Somehow Kim Kardashian is turning 40, and although we don’t have her skincare secrets, we do have a whole host of facts about the reality TV mogul which you probably don’t know. So, in honour of the Queen of Selfies’ birthday, here are 40 facts about Kimmy K!

1. Kim K is actually related to Scottish royalty. She is a relative of Highland hero Rob Roy MacGregory and is a descendent from Scottish royalty, the Daily Record reported. Is this why Penelope’s middle name is Scotland? So many questions.

2. She attended Marymount High School, which was a Roman Catholic all-girls school in LA where tuition is currently around Dhs100,000 a year.

3. When she was a professional wardrobe organiser, her first customer was Brandy Norwood.

4. She is the most involved in the production of KUWTK out of all the sisters. “I think if you ask the crew, I probably product the most, because I know what my sisters might not be sharing”, she told The Hollywood Reporter.

5. She eats a plant based diet at home, but does let herself indulge when eating out.

6. She loved the 90s snack Dunkaroos.

7. Her favourite ice-cream flavour is Haagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche.

 

8. Her favourite movie is Beaches featuring Better Midler.

9. Her first boyfriend was TJ Jackson, nephew of Michael Jackson.

10. Kim was the first Karjenner Caitlyn told about her transition as Caitlyn found her the ‘most empathetic and easiest to talk to’.

11. When she gave birth to daughter North, she sent some friends an image of a baby which was not North to see if any of the so-called friends sold the images to the press. According to The Daily Mail, at least one person did. Wow!

12. She opened the branch of Millions of Milkshakes in the Dubai Mall, and it was her first trip to the Middle East.

13. Kim’s first tweet was on the 21st March 2009 and it read ‘Hey guys it’s Kim Kardashian! I finally signed up for Twitter! There are a few fakes so just know this is the real me!!!”.

14. Kim’s favourite Kanye West song is Only One.

15. Kim was born Kimberley Noel Kardashian but has now leagally changed her name to Kim Kardashian West.

16. Kim’s favourite emoji is the sparkle.

17. Kim and Kanye met in 2003 through mutual friend (and Ray J’s sister…) Brandy, in 2003.

18. Kim performed as Princess Leia in Kanye West’s hip-hop puppet show called Alligator Boots. We have no idea either.

19. When asked if she would ever get a tattoo, she replied “you don’t put a bumper sticker on a Bentley”.

20. She has 6 body piercings: one in her bellybutton, one in her right ear and four in her left ear.

21. Kim still used a Blackberry Bold (and I had a stash of them which she had bought on eBay) until her last one died in 2016.

22. Her first feature in a film was in disaster film spoof Disaster Movie in 2008.

23. She wears a size 37.5 shoe.

24. Her favourite actor is Tom Hanks.

25. Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard is Kim’s godfather.

26. Kim and her long time make-up artist Mario Dedivanovic met on the 5th April 2008, and launched their make-up collaboration exactly 10 years later on the 5th April 2018.

27. Kim’s first car was a white BMW which she received on her 16th birthday from her Dad.

28. She took her first selfie in 1984. She confirmed this in her book, Selfish.

29. Kim’s first goal was to be on the cover of Cosmopolitan. Her publicist at the time, told her to get some more realistic goals. She fired the publicist.

30. The salad and cold drink you see her eat often on KUWTK is a chef salad with a mango iced tea from Health Nut in Calabasas.

31. She’s a huge Elizabeth Taylor fan and purchased three of her jade jewellery for Dhs240,000.

32. She blow dries all of her jewellery with a hair dryer before she puts it on as she ‘can’t stand putting on cold jewellery’. (Ambien)

33. For last year’s Met Gala, Kim wore Lilly Lashes in the shade Goddess.

34. Her favourite restaurant in Paris is Ferdi, who can also count Kylie Jenner and Rihanna as clients.

35. Kim doesn’t like spicy food, and also don’t like cilantro and blue cheese.

36. When Kim dated Reggie Bush in 2010 they had a boxer dog called Rocky. After the split, Kim had custody of the dog but it hasn’t been seen online for years and years.

37. Kim also had a pet chihuahua called Dolce which was killed by a coyote in 2012.

38. Kim’s first Instagram picture was a picture of herself blowing a kiss on February 20th 2012.

39. Her makeup takes an hour and a half every day.

40. Kim’s biggest regret was releasing her 2011 single Jam (Turn It Up). Surely not Kim…