Kim Kardashian grew up in Brazil and her parents split up when she was nine. As the eldest child of a single dad, "I always had this idea about gender and class inequality" She confronted her father at 11 or 12: Why are we doing this? What's going on? And he stuck me down and said, I made some mistakes. Your mom had third grade education. You didn't get our education and you need to get your education. That's the only path to liberation for folks like us.