Kim Kardashian Was Asked If She'll Retake The Bar Exam — And It's Not Happening Any Time Soon

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Last November, Kim Kardashian shared the frustrating quality that she failed the barroom exam.

She began studying to go a lawyer successful 2019, inspired by her father, Robert Kardashian Sr.'s instrumentality career, and her ain advocacy work, which began aft Kim successfully convinced President Donald Trump to assistance clemency to Alice Marie Johnson successful 2018. She took the babe barroom 3 times earlier passing connected her 4th effort successful 2021 and aboriginal took the barroom successful July 2025.

"Well…I'm not a lawyer yet," Kim wrote astatine the time. But she made it wide she wasn't giving up. "Six years into this instrumentality journey, and I'm inactive each successful until I walk the bar," she said. "No shortcuts, nary giving up – conscionable much studying and adjacent much determination."

Since then, Kim has mostly stayed quiescent astir her instrumentality journey, portion focusing connected filming her world show, relaunching her quality line, parenting her 4 children, and moving her billion-dollar covering company, Skims. But successful a caller interrogation with Complex, she was asked whether she inactive plans to retake the exam.

"Interestingly, I said going into it that I would ne'er effort again," Kim said. "I called it a 'one and done' due to the fact that of clip and vigor constraints. But the time after, I started studying again and haven't stopped."

That said, she made it wide that a retake isn't happening immoderate clip soon. "One day, I'll retake it. I don't cognize when," Kim said. "I person to find the time. But I don't deliberation I could unrecorded with myself if I don't effort again. I can't walk up the opportunity. I didn't travel this acold conscionable to springiness up."

Kim besides revealed that she "came truly close" to passing successful November. "I conscionable person to bash better," she continued. "I'm not 1 to marque excuses. I could accidental I threw my backmost retired that week, which I did, but it is what it is. I conscionable didn't execute good enough."

And portion she does program to retake the trial eventually, she suggested that she mightiness support the results backstage adjacent time. "I deliberation I'm going to support my caput down a spot much adjacent time, and possibly not broadcast it to the world," Kim said, adding, "Although, I didn't truly person a prime since they station the results unrecorded online, which is brainsick to me. That unit is insane, truthful I figured I should conscionable station that I didn't walk myself, since radical would find retired anyway."

She went connected to stock each the encouraging words she received aft failing the exam — including from erstwhile president Barack Obama. "Even astatine a foundation dinner, Obama told maine Michelle didn't walk connected her archetypal try," she said.

Obama wasn't the lone high-profile idiosyncratic to scope out, either. Kim said, "So galore astonishing attorneys and radical I respect reached out, saying Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris besides didn't walk the archetypal time."

"So it's not the extremity of the world," she said, "but nary excuses—you conscionable bash better."

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