Keeping Up With The Kardashians: You won't believe how different the famous family looked in series 1
It's official. As of next year, we will no longer be keeping up with the Kardashians.
Taking to Instagram to announce the end of their hit show, the family said:
"It is with heavy hearts that we’ve made the difficult decision as a family to say goodbye to Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
"After what will be 14 years, 20 seasons, hundreds of episodes and numerous spin-off shows, we are beyond grateful to all of you who’ve watched us for all of these years – through the good times, the bad times, the happiness, the tears, and the many relationships and children. We’ll forever cherish the wonderful memories and countless people we’ve met along the way."
Love them or loathe them, one thing is for sure: this is the end of an era in reality TV.
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So we thought we'd take this opportunity to cast our minds back 14 years, to the very first season, and see what our favourite family were up to then versus now. A kompare and kontrast, if you will (sorry).
Since series 1 aired way back in 2007, a hell of a lot has changed for the Kardashian-Jenner clan. Lip kits and multi-million-dollar cosmetics companies; sell-out clothing lines; hit lifestyle websites; one pretty damn good cookbook (we stan Kris Jenner's cooking); marriages and divorces; relationships and break-ups; gender reassignment; countless magazine covers and modelling contracts; pranks and practical jokes aplenty (will all the real Khlo-Money fans please stand up) and – of course – tons of impossibly cute kids.
So, here are some serious throwback photos, all taken from the very first episode of series 1 of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, as well as details of just how far the Kardashian-Jenner gang have come since then...
NBC Universal / E!Kim Kardashian: Then
In February 2007, a 2003 sex tape made by Kim and her former boyfriend Ray J was leaked. Later that year, the whole family was commissioned to star in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Kim was 27 when filming began.
Getty ImagesKim Kardashian West: Now
Fast forward to 2020, and what hasn't Kim done?! Aside from amassing hundreds of millions of social media followers and fans, she starred in reality TV spin-offs including Kourtney and Kim Take New York (2011–2012) and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami (2009–2013), plus launched a mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and the 2015 photo book Selfish.
More recently, Kim has founded KKW Beauty and KKW fragrance in 2017, then Skims range of shapewear and loungewear in 2019. She is also training to become a lawyer and has become a fierce advocate for criminal justice reform.
Oh, and she married Kanye West in 2014, with whom she's gone on to have four children: North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.
NBC Universal / E!Khloe Kardashian: Then
Khloe was just 23 when filming started, when she famously got herself a DUI (not cool, Khlo).
Getty ImagesKhloe Kardashian: Now
After KUWTK became successful, Khloe starred in spin-off shows including Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, Khloé & Lamar with her then-husband Lamar Odom, Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamptons.
In 2015, she published her book Strong Looks Better Naked and a year later, launched a clothing line with Emma Grede called Good American, after struggling to find jeans to fit their body shapes. They made $1 million in sales on their first day.
Khloe gave birth to her daughter True Thompson in 2018. She had been in a relationship with basketball player Tristan Thompson, but they split in 2019 after cheating allegations.
NBC Universal / E!Kris Jenner: Then
Kris was 52 when she met with Ryan Seacrest – who had his own production company – in 2007, to discuss the idea of the show. At the time, she said: "Like, there's the little girls, and there's the older girls, and then there's my son... Everybody thinks that they could create a bunch of drama in their lives, but it's something that I felt I didn't even have to think about. It would be natural."
Truer words were never spoken, Kris!
Getty ImagesKris Jenner: Now
Kris is the momager with the most, now running her own production company, Jenner Communications, based in Los Angeles.
Her autobiography Kris Jenner... and All Things Kardashian came out in 2011, and later, she wrote a cookbook called Kitchen with Kris: A Kollection of Kardashian-Jenner Family Favorites, which was released in 2014.
Since separating from Jenner, Kris has been dating Corey Gamble since around 2014.
NBC Universal / E!Rob Kardashian: Then
Rob was 20 when the show started filming, and two years later, graduated from the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.
@khloekardashian / InstagramRob Kardashian: Now
Though Rob only makes rare appearances on KUWTK nowadays, his life is still very much in the public eye. He started dating model Blac Chyna in early 2016, with whom he welcomed a daughter, Dream, in December that year.
Blac Chyna and Rob have since split, and he posted a series of Instagram intimate photos of her (since deleted) accusing her of cheating.
Rob struggles with diabetes, and was hospitalised with the condition in 2016 after being diagnosed in 2015.
NBC Universal / E!Bruce Jenner: Then
Former Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner married Kris Jenner in 1991, and was 58 when Keeping Up began filming. Jenner has six children, including Kendall and Kylie with Kris.
Getty ImagesCaitlin Jenner: Now
Caitlyn Jenner publicly came out as a trans woman in April 2015, undergoing gender reassignment surgery in January 2017.
From 2015 to 2016, Caitlin starred in her own reality TV series I Am Cait about her transition.
NBC Universal / E!Kendall Jenner: Then
At just 12 when the show started, and two years later, she began her modelling career when Wilhelmina Models signed her in July 2009.
Getty ImagesKendall Jenner: Now
Since taking the modelling world by storm, Kendall has walked multiple runways for some of the biggest names in fashion during New York, Milan, and Paris fashion weeks, as well as gracing countless magazine covers.
In 2017, [i]Forbes[I] named Kendall the world's highest-paid model.
NBC Universal / E!Kourtney Kardashian: Then
Kourtney and Scott's relationship was new when KUWTK first started – she was 28; him 24. They'd met a year prior at a mutual friend Joe Francis's house party in Mexico.
Getty ImagesKourtney Kardashian: Now
Though her relationship with Scott Disick ended in 2015, the two have three children together – Mason, Penelope and Reign.
In March last year, Kourtney launched her lifestyle website named Poosh, which has been her professional focus since taking a step back from KUWTK.
NBC Universal / E!Kylie Jenner: Then
At just 10 years old when the show began, Kylie was, well, not up to a hell of a lot. She was generally causing havoc with her Kendall around the Kar-Jenner household, in the way that 10-year-olds who don't yet own a multi-million dollar cosmetics business do.
Getty ImagesKylie Jenner: Now
As well as creating a clothing line with her sister Kendall, Queen Kylie has since founded the colossally successful cosmetic company Kylie Cosmetics, started from her famous lip kits, and has now expanded into skincare, too.
Kylie's daughter Stormi Webster was born in 2018 – her father is rapper Travis Scott, who Kylie dated from 2017 to 2019.
At just 21, Kylie was named the world's youngest self-made billionaire in March 2019.
