What, like, it’s hard?
Kim Kardashian was a guest lecturer at Harvard Brand School on Friday to discuss the success of her multibillion-dollar SKIMS shapewear business, but the internet was not pleased.
The reality star and co-founder of SKIMS, Jens Grede, arrived in Boston to speak with students enrolled in the Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer course, her spokeswoman confirmed to The Post.
Although NBC10 Boston reported that several seminar attendees gave Kardashian a “A” for her nearly two-hour address about SKIMS, which was valued at $3.2 billion a year ago, Twitter trolls criticized the law student and Harvard for bringing the “talentless” businesswoman.
“Kim Kardashian was born into wealth,” proclaimed a third individual. “Tried to use a sex tape to launch an acting or singing career, but neither was successful.” Kim K and her family are shameless enough to make a scripted reality television program profitable. Harvard is now as obnoxious as the Kardashians.”
“The terms ‘Kardashian’ and ‘Harvard’ should never, ever, ever exist in the same sentence,” another user remarked, while another added, “I’d hate to pay that Harvard tuition $$$$ just to receive her as a speaker. Do Better, Harvard.”
“Lim k on speaking at Harvard: ‘oh my god, you guys, like I am actually going to speak at Harvard, like oh my god, this is such a biggg dealll. (in that whiny voice)’”
Many commenters questioned the validity of Kardashian’s advise, given she does not possess a college degree.
“Educated them in what? Literally following every sentence,” one person joked.
“And provides guidance on what? How to ride on the coattails of acclaimed parents?” Another person commented on Robert Kardashian’s relatives and the ever-present “momager” Kris Jenner.
“How to sell your soul 101,” offered another.
“Get your arse in gear and work that 9-to-5,” said another, recalling her controversial and widely mocked counsel to working women from last year.
Liz, though, told NBC10 Boston that she had learnt a great deal from Kardashian.
She told the newspaper, “I believe many people do not respect her as a co-leader of a multibillion-dollar company.”
Liz continued, “Just being able to learn from someone who has built such a successful business was incredibly exciting, and the fact that there were no cameras in the room and we could have a candid conversation made it even more special.”
The Post has reached out to Harvard and professors’ representatives for comment.
Despite aggressively studying to become a lawyer, Kardashian did not visit Harvard Law School, but she did replicate Reese Witherspoon’s “Legally Blonde” Harvard admissions video for Halloween 2019.
In 2013, she also attended her then-boyfriend Kanye West to his speech at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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