Kim Kardashian Handwrote Corrections All Over Her Own Biography, and the Details Are Wild

A new Kim Kardashian biography is coming, and the story behind how it got made is almost as juicy as the book itself. Journalist Jonathan Van Meter spent five years working on‘Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future,’but he only got Kim’s cooperation after securing Anna Wintour’s blessing first. Once Kim was on board, she didn’t just sit for interviews. She received advance copies of chapters and returned them covered in handwritten corrections, fact-checking her own life story line by line.

The book also comes with some notable omissions. A planned Kanye West interview was scrapped, with Van Meter calling the rapper an“unreliable narrator.”And a 10-page chapter about Kim’s daughter North West was cut entirely because everyone involved felt she was too young to consent to being included. Even Caitlyn Jenner’s detailed memories of Kim’s childhood came with a caveat from Kim herself:“Let’s see if it’s accurate.”

So the big question here is whether a biography can still be independent when the subject gets to review the draft. It’s a rare look at how a celebrity with total image control negotiates access, and it’s sparking debate about transparency versus spin. Would you still read a biography if you knew the star edited it first? Let us know in the comments.