Kim Kardashian reveals she didn't pass her first-year law exams: 'I am a failure'
- Kim Kardashian said on "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" that she failed her first-year law exams.
- The reality TV star has been studying to be a lawyer since 2018.
- Kim said on Instagram on Wednesday that she wasn't "giving up" and was preparing to take it again.
Kim Kardashian says she feels like a "failure" for not passing her first-year law exams.
Kim opens up to Kourtney and Khloé about her law school setback in Thursday's episode of "Keeping Up With The Kardashians." A preview clip of the conversation was shared on the show's official YouTube page on Wednesday.
"So you guys, I did not pass the baby bar," Kim, who has been studying to be a lawyer since 2018, told her sisters.
"If you do law school the way I'm doing it, it's a four-year program instead of your typical three-year program and after year one, you have to take the baby bar," the reality TV star explained in a separate confessional paired with the scene.
"The fact that I spent all that time away from my kids," Kim said of her preparation for the exam. "I can't do it again, I don't have time."
Kim says she didn't fail her 'baby bar' by 'that much'
Kim previously told Vogue in 2019 that she plans to take the California state bar exams in 2022 and was putting in 18 hours a week of supervised study.
As Kim isn't doing the "typical three-year [law school] program" she referred to in the chat with her sisters on Thursday's episode, she is interning with human-rights attorney Jessica Jackson's criminal justice reform advocacy group, #cut50.
Aspiring lawyers in California, like Kim, don't necessarily need to go to law school as long as they apprentice with a law office or a sitting judge.
"You needed a 560, you got a 474," Jackson is seen telling Kim over video chat in a flashback included in the scene about law school.
"That's extremely close on a test that most people are not taking in the middle of a pandemic," Jackson added.
Kim, however, is less positive about her results and simply tells Jackson, "I am a failure."
Both Kourtney and Khloé offer Kim encouragement after hearing that she didn't pass her exam, with the oldest Kardashian sister saying that their late father, Robert Kardashian (who was an entertainment lawyer, best known for serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team), would be proud of Kim's dream to practice law regardless of the results.
Since she filmed the scene around October, Kim appears to have changed her mind about not "having time" to take the exam again.
In a question-and-answer session on her Instagram stories on Wednesday, a follower asked the billionaire businesswoman how she was "finding the bar exams."
"Extremely difficult," Kim responded. "Unfortunately, I haven't passed yet but I am not giving up and I'm preparing to take it again soon."
In her 2019 Vogue profile, Kim shared that she became interested in studying law after working with former President Donald Trump to help Alice Marie Johnson be released from jail in June 2018.