Kim Kardashian Reveals Status of Law Career After Failing Bar Exam

Kim Kardashian Pokes Fun at Herself Months After Failing the Bar Exam

Yes, Kim Kardashian is keeping up with her lawyer aspirations.

The Kardashians star provided an update on whether she still intends on pursuing a career in law after failing the bar exam.

"I'm not giving up on trying to become a lawyer," Kardashian told Good Morning America on the red carpet at the All’s Fair season two premiere on Nov. 2. "I think that that was like a big misconception, but I do want to wait until the timing is right so that I know that I can do it without a ton of distractions around me."

"I don't know when that will be," she continued, "because there's always distractions. But it means a lot to me and I want to do it—and I'm gonna do it!"

The 46-year-old—who joked about failing the bar exam in an energy drink ad this past summer—had previously explained why she was so open about not getting the results she wanted on the test after completing a six-year law program.

"You get the results on a Friday, and I knew Sunday morning they were going to be live on the internet," she told the New York Times last December. "I was like, 'OK, let's do this, I know what I've got to do. This really sucks because I put so much time into it, but I know what I can do better.'"

The SKIMS founder continued, "I'm pretty good at taking a failure and turning it into something and I just don't have the time to dwell. You can feel sorry for yourself for a second, but I need to take that time and put it into studying more."

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That said, she did have to take a short moment to privately process her results before making them public.

"I didn't feel good about it," Kardashian explained. "I was really uncomfortable and not confident for a while."

She's also always been clear about her intentions of following through with her lawyer aspirations. (Her late dad Robert Kardashian Sr. was an attorney.)

"Falling short isn't failure—it's fuel," she wrote on her Instagram Stories in Nov. 2025, after announcing her bar exam results. "I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivates me even more."

Kardashian's interest in becoming a lawyer is just one of the many career paths she's taken. Keep reading for more about her evolution over the years...

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