When I heard that Kim Kardashian had filed for divorce from her husband Kris Humphries, a professional basketball player in the NBA, after just 72 days of marriage, the first thing that came to mind was a money-making publicity stunt! As I searched various news outlets to check out the story, it became more and more clear that this wasn’t a marriage built on love but the “Benjamin’s.”
Various blogs stated Kim filed for divorce because she didn’t want to move to Minnesota, which is where her new husband or soon-to-be ex-husband desires to reside. Okay timeout! Isn’t this something couples talk about a least in the engagement stage? TMZ says they were told the two talked about it but were so wrapped up in wedding planning that it got pushed to the back burner and would get hashed out after the wedding. For me this is a topic of discussion that shouldn’t have waited until after a $10 million wedding. In most relationships a conversation would have gone something like: “We’re going to get married here and after the honeymoon we are going to put our key in the door there” right? So Kim not wanting to move to Minnesota doesn’t make sense to me.
What does make sense is that Kim doesn’t want to leave Los Angeles. Her close knit family and reality star career is in LA and she would have to work twice as hard at her career in Minnesota. What makes matters worse is that Kris was recently scammed out of thousands of dollars from a fraudulent hedge fund scheme. On top of that the NBA’s lockout isn’t making Kris look very good financially either. So I’m not saying they married for each other’s money but I’m sure they both saw the possibilities of their union being a money maker. The couple reportedly sold their wedding photos for $1.5 million and Kim made $100,000 for bridal shower photos.
So for me it’s quite obvious that dollars signs was the motivation for the marriage. No matter how you look at it or what the outcome is, both Kim and Kris will continue to reap the benefits of their 72 day marriage. I’m sure they could have found a better way to make a little change then make a mockery of marriage. However in this case for Kris it might be cheaper to keep her! Kim made a request that their prenuptial agreement be up held and that each party take care of their own legal fees.
Marriage is something serious and should only be entered into for love and no other reason especially not money. If financial gain of any kind is the motivation then you can definitely look to be in the same situation as Kim and Kris.
Did Kim’s new husband not have enough money to keep up with her celebrity status? Do you think it’s okay to marry someone and not have all the important details worked out?
I don’t believe for one moment Kris Humphries knew what he was getting into. He was a believer and was lost during the filming of her reality show. There was a scene showing him not knowing what to do when she left him in the lobby of the hotel as she walked off with her sister. He had been happily falling in love, while kim was happily in lust and following the script handed to her by her mother and Ryan Seacrest. He was unsuspecting and believing he had something good and viable.
I feel for him. He married for life and she married for ratings. This is probably why Reggie Bush did not play along, because he knew at any minute to take what they had seriously was to lend yourself to a real “burning”.Kris really believed she loved him and would follow where he led.
He is young and a fool and remains a fool, because he was blindsided and still wants to make it work. He believed in a forever after.
Rhonda, I’m not so sure that Kris was just that naive. As you said everyone saw what happen with her and Reggie Bush. So for him to say he was totally blindsided…un un..maybe that she was going to lower the boom so quickly yeah but for her to leave like she did un un…
Ayanna. I believe he was totally blindsided. He is arrogant. He believed he was special and could control what happened in the marriage. He was a traditional kind of guy. He bought that she was a traditional girl from a close knit family and felt he was better suited to them than Reggie and/or Ray J.
When he asked Bruce for Kim’s hand in marriage, his ego swelled at Bruce’s reaction and response. It painted him in a better light than Lamar and how he and Khloe handled their engagement and marriage. He was smelling himself. Then, what does he do? He learns Kim was married as a teenager and it gave him pause and he went against his gut instinct, maybe because he had already let the cat out of the bag with Bruce or maybe because he was that deeply in love with Kim and asked her anyway.
I think I want to believe in his ignorance, because he was so smug and prideful and needed to have the air let out of his sails.
Okay Rhonda so there goes another problem. There is no place for arrogance in marriage especially in a case like this. Seeking to change someone is absolutely a no no in a relationship. You sometimes have to look at your mate as an “as is” package. If that package is not what you’re look for then leave it alone until you find the right one. So maybe his motivation wasn’t totally money but ego driven either way its still not right. I’m sure there were issues in the relationship from the git go but change is only going to happen from your mate when they want to change. You trying to change them is a mess waiting to happen.
What I find interesting is that people want to slam them for possibly getting married for the money. It’s our own fault that they can even get paid for getting married. Why do we make them relevant and more important than people suffering and all the crap that we have to put up with It’s because we don’t want to face our problems and enjoy watching a show about famous (I don’t know if they Kim and Kris actually deserve that title) people. We can go on and on about how they shouldn’t treat marriage like a side-show, how they should take it seriously. Well, until we stop giving them the attention, they will continue to do crap like this.
You’re right! But this is what main stream news outlets promote. However we wanted to post this article specifically to point out marrying for money or any other reason than love is not the thing to do. We want to encourage couples to have the tough conversations and not get caught up in the wedding. Look pass today and plan for the future. So that you don’t have 72 day marriages and have to defend this that and the other. But you are right this is what interest people because this is what we are fed in the media.
This is 100% Kris Humphries own fault. The MAN selects the WOMAN and asks for her hand in marriage. You mean to tell me – that out of ALL OF THE WOMEN IN AMERICA, Kim Kardashian is the best selection he could make?
I don’t think so. So (in my Eddie Murphy voice), Kris, you brought this on yo’self.
Yep we gotta be careful with the choices we make especially life decisions like this.
I agree we must be careful with our selections, but she ain’t no angel and this is not her first dance at the rodeo. She once said in an episdoed that she had been planning this wedding since she was 10 years old and he replied “you can just slide any guy into it.” What he didn’t know along with this being her 2nd marriage is that she is still in love with Reggie Bush! Kris was yet another rebound off of Reggie.
The messed up thing, which is probably why he is saying he was blind sided is that after spending the weekend with his wife he finds out on tv that she filed for divorce. That’s cruddy! Be a woman and tell him you want out. Don’t leave it to TMZ and twitter. SMH! For real! But then again what should I have expected.
The warning signs were there.
Considering what they spent on the wedding, I’d say they had a long way to go before making all of that back plus profit. To me it seems more like they both got caught up in the fantasy of it all, she spent so much time planning for the wedding, for finally being married, but didn’t put that same effort into preparing for the marriage itself.
I’m not saying they didn’t make a profit, but no one has showed evidence that they made a profit over what they spent. Instead it just looks like they were both naive.
The word is that sponsors covered the price of the wedding and that when it was all said and done they’ve made in the neighborhood of 17mill together. Not to mention Kim will be making more money when the ratings for her show skyrocket around the episodes that are being taped now ensuring her more TV time and more money.
Sponsorship paid for the extravagant affair that she deemed her wedding. My thing is that you could tell that this was not about the union AT ALL from watching the special that aired. This was about building her FAIRY TALE… and she got that. Kris seemed more interested in his cell phone for 90% of that. Also, the fact that his family wasn’t even included in any of the planning and considerations (they FORGOT to get a car for HIS PARENTS to ride in after the CEREMONY???) so how do you expect them to be a part of your marital life??? And trust this – if you alienate any side of the family during your nuptial planning, that will surely affect your future dealings with them. Family support from both sides is necessary for ANY marriage to survive – and with Kim’s overbearing family and it being all about them… I can’t see it.
good point!
It’s always sad to see a marriage being made into a joke. I wrote a blog post myself stating how our society has become wedding obsessed instead of marriage obsessed. I wish people focused more on the life after the wedding day than the actual day itself. https://wp.me/p1RIvs-8N This is just a sad event that keeps happening as to why people do not take marriage serious anymore.
My mother (married 46 yrs) always said a healthy marriage is about shared values, shared interests, mutual trust and mutual respect. Love and definitely not money will hold a a marriage alone. NONE of this existed. This was train wreck waiting to happen. She didn’t include his parents, she didn’t like his dogs. Women run her family obviously men run his. She didn’t repsect his opinion during the planning. She didn’t even take his last name. He didn’t know she had been married. He’s a down to earth country boy she’s a high maintenance city girl. I could go on and on but I think she knew he wan’t the one and so did he but they went ahead and “hoped” for the best. yet they had nothing in common! Opposites attract but its rare they last the test of time.