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"On October 21, 1980, a star was born, and that star&amp;#039;s name was Kim Kardashian. Now, the reality icon might get her fair share of bad press, but wouldn&amp;#039;t the world be a boring place without her? So to celebrate her 33rd birthday, we came up with 33 reasons why, actually, Kimberly Noel Kardashian, we love you... 1. She was on Dancing with the Stars.      Sure, her brother Rob might have done better on the competition than she did (he picked up second place, while Kim was tragically the third celeb to be voted out of her season). But no-one was more brilliantly self-aware than Kim when she shook her booty in a terrible mambo to &amp;#039;Baby Got Back&amp;#039;.  2. She didn&amp;#039;t let her sex tape define her. Yes, it&amp;#039;s a constant stick for her critics to beat her with, but Kim Kardashian kind of rocked the Kim K Superstar debacle. While she&amp;#039;s admitted that she was humiliated and devastated by the leak, she&amp;#039;s built such a career that it&amp;#039;s not really the first thing you think of any more. Plus, she didn&amp;#039;t back down, but sued and won $5m against the adult film company that published it. So there. 3. She can rock flour.  Getting flour bombed at a red carpet event is probably quite embarrassing, especially given that there are hundreds of cameras waiting right there to snap your humiliation. So good on Kim, who still somehow looked great and also joked wittily: &amp;quot;Like I said to my make-up artist, I wanted more powder, and that&amp;#039;s a whole lot of translucent powder right there.&amp;quot; Then she very reasonably pointed out that she had been supporting a campaign to get women into jobs and there were other better ways for the assailant to make their point. Way to take the high road. 4. She got her bum X-rayed.  Talk about drastic measures. Kim got so fed up with people claiming she&amp;#039;d had implants in her famously curvaceous behind that she got an X-ray to prove it&amp;#039;s all natural. If only more celebrities got their body parts X-rayed for our entertainment. 5. She&amp;#039;s been in some of our favourite shows.   OK. Maybe favourite is pushing it a little bit. But hey, Kim&amp;#039;s done her fair share of acting on television, popping up in shows like 90210, 30 Rock, Drop Dead Diva and CSI: NY. Next up? She&amp;#039;ll be voicing an alien on American Dad. 6. She gave her wedding gifts to charity.  Admittedly, Kim Kardashian&amp;#039;s short-lived wedding to Kris Humphries was not one of her higher points. On the other hand, once she realised she&amp;#039;d made a mistake at least she did something about it - oh, and she donated all her wedding gifts to charity. Which seems like a nice thing to do. 7. Kim campaigns for the Armenian Genocide to be recognised. Kim is of Armenian heritage and has consistently lobbied for the Armenian Genocide - in which 1.5m Armenians were murdered - to be recognised by the US government. She wrote about it on her blog, tweeted her millions of followers and has often mentioned her Armenian roots on Keeping up with the Kardashians. Not to be sniffed at. 8. She&amp;#039;s besties with Jonathan Cheban.  Kim&amp;#039;s been besties with PR man Jonathan Cheban for ages, and it&amp;#039;s nice to see that she didn&amp;#039;t drop him after her profile surged dramatically, especially given that they&amp;#039;re always pretty insane together. Mind you, we&amp;#039;d be a bit worried if we were Jonathan, given that Scott Disick got to murder him in Kanye West&amp;#039;s American Psycho-esque Yeezus promo. 9. She stayed cool on Punk&amp;#039;d.  Now, if someone was moaning that we&amp;#039;d just blown up their car, we might have been a little less cool than Kim, who was the epitome of calm and collected. Our favourite part is when an actor claims she&amp;#039;s just lost a fan, and she shrugs like it&amp;#039;s no big deal. So zen. 10. She was linked to Peter Andre. Kim Kardashian has had her fair share of tabloid romances (anyone remember the Cristiano Ronaldo speculation?) but our favourite alleged beau has to be &amp;#039;Mysterious Girl&amp;#039; crooner Peter Andre, best known in the UK for his marriage to Katie Price. Unfortunately she later tweeted that it wasn&amp;#039;t true and even added extra pain by referring to Andre as &amp;quot;this guy&amp;quot;. Still, what if, eh? 11. She is the undeniable best at selfies.    Sorry, selfie fans. Apart from, possibly, this guy, no-one is better at a good selfie than Ms Kim Kardashian. Sure, she looks great all dolled up in a fancy photoshoot, but those pictures are nothing compared to a flattering angle and the perfect hold-phone-in-hand stance. 12. She takes risks fashion-wise.  You can always rely on Kim Kardashian to rock a surprising or intriguing outfit. Now, not all of these work - see the above Met Ball as one slightly regrettable example - but you have to respect her for trying new things and not just sticking to a boring LBD. 13. The Kardashian lip-syncing videos.      Also: E.T. Amazing. 14. She has a better ugly cry than Carrie off Homeland.  And she has no shame about showing it off. Respect to Kim for daring to go make-up-free and in full-on wail mode on a television show that has millions of viewers. For those people who say Keeping up with the Kardashians is fake: yes, probably, but you couldn&amp;#039;t fake that cry face. 15. She actually eloped when she was a teenager. It doesn&amp;#039;t seem like a very well-known fact that Kim has actually been married twice - her first marriage was to music producer Damon Thomas in 2000, when she was just 19. The marriage broke down messily and the duo divorced in 2004, but eloping? Kim has clearly always had a sense of the epic. 16. She&amp;#039;s always been pro-gay marriage. Back in 2009, Kim hit out at the Supreme Court for being &amp;quot;close-minded&amp;quot; by upholding California&amp;#039;s Proposition 8 (which has since been rescinded). &amp;quot;Everyone... gay, straight, bisexual, transgendered - everyone should have equal rights to marry who they want to,&amp;quot; she wrote. Very nice. 17. The Kardashian Christmas Cards.  You can keep your eggnog, your figgy pudding and your holly and ivy - one of the best bits of the Christmas season is undoubtedly the arrival of the Kardashian-Jenner Christmas card. Look at 2012&amp;#039;s sparkle! We can only imagine how exciting this year&amp;#039;s will be. 18. Paris Hilton drama. So, basically, Kim Kardashian used to be like totally BFFs with Paris, and she was even on The Simple Life and everything, and then she kind of got more famous, and then Paris sort of dissed KUWTK by saying The Simple Life was the best reality show ever, and then it continued to get a bit more awkward. Think about how much more Paris Hilton we could have been exposed to if Kim hadn&amp;#039;t kind of taken her place. (They made up this year, apparently, which makes things even better.) 19. She released one of the best songs ever.      When we say &amp;quot;one of the best songs ever&amp;quot;, we might not entirely mean that. Until you have listened to Kim repeatedly drawl &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going out tonight&amp;quot; on Kim &amp;amp; Kourtney Take New York you do not know the true meaning of horror. Weirdly, though, &amp;#039;Jam (Turn It Up)&amp;#039; has become something of a &amp;#039;classic&amp;#039; with Kim&amp;#039;s remarkably bored vocal, production by The-Dream and baffling vocals like &amp;quot;And I&amp;#039;m goin&amp;#039; to work like I&amp;#039;m paying my bills, biiiiiilllls&amp;quot;, which does not seem like a particularly fun night out. But given that half the profits went to a children&amp;#039;s hospital, we can&amp;#039;t slam it too much. 20. She took being mocked on South Park really well.      The Kardashians popped up in South Park (a true sign you&amp;#039;ve made it) and all three of the main sisters were unceremoniously murdered along with Kris and Bruce Jenner. But Kim took it all in good humour, saying she was &amp;quot;honoured&amp;quot; to be in the show and taking pride in the fact that she&amp;#039;d survived the longest. Maybe she should give Kanye some hints about how to take South Park spoofs... 21. She sparks headlines like: &amp;quot;Kardashian denies causing smell on plane.&amp;quot; You can read that story here. Which other famous face would spark as many crazy headlines as Kim Kardashian? You can&amp;#039;t fault her entertainment value. (Oh, and if you were wondering, the smell rumour was burrito-based - &amp;quot;I absolutely hate burritos!&amp;quot;) 22. She was nominated for an award for her acting.      Okay, when we say &amp;quot;award&amp;quot;, we really mean a Golden Raspberry for her role in Disaster Movie (alongside Carmen Electra.) Whether this was fair or not you can judge by watching the above cinematic genius, in which she and Carmen wear interesting outfits and wrestle. We&amp;#039;re saying nothing. Anyway, Kim - who lost out to, er, Paris Hilton (awkward) - took the whole thing very well and said she was &amp;quot;honoured&amp;quot; again. And if nothing else, the role led to the jarring sight of seeing Kim Kardashian at Comic-Con. 23. She terrified us all with her vampire facial. Don&amp;#039;t say Kim Kardashian never goes the whole hog when it comes to beauty - even if it involves getting blood drawn from her arm and re-injected into her face. The photographs were horrifying - and obviously it was all captured on camera. Excuse us while we go rock back and forth in a corner for a while. 24. She started out as a stylist - and had famous clients. Before she was a famous type, Kim had a &amp;#039;proper job&amp;#039; - not only does she own the DASH boutiques with her sisters Kourtney and Khloe, but she also worked as a stylist and personal shopper, choosing looks for people like Brandy and Lindsay Lohan. She&amp;#039;s been on both sides of the fame line, then! 25. She handles the paparazzi harshly but fairly.  Kim&amp;#039;s always accepted the role of the paparazzi in her career - only on the last episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians was she saying: &amp;quot;For the most part I deal with it because it&amp;#039;s part of the business.&amp;quot; But when they go too far (like when she was pregnant), she&amp;#039;s not afraid of telling them to, for example, &amp;quot;shut the f**king door&amp;quot; or speaking out when they actually threaten her life. Which seems fair. 26. She&amp;#039;s classy when people criticise her. Now, lots of people agreed with Jon Hamm when he complained that &amp;quot;stupidity is being celebrated&amp;quot; and mentioned Kim by name. But obviously Kim wasn&amp;#039;t too happy to hear his comments. Still, instead of starting a tiresome feud she restrained herself to calling his comments &amp;quot;careless&amp;quot;, said she respects him and his opinion, and then made up with him on the set of 30 Rock. See? Classy. 27. She likes to pretend she&amp;#039;s a spy. On more than one episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, we&amp;#039;ve seen Kim team up with private investigator Jake - who, incidentally, has fantastic facial hair - to form the best crime-fighting duo ever. Admittedly, her spying on brother-in-almost-law Scott Disick got her into big trouble with big sis Kourtney, but who wouldn&amp;#039;t want to watch a television show of Kim Kardashian: PI, in which she rocks a Burberry trenchcoat and cuts eye-holes in issues of Vogue? 28. She is going out with Kanye West.  Only like the best celebrity couple out there right now. We&amp;#039;re properly fascinated with Kimye (even that name is great), and Kim&amp;#039;s even managed to show the softie side of Kanye (he&amp;#039;s gushing about her all over the place). How sweet. OK, so there&amp;#039;s also the &amp;#039;sexy side&amp;#039; - whether it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;HEADING HOME NOW&amp;quot; or a bit of asset-admiration - that perhaps we could do without. Let&amp;#039;s focus on the sweet. 29. She&amp;#039;s always willing to educate herself. FINE. We&amp;#039;re willing to admit that the reports that Kim Kardashian was reading Nietzsche to impress Kanye are probably rubbish. But we love them anyway. I mean, we can barely even spell Nietzsche. 30. She&amp;#039;s really great at buying presents.   Not only has Kim bought Kanye a $750,000 Lamborghini for his birthday - not too shabby - but she went super-personal for Father&amp;#039;s Day, picking him up a money-can&amp;#039;t-buy present in two Apple mice signed by the company&amp;#039;s co-founders Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs (in other words, Kanye&amp;#039;s idols). Pretty damn impressive. 31. She&amp;#039;s friends with Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9.  Who wouldn&amp;#039;t want to be friends with Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9? Kim met the superstar via Kanye, obviously, but despite the boring rumours that they don&amp;#039;t get along they&amp;#039;ve pretty much denied that and seem to be getting on swimmingly. Seriously. Imagine being friends with Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9. 32. She&amp;#039;s not afraid of going BIG in home decor. If you&amp;#039;re a superstar like Kim, you have to make a bit of a splash, don&amp;#039;t you? Which is why we were thrilled to hear that she and Kanye have splashed out $750,000 on gold-plated toilets, have fit a Swarovski-encrusted fridge in their kitchen and spent a further $1m on beds. Plus, when we got a glimpse into their new abode on Keeping up with the Kardashians, there was a wall covered in &amp;quot;greenery&amp;quot;. Who needs wallpaper? 33. North West. Adorable, adorable, adorable North West.   Look at North West - beautifully named, beautifully coiffed, beautifully ensconced like a burrito (except, of course, for the fact that Kim doesn&amp;#039;t like burritos; maybe North is more like a wrap). She is the best. Who knows where North will be in 33 years? We can&amp;#039;t wait to find out... "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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