. A daughter arrives ready to work, only to find she’s the subject of a script. It’s both red-flag and rite of passage in a life built on visibility.