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[–]mother_of_iggies 4067 points4068 points  (212 children)

I’m old enough to remember when they first used to post these photos. The photos have been altered through the years, if I remember correctly in this one she had more cheeks/cheekbones and more of a dark under eye area. If someone can be bothered they should make a comparison post.

[–]messytheliomathat body of yours is absurd 1488 points1489 points  (10 children)

did someone yassify this😭 i remember seeing this before and kim looked great but u could also tell the photo quality was from the 90s, here it kinda looks like someone put a filter or an edit thru picsart on kim

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[–]raccafarian 133 points134 points  (7 children)

When she still had her baby hair

[–]Own_Cranberry5208 118 points119 points  (0 children)

The baby hair-ectomy and nose jobs really changed her look the most dramatically, to me.

[–]letsgototraderjoes 73 points74 points  (5 children)

ikr?! it's so weird how she did that hairline procedure. it completely removes all baby hairs which I don't understand... baby hairs are so pretty lol these people are sick

[–]BlueAcorn8 82 points83 points  (1 child)

She said she regrets it now. It really made a massive difference to her face, it took away a lot of the wispy, effortless sexiness & made her forehead really huge & clinical looking.

[–]BORT_licenceplate 22 points23 points  (2 children)

I unfortunately don't really have any baby hairs and I hate it. Whenever I tie my hair up it's just BAM FOREHEAD. Idk why anyone would want to remove them, they're so cute

[–]alien-niven 358 points359 points  (33 children)

She's very pretty here, but looks very much like a child. I think her peak as an adult was the early aughts. This is Kim on TRL in 2008

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[–]alien-niven 161 points162 points  (13 children)

[–]alien-niven 193 points194 points  (11 children)

[–]BloodyBarbieBrains 191 points192 points  (1 child)

Wow. Immensely beautiful

[–]yomamasonions 20 points21 points  (0 children)

No wonky eye 👁️

[–]msksksnsj 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So pretty!!

[–]newtoreddir 148 points149 points  (1 child)

She’s beautiful, but approachable, like the girl working at Sam Goody at the Glendale Galleria.

[–]reddit24682468 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Ugh she looked so good 😩 literal princess

[–]BlueAcorn8 51 points52 points  (12 children)

She should never have touched anything, she looked so exotic before.

[–]carolinemathildes 586 points587 points  (9 children)

I know they're sisters and it's how genetics work so it's not shocking but I really see the resemblance to Kourtney here.

[–]coolforcatsmp3call the CIA, or the FBI, or TMZ 310 points311 points  (2 children)

Definitely seeing Kourtney but also Kendall and Kylie.

It’s funny how they’ve gone from looking like family, to looking like strangers, and back to looking like family by getting all the same procedures.

[–]BlueAcorn8 91 points92 points  (1 child)

She looked so similar to Kourtney before, they both had/have very Armenian look to them which Kim has sadly erased.

[–]Chance-Internal-5450 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yus! Glad I’m not alone.

[–]McKoijionI was sick to the pit of my tummy 318 points319 points  (30 children)

She must have been miserable that year. The OJ murder trial lasted from November 1994 to October 1995.

[–]momofwon 272 points273 points  (26 children)

Seriously it must have sucked to be the girl whose dad was defending OJ. Even at a fancy private school.

[–]McKoijionI was sick to the pit of my tummy 287 points288 points  (18 children)

It was worse than that. Her dad was OJ’s best friend, and her mom was Nicole Brown Simpson’s best friend.

[–]skyerippa 135 points136 points  (6 children)

I cant imagine how Kris felt, to have her husband defend the man that brutally murdered your best friend?

It's sick.

[–]kel36 43 points44 points  (4 children)

I know he passed away from…cancer? But did he and Kris divorce after this or were they already divorce? Like I don’t think I’d be able to stay with someone who just went on to defend someone who made that choice.

[–]blackpearl16 55 points56 points  (1 child)

IIRC they were already divorced.

[–]skyerippa 37 points38 points  (1 child)

They divorced before but either became close again or reunited once he got diagnosed(not romantically tho) I can't remember.

[–]momofwon 195 points196 points  (5 children)

I forgot that Kris and Nicole were best friends! She’s been very open about how awful that whole thing was for her.

Also OJ was the best man at Kris and Robert’s wedding.

[–]WittiestScreenName 122 points123 points  (1 child)

Kendall is named after her. Kendall Nicole

[–]NaNaNaNaNatman 34 points35 points  (0 children)

How does this thread keep getting crazier

[–]NaNaNaNaNatman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is so crazy wtf how have I not heard about this whole rabbit hole before

[–]lambo1109 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I can’t imagine how confusing of a time that would have been for them.

[–]LuvTriangleApologist 22 points23 points  (3 children)

He was a very minor player on that defense team. Way more notable that he was OJ’s good friend.

[–]stellar14 33 points34 points  (1 child)

Yeah must suck that your dad was complicit in hiding evidence to get wife killer off free, what a POS her dad was.

[–]sexycann3lloni 210 points211 points  (1 child)

I can’t deal with them editing childhood photos to keep up with the plastic surgery allegations

[–]illogicallyalexFlo likes a classy lady. I like a lazy bitch. 322 points323 points  (3 children)

It’s crazy to me that nowadays she’s completely lost any trace of her ethnic features. She had such a unique look and now she’s the standard for generic plastic surgery face

[–]Husky-Bear 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Ironic considering they all make (made? idk haven't paid close attention to them in years) a huge deal about their Armenian heritage.

[–]JoleneDollyParton 18 points19 points  (1 child)

she looked like a disney princess before

[–]SuspiciousAthlete943 326 points327 points  (24 children)

I wonder what it's like going through life and never having an awkward/ugly phase.

[–]discolights[S] 87 points88 points  (9 children)

I wish I knew! I was an ugly duckling until I was like 27 😂😂

[–]synalgo_12 33 points34 points  (6 children)

I had my glow up at 28/29 so I totally get you.

[–]Orchidwalker 54 points55 points  (3 children)

I shit you not, I’m 50 and having a sort of rebirth, feeling myself and having a glow up.

[–]synalgo_12 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That sounds amazing!

[–]NaNaNaNaNatman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah

[–]reddit24682468 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great I’ve still got hope

[–]idontwantanamern 61 points62 points  (5 children)

Honestly. She's less than a year older than I am and every single time I see this photo, I mentally compare it to any picture I have of myself from the same time and... No. Absolutely not.

[–]IMOvicki 22 points23 points  (1 child)

They photoshop** their old pics. Youre stunning dont worry!

[–]idontwantanamern 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Hahahahaha you have never seen my "1995 teenager" photos. No amount of photoshop could save that mess.

[–]mrsc1880 14 points15 points  (2 children)

Same. I would've given anything to look this cool in 1995.

[–]idontwantanamern 7 points8 points  (1 child)

Even at the time, there were so many people my age (or very close to it) and just appeared effortlessly cool. Not just in pop culture, but in real life. I found my yearbook a year or two ago and thought maybe I was just exaggerating it in my memory -- hahaha no. They still look like the could be the cool kids in present day. Much like this photo of Kim K.

[–]mrsc1880 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My 1998 boyfriend's ex was cool like this. She was really nice to me but I hated her so much. Effortlessly cool, indeed.

[–]redhotbananas 26 points27 points  (1 child)

One could make the argument that her current post surgical face is her awkward face. Between ptosis and being unable to close her lips it’s getting uncanny.

[–]rhiannonjojaimmes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With all the work they get done/ editing on photos, I don’t think they see it that way

[–]Chance-Internal-5450 494 points495 points  (24 children)

Far prettier then than now post surgical work.

[–]An0nnAcc0unt 87 points88 points  (1 child)

This photo is photoshopped. Namely her nose. She’s been known and proven to photoshop older photos of her to mimic some of her plastic surgery.

Her nose was far more Armenian in the original photo.

[–]Rainbow_Belle 100 points101 points  (4 children)

I was going to make the same comment, too. It's such a shame she didn't see how pretty/beautiful she was before she got all that work done.

[–]Chance-Internal-5450 30 points31 points  (2 children)

Truly. She’s still gorgeous but dang. I wish she knew back then.

[–]trialanderrorschach 41 points42 points  (1 child)

I'm sure she did. All the money spent on her looks is about curating a brand. She created the template for the IG model look and built an empire off it. I doubt she was under the impression she wasn't already hot.

[–]BlueAcorn8 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it’s that she didn’t think she was hot, I think it’s that you’re always striving to improve when you’re building fame off of your looks. And so many times these improvements are not for the best because people often look at one thing isolated as a “problem” or not the best version it could be rather than look at their face as a whole & how it makes it interesting/exotic/beautiful in a way you can’t put your finger one.

One of the things she did which isn’t even surgery that made a huge difference is she lasered off her baby hairs all along her forehead as looking at it by itself she saw it as unwanted hair. It made her look so different & took away a lot of the Armenian & exotic look she had which Kourtney still has. Kim has said she regrets it now.

[–]FunKaleidoscope4582 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At the time it was not a popular/desirable look in Hollywood. Growing up in Hollywood and trying to make a career in the entertainment industry is cutting edge stuff, and these girls grew up seeing people dramatically change to fit the Hollywood look.

I don't blame them. And personally I don't mind that people want to reinvent themselves. It's their right.

[–]Brief-Specific6009 52 points53 points  (3 children)

Her lips here are awesome

[–]HappySparklyUnicorn 39 points40 points  (1 child)

She has some very nice brows too. Not too thin considering the 90s.

[–]Chance-Internal-5450 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Truly perfection! Such a natural beauty ruined in some ways. That said, she’s still gorgeous but she should have trusted her genetics.

[–]blueboxbandit 38 points39 points  (5 children)

Well pretty much everyone is prettier thirty years ago, I mean, that's why people dislike aging.

[–]synalgo_12 8 points9 points  (2 children)

I didn't get my glow up until I was 29. I mean 30 years ago I wss 7 so I'm uncomfortable comparing myself in beauty to my child self. But like, my 14-29 looked a lot worse than my 30s so far.

[–]ItaloTuga_Gabi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same age here. I feel like I peaked at 26 - 31.

[–]wowIamMean 27 points28 points  (1 child)

She’s also like 45 now 🙄

[–]0_usothheil_0 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Exactly. That photo was taken 30 years ago. But you will still have the “far younger looking then, before she touched her face, than now” crowd.

[–]cassiopeia18 113 points114 points  (22 children)

Is she actually look like that before? Why is she so look different in early 2000s, pics taken in events or by paparazzi.

it’s easy to photoshop any old photos.

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[–]cassiopeia18 29 points30 points  (6 children)

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I only started to heard about Kim around 2010-2012 something, and I remember she look like this

[–]cassiopeia18 41 points42 points  (4 children)

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2006

[–]cassiopeia18 34 points35 points  (2 children)

[–]helenahandbasket6969 27 points28 points  (1 child)

Oh my God. Khloe’s face is really snatched straight from that hairdresser guy.

[–]Top-Raspberry-7837 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Did she have a boob job back then?

[–]esg4571 46 points47 points  (2 children)

Well, she would have been 14-15 in 1995, so it makes sense to me that she'd look different than she did as a young adult in her early 20s.

[–]cassiopeia18 12 points13 points  (1 child)

I just check 1994 video, she does look cute. But that early 2000s era she look so old and different with that style and makeup.

[–]lambo1109 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Early 2000s we’re harsh for all of us

[–]BabuHime 32 points33 points  (1 child)

Because the early 2000's were a dark dark time for everyone 💀

[–]alien-niven 53 points54 points  (5 children)

Angles and lighting. Her nose looks less prominent with pictures from a low angle.

This is another picture of her in 2010, where you can see her face matured, but it doesn't look that far off from 1995. The childhood picture is still a little edited though.

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[–]c0mpromised💿 popstar connoisseur 💿 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's the best she's ever looked. No amount of filler, botox or whatever the fuck she injects herself with will ever compete with this.

[–]alien-niven 40 points41 points  (2 children)

And one from Getty Images

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[–]linnykenny 21 points22 points  (1 child)

It’s ridiculous how beautiful she is here ugh

[–]LyleLanleysMonorail 110 points111 points  (4 children)

Is it just me or did she look more Armenian when younger?

[–]effie-sue 62 points63 points  (1 child)

I went to school with 2 lovely Armenian girls who were sisters. They were GORGEOUS, and I imagine still are. This photo reminds me a lot of them.

[–]Legal_MajorMajor 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yes, I’m half-Armenian just like Kim, and I have very fair skin and dark hair. My sister has dark olive skin. I think Kim is naturally very fair but has been using tanner forever to look more like Kourtney who got the more olive complexion.

[–]Searwyn_T 31 points32 points  (0 children)

She hadn't removed her Armenian-ness with plastic surgery yet

[–]sleepingsharkss 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Facetuned Kim Kardashian in 1995*

Fixed it for ya

[–]LetterheadThen8518Kim, there’s people that are dying. 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Kim K was so pretty. Didn't ever need any surgeries.

[–]Topwingwoman2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

She looks a lot more like Kourtney here. Kim and I are the same age. I did NOT look like that in 1995. She must have never had the ugly duckling phase.

[–]InternetAddict104Because, after all, I am the bitch 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Kourtney really got the best work done because she still looks the most like herself and old pics of Kim just continuously prove it

[–]NotAsBrightlyLit 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Wow, she looks fantastic. I wish she'd left everything (face, hair, nose, skin, etc) alone.

[–]actuallyimogene 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Her “dopest on the rope… dopest on the ropest…. Most beautiful little girl…” era

[–]Flat_Poem_1668 31 points32 points  (2 children)

Classic 90s grunge

[–]lphchld 16 points17 points  (1 child)

I was thinking chola, but grunge also works.

[–]fallopianrules 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The prettiest I've ever seen her. Kind of mad she went under the knife to have more "white" features. Literally all of the Kardashians have shed their natural beauty for the knife (when they legitimately didnt need it). My older sister was a model & her shots exemplify similar characteristics. She didn't get work done because she's too poor. She is GORGEOUS. she is almost 40 and everyone thinks she's younger than my 25 year old sister.

[–]xxyourbestbetxx 6 points7 points  (0 children)

TIL this family alters their throwback pics. That's hilarious and sad at the same time. Kim's original issue face was basically perfect.

[–]PlentyDrawer 16 points17 points  (1 child)

All I see in this picture is how much North resembles her mom. This is North’s face.

[–]6122000 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Pre surgery Kim was stunning!

[–]mel-06 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I didn’t know who she was I would look at the photo and think she is Latina

[–]Better_Island_4119 17 points18 points  (0 children)

this look > any amount of plastic surgery

[–]sorryitspickles 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I actually never noticed how much North looks like her!

[–]abc123doraemi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I see North!

[–]NotQute 29 points30 points  (8 children)

Take a shot for every plastic surgery lamenting comment

[–]discolights[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Comment on a post about a Kardashian/Jenner without mentioning plastic surgery challenge (impossible)

[–]spicy_fairy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

wow she was stunning

[–]Nodebunny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

such a cute throwback pic though.

[–]AbleDragonfruit4767 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never looked better

[–]criavolver_01 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could you imagine being Kim and looking at her original face? The anguish she must feel knowing her surgeons hate her. From the wonky eye and hip 😐.