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Kim Kardashian Reveals Her ‘Body Was Breaking Down' due to Nasty Injury
Yara Sameh Kim Kardashian is opening up about the 'chronic pain' she suffered for years while recovering from a 'debilitating' shoulder injury. 'I'm so excited to share with you guys my stem cell journey. Two years ago, I tore my shoulder while lifting weights, leaving me in debilitating pain,' she wrote in an Instagram post on Friday. The reality star, 44, explained that she 'tried everything to find relief' before learning about stem cell therapy and meeting with specialist Dr. Adeel Khan. After beginning treatment, which includes using stem cells to repair or replace damaged tissues and organs, Kardashian said she saw 'immediate' results and 'regained full range of motion.' 'My shoulder has felt completely normal ever since,' she said, crediting Dr. Khan and his team of medical experts, whom she recently went back to see to address chronic back pain that she's been suffering from for years. 'The Muse stem cell treatment was a game-changer once again. I experienced relief right away, and the unbearable pain is finally gone,' she shared with her followers. 'If you're struggling with back pain, I can't recommend this treatment enough – it's transformed my life when I thought my body was breaking down.' The slew of photos featured the 'Kardashians' star with Dr. Khan as well as her sister Khloé, at the treatment center in Mexico. Kardashian recognized that the treatment might not be accessible or right for everyone and that her fans should do their 'homework and talk to medical professionals.' 'Here's to hope, healing, and the future of science,' the Skims co-founder concluded the emotional message. It seems that the serious shoulder injury from 2023 didn't stop the The 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' star from doing her grueling workouts. The Skkn CEO revealed that she hit the gym just a few weeks after breaking her shoulder and tearing a tendon in August of that year. 'So we are starting our rehabbing today and our workouts because I gotta get back in the gym,' she said on her Instagram Story while pointing the camera at her trainer, Melissa Alcantara, who had the 'same thing happen to her.' 'Nothing is going to keep me down,' Kardashian added. The 'American Horror Story' actress even showed off her gymnastics skills by doing a cartwheel a few weeks prior to that, seemingly in the thick of all the pain. Kardashian has been under fire for her intense health and fitness routines in the past, especially when she lost 16 pounds in three weeks in order to fit into Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress for the 2022 Met Gala. Her personal trainer defended her though, claiming that she lost the weight the 'healthy way.' 'I think one of the misconceptions is — she works really hard. I was there through the process and it wasn't like a starving yourself type of thing,' Don-A-Matrix explained in May of that year. 'She's been on a real balanced diet and at times she wouldn't eat as much, but then the second thing was she went to the gym and put the work in.' read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Israeli-Linked Hadassah Clinic in Moscow Treats Wounded Iranian IRGC Fighters Arts & Culture "Jurassic World Rebirth" Gets Streaming Date News China Launches Largest Ever Aircraft Carrier News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia Business Egyptian Pound Undervalued by 30%, Says Goldman Sachs Videos & Features Tragedy Overshadows MC Alger Championship Celebration: One Fan Dead, 11 Injured After Stadium Fall Lifestyle Get to Know 2025 Eid Al Adha Prayer Times in Egypt Arts & Culture South Korean Actress Kang Seo-ha Dies at 31 after Cancer Battle Arts & Culture Lebanese Media: Fayrouz Collapses after Death of Ziad Rahbani Sports Get to Know 2025 WWE Evolution Results
Telegraph
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
How Kim Kardashian failed to sell her beauty look – and the celebrity brands that succeeded
Utter the name 'Beau Domaine', and you are likely to be met with blank stares. Its owner, Brad Pitt, may be a household name, but the skincare brand launched by the actor in 2023 has failed to set the world on fire. Or even the bathroom shelf. In this, he is in good – albeit surprising – company. Like Pitt, Kim Kardashian isn't over-familiar with under-achievement. At the age of 44, the world's most successful reality television star helms a multitude of business ventures, the most vibrant of which is Skims, the shapewear brand that achieved a £3 billion valuation four years after launching in 2019. As she has been a billionaire since 2021 with more than 700 international trademarks, 'failure' isn't really in Kim's lexicon. Until now. While it would be overstating things to say that her beauty range, the perplexingly named 'SKKN by Kim', has failed, it's certainly underperforming. Launched in partnership with Coty in 2022, it's been hit by a slew of criticisms, with customers complaining that it's overpriced (a lipstick is £28), derivative of other brands (the pink packaging is a cliché) and of questionable quality (on Reddit, users complain that the £90 'Night Oil' clogs their pores). While the packaging would certainly look sleek on your bathroom shelf, many claim it's a case of form over function, difficult to use and less sustainable than Kardashian claims, leading to allegations of greenwashing. But Kardashian is nothing if not a mistress of reinvention. If at first you don't succeed? You try again – by dint of a judicious rebrand. Last month, an announcement went out on Skkn's Instagram page saying that it had been acquired by Skims, adding that fans should 'follow @skims for updates while we work to create something new'. The move comes as no surprise to beauty watchers: it's long been known that Kardashian was unhappy with elements of her Coty partnership, and wanted to regain full control of the brand (under the Coty deal, she owned 80 per cent). Coty, in turn, was rumoured not to be happy with her, believing she was remiss in promoting the range, being overly focused on the success of Skims. Given that Coty had spent £150 million acquiring a 20 per cent stake in 2021, the beauty giant's feelings were, perhaps, understandable. While attaining full ownership makes sense, it puts Kardashian in the position of having to analyse closely what went wrong, and shoulder the entire responsibility for righting it. As hers is the face that has defined the social media definition of 'beauty' over the past decade, Skkn's success should have been guaranteed. That it wasn't has left Kardashian with a red face that has nothing to do with the over-application of blush. For the respected international make-up artist Caroline Barnes, Kardashian's main issue is that she was too slow off the mark, not least having been beaten to the punch by her half-sister, whose Kylie Cosmetics range, launched in 2015, achieved huge success in a similar niche, particularly with its cult Lip Kits. 'A lot of the people that followed Kim back in the day have grown up and evolved,' notes Barnes. 'They either don't want that style of make-up any more, or they can't carry it off, so it's not of interest to them. Also, similar colour palettes are available now on the high street, in great textures and at great terms. Skkn doesn't feel new. By contrast, Skims was completely groundbreaking in terms of its colours and its shapewear, and the fact that whatever age you are, you can still aspire to have an hourglass figure like Kim's. The rules for how you paint your face are very different.' Besides, a new set of rules is in vogue, ones that adhere more to notions of 'clean beauty' and natural, glowing skin than heavy-handed contouring. In 2025, the celebrity brands that most resonate with customers tend to abide by these decrees. Launched in 2022, Hailey Bieber 's Rhode has enjoyed huge success by placing an emphasis on healthy skin, while Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty, launched in 2020 (2022 in the UK), has been praised for its light and nourishing formulations. It's currently valued at £1.5 billion, and a tube of its Soft Pinch Liquid Blush sells every four seconds. But Kardashian also has to reckon with Rihanna, 37, the bestselling female recording artist of the 21st century, who has shown herself to be every bit as astute a businesswoman as Kim. 'The biggest success story in celebrity make-up brands by far is Fenty,' says the make-up artist Alex Babsky, whose clients include Jodie Comer, Salma Hayek and Florence Pugh. 'It really made an impact by landing as a complete, fully formed make-up range, and genuinely offered something new with its richly pigmented products that worked for all skin tones and an extended shade range that has since become the industry standard. There is very little that's truly new or innovative in make-up, so in an already crowded market, a celebrity make-up brand invariably becomes an exercise in simply presenting familiar products in a way which most speaks to a particular celebrity's fans.' Many would say that Kim's products are, indeed, over-familiar – largely because they bear resemblance to those of her original make-up artist, Mario Dedivanovic. Launched in 2020, his brand, Makeup by Mario, was the culmination of 20 years of knowledge and expertise of the sort that his most famous client could never emulate. 'Mario launched an incredible range,' says Barnes. 'If you wanted to copy that Kim Kardashian look, those would be the products that you would have gone for initially.' As for what Kardashian should do to make Skkn a success, bringing it under the umbrella of the successful Skims range is a good start. Rather than putting her name to derivative products, she should capitalise on Skims' existing strengths, and look for synergy between the two brands. 'No one needs yet another glam beauty brand with a gazillion shades of lipstick and a vast eye shadow palette,' notes The Telegraph 's beauty director, Sonia Haria. 'If I were Kim, I'd align her beauty range to Skims in a very obvious, intentional way. She should create 'shapewear for the face' – lifting skincare packed with firming peptides, sculpting tools for sharper cheek bones, contouring make-up that's like Pilates for the face. She should also drop the existing name and call it Skims Beauty, so that customers can buy a sculpting serum and skin tool at the same time as they're buying their multipack of shaping knickers.' With the global beauty market projected to be worth more than £512 billion in 2025, Kim has a lot to play for. Let's see how her plan shapes up.
The Independent
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Kim Kardashian makes rare comment about Damon Thomas divorce: ‘I had no money'
Kim Kardashian has recalled her sister Khloé giving her $6,000 after her divorce from Damon Thomas left her with 'no money.' In Thursday's episode of The Kardashians on Hulu, the 44-year-old Skims founder opened up about Khloé's charitable act after her split from the record producer in 2003. 'When Khloé was maybe 4 or 5 years old, she got this piggy bank in the shape of a Coca-Cola bottle. We would put so much money in it,' Kim remembered. 'When I was getting my first divorce, I moved out and had no money. 'I was like 21, and she gave me her Coke bottle,' Kim said of Khloe, who was around 19 at the time. 'We were up all night counting it and it was $6,000 and it was enough for me to get a downpayment on my apartment. She gave me her life savings at age 21.' Remembering the emotional moment, Khloé said: 'She was crying in my room and I was just like, 'I have this so let's take what is in here and go to the bank to cash it. Let's use this money for your divorce.' I gave her all that I got and hopefully helped her.' Kim tied the knot with Thomas, the now 54-year-old record producer, in 2000 when she was only 19, spending three years with him before ultimately deciding to part ways. The two cited 'irreconcilable differences' in their divorce filing. Since then, the Skkn creator has gone to the altar with two other men: Kris Humphries and Kanye West. In 2011, her 'fairytale wedding' with the former NBA star was televised on Keeping up with the Kardashians. The duo stayed married for two years before getting divorced in 2013. Kim then said 'I do' to Kanye West in Paris in 2014. They welcomed four children together — North, 11, Saint, nine, Chicago, six, and Psalm, five — throughout their eight-year marriage before filing for divorce in 2021. Khloé, on the other hand, has only been married once — to former Los Angeles Lakers player Lamar Odom. She and Odom spent a tumultuous seven years together and only recently came face-to-face for the first time since their split in 2016. The dramatic meeting, held at Khloé's friend Malika's house, was captured in the season six premiere of her family's reality show on February 6. According to the on-screen star, Odom was visibly 'nervous' upon seeing her. 'He's sweating,' Khloé said of Odom. 'He seems scared.' Meanwhile, Khloé wasn't as emotional seeing her ex-husband. 'I have dealt with so much trauma in this relationship for years and this was such the love of my life that to learn how to unlove someone — to have to go through all that — it's almost like a death,' she said.
