‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ family members including mother Kris Jenner, siblings Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, and Rob Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and their growing broods, said bye to a historic reality TV after 20 seasons on Thursday.
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The family’s flagship series aired its first episode on October 14, 2007, and has followed Kim Kardashian and her A-list family through all of their ups and downs, business ventures, romantic entanglements, and more.
The final episodes have been full of emotional moments as the family prepared to say farewell to the fans who have followed them since day one, as well as the production staff who helped them give an inside look at their lives.
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“We’ve spent the last 15 years with most of our production (staff) that are with us every single day in very intimate situations, and they’re my extended family, ” Khloe shared in Thursday’s series finale.
“It’s really, really special in my opinion, but it’s wild to even know how much I’ve gone through with all of you guys by my side. It’s crazy.”
“It was a good run,” Kylie said during the family’s final filming trip to Lake Tahoe over the holidays. And sister Kendall agreed: “It’s just the best job in the world to be able to work with your family every day.”
The family also marked the end of the “KUWTK” era with a time capsule buried at Kim’s Calabasas home, in which each family member placed an item that reminded them of their time on the show, reports ETCanada..
Kim said, “This was the first time that I ventured out on my own, and it was so scary for me, but I did it, and I fell in love with the creative progress.”
As she looked back on the series, which encompassed countless business ventures, two marriages and the births of all four of her children, Kim couldn’t help but marvel at how much has changed.
“These last 14 years have gone by so fast,” she said, looking back on how much she’s evolved from the self-described “princess” of the early seasons of “KUTWK”. “I have no regrets. This was the best decade and a half of my life.”
Kourtney said that “This show has really meant so much to me, because I feel like without the hard moments, there’s no growth.”
“I don’t know what’s gonna happen in the future. I know that I feel so grateful and happy and thankful that we’ve had such an amazing job and life. I feel like we’ve all grown and learned and experienced so much, and so much that we wouldn’t have experienced without the show,” she added.
Kris Jenner had to memorialize the certificate she framed after trademarking the title, thanking all of her kids for allowing her to be “such an integral part of your business lives.” “I’ll never forget it,” she shared.
“This is a period in my life that has meant so much to me,” Kris said of the show. “When I think about season 1 to season 20, those are my most magical memories… No one knows what tomorrow is going to bring, but I have a grateful heart. ”
Kendell said that she felt like “this was my pinnacle growth years, where I really learned a lot.”
“Even if we haven’t been the biggest parts of (the show),” she told younger sister Kylie as the pair discussed the show coming to a close, “it’s just always been a consistent part of our lives. It’s just the best job in the world to be able to work with your family every day,” she said.