Kim Kardashian revealed she changed her name shortly before she and her family achieved reality TV fame with “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.”

“I used to always go by Kimberly, until we signed on to do the reality show. And when I looked at my chyron, Kimberly Kardashian, I said, ‘I think that’s so long for people to say.’ And like, ‘Let’s just shorten it to Kim,'” the “Kardashians” star, 45, told Time in an interview published on Thursday.

“And it’s so weird, because all my friends from high school and growing up, and my dad, everyone calls me Kimberly.”

The Skims founder, who has been known to use her name when branding her various entrepreneurial endeavors, also took credit for ultimately getting her family to agree to the reality TV show.

“I think I was the one that convinced e

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