REALITY TV star Kim Kardashian takes wet-look fashion to a whole new level.
The 45-year-old went for a night-time dip in a haute-couture dress by the late Alexander McQueen.
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Kim Kardashian went for a night-time dip in a haute-couture dress by the late Alexander McQueenCredit: Tomás Herold/@tomasheroldKim was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to promote her Hulu drama All’s FairCredit: Tomás Herold/@tomasherold
But the gown, first modelled in 2003, appeared far from waterproof.
Seeing the photo on Instagram, sister Khloe said: “You are such a freak for being in that water at night. Are you well?”
Kim was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to promote her Hulu drama All’s Fair.
Last month, The Sun revealed the reality star had brought out aSkims ‘Panties’ advent calendarwhich included 25 “luxury” pairs.
KIM Kardashian broke down in tears and sobbed in the days leading up to her law exam.
The reality TV star, 45, finally took the California bar after seven years of studying but she was ultimately unsuccessful.
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Kim Kardashian was left in tears in the days leading up to her bar examCredit: Instagram/kimkardashianShe could not stop crying as she spoke on the difficulties of her law journeyCredit: Instagram/kimkardashianThe vlog showcased her final two weeks studying for the examCredit: Instagram/kimkardashian
It was revealed earlier this month that she hadn’t passed but Kim has remained determined to try again in the hopes of qualifying as a practising lawyer.
Now, the All’s Fair actress has shared an intimate look at her two weeks leading up to the exam in which she shunned all other work commitments to focus on her studies.
The nine-minute social media vlog features an emotional scene in which a bare-faced Kim can be seen sobbing in bed after a long day of studying for her exam.
Heavily emotional, Kim spoke to the camera as she opened up about her law journey difficulties.
Kim said: “F***, I’m gonna film this because oh my god I am just so tired.
“It is like every time I feel like I am a step ahead, something happens to try and stop me from doing this.
“A part of me just wants to stop.
“I feel like my brain is going to explode and i still have so much more to go.”
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Whilst Kim didn’t expand on what was stopping her from studying, she was clearly suffering with problems relating to her back during the two-week period the video was filmed.
She confirmed her back had “given out” and was causing her pain.
Kim wore a large back brace throughout most of the clips in the video in order to help with the pain.
She also revealed she had undergone an MRI scan which confirmed she was dealing with some issues relating to the discs in her back.
Despite her initial worries, she admitted she was feeling confident the day before the exam and was looking forward to taking on the challenge.
The news that Kim hadn’t passed the bar exam came at the same time as her hotly-anticipated legal drama, in which she plays a lawyer, Allura Grant, premiered across the world.
Kim leads the show alongside a cast of stars including Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts and Nicey Nash.
Confirming the news earlier this month, the billionaire said: “Well… I’m not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV.
“Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up – just more studying and even more determination.”
Kim was working hard to attain her goal of being a lawyerCredit: Instagram/kimkardashianThe Hollywood icon took two weeks off work to fully dedicate herself to practiseCredit: InstagramKim has been on her law journey since 2018Credit: Getty
KIM Kardashian refuses to throw in the book as she returns to studying, after fuming that psychics incorrectly predicted she would pass her exam to qualify as a lawyer.
The billionaire entrepreneur and reality star, 45, posing in a bikini while revising with a textbook, failed her California bar exam after six years of studying.
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Kim Kardashian shared a snap studying in her bikini after revealing she failed the bar examCredit: InstagramThe reality star has slammed ‘full of s**t’ psychics who all told her she’d pass the examCredit: Splash
In a TikTok video, she ranted to her famous family that their clairvoyants were “liars.”
She said: “I’m just letting you guys know that all of the f***ing psychics that we have met with, and that we’re obsessed with, are all f***ing full of s**t.
“They all collectively, maybe four of them, have told me I was going to pass the bar so they’re all full pathological liars. Don’t believe anything they say.”
It comes after her Disney+ drama All’s Fair, about a group of female lawyers, was critically panned and received a four percent rating on review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
“The show had a disappointing opening in the first 24 hours.
“It wasn’t getting as much attention leading up because the media review embargoes weren’t allowed to go up until after the show had already dropped,” the source explained.
“So all the 0% reviews came out at once, after the episode was already out, and helped draw droves of attention to it.
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“The reaction to all the bad reviews was the best thing that could’ve happened to the show. It basically, right away, doubled overall episode engagement.
“Including viewership but also the amount of online mentions and social media activity.”
The insider added that producers are taking the critique well, as they know the show is meant to be “campy and fun” and is “not meant to be serious.”
“No one likes their work being dunked on, but the show welcomes the chatter because it’s driving interest and the viewership is benefiting exponentially,” they added.
Kim stars on the legal drama as a divorce attorney at an all-female law firm.
In addition to The Kardashians star, the series also includes Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson, and Glenn Close.
Kim insisted she’s not giving up on her dream of becoming a lawyerCredit: InstagramKim plays a divorce attorney in drama All’s FairCredit: Hulu
The reality-TV star and billionaire entrepreneur revealed Saturday that she missed the mark on California’s bar exam but promised to keep studying until she passes.
“Well… I’m not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV,” Kardashian wrote on Instagram. “Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up — just more studying and even more determination.”
The 45-year-old Kardashian said she came “so close” this time and called the result “fuel” for her next try. “I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivated me even more. Let’s go!”
Kardashian had sounded hopeful about her prospects of passing the mandatory legal exam during an October appearance on Britain’s “The Graham Norton Show.” While promoting Ryan Murphy’s series “All’s Fair,” in which she stars as a divorce attorney, she said she was confident she would soon be a “qualified lawyer.”
Kardashian is attempting to follow in the footsteps of her father, Robert Kardashian. The late attorney, who shares Kim, Khloé, Kourtney and Rob Jr. with Kris Jenner, famously was part of the “Dream Team” that represented O.J. Simpson during his murder trial in 1995. Simpson was accused of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and friend Ron Goldman on June 12, 1994. He was acquitted.
In an April 2019 Vogue interview, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star and mother of four publicized her summer 2018 decision to study the law after championing the case of former prisoner Alice Marie Johnson, who had been imprisoned for life plus 25 years for a nonviolent drug offense. President Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence in 2018 at the urging of Kardashian and others and pardoned the great-grandmother two years later.
Over the years, Kardashian has been working with attorneys Van Jones and Jessica Jackson, who sponsored her studies. Instead of attending law school, Kardashian planned to pursue a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco and then take the bar in 2022.
After COVID pandemic-induced delays, Kardashian passed the “baby bar” exam in December 2021 after several attempts. In May, she passed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, required before a person attempts to pass a bar exam in the United States.
Days before sharing her bar exam results, Kardashian said she used artificial intelligence to bolster her law studies. “Do you consider ChatGPT to be a friend?,” “All’s Fair” co-star Teyana Taylor asked the reality star during their Vanity Fair lie detector appearance.
“I use it for legal advice. So when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in there,” Kardashian replied.
“So you’re cheating?” Taylor responded.
“They’re always wrong. It has made me fail tests.”
While Kardashian’s professional law career has yet to take off in real life, she is currently portraying a power player of an attorney on the small screen. In Murphy’s “All’s Fair,” Kardashian stars as the co-founder of an all-female firm with Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash and Taylor as her cohorts.
Kim Kardashian has hit back at critics of her new legal drama All’s Fair, sharing a series of social media posts that both acknowledged and mocked the show’s harshest reviews
16:32, 08 Nov 2025Updated 16:33, 08 Nov 2025
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Kim Kardashian has fired back at critics slamming her new Hulu legal drama All’s Fair. The 45-year-old reality star and businesswoman shared a string of social media posts that both acknowledged and ridiculed the programme’s most brutal reviews, uploading them to Instagram after All’s Fair premiered earlier this week.
The series, crafted by Ryan Murphy, also features Glenn Close, Niecy Nash-Betts, Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts and Teyana Taylor. It centres on a group of women who abandon a male-dominated law firm to establish their own practice.
Kim kicked off her post with a snap of herself donning a purple fur-trimmed crop top before sharing a picture of her alongside Ryan. She then posted a screenshot of a tweet displaying the programme’s Rotten Tomatoes rating at 0%, paired with a supporter’s reaction stating: “Immediately pressed play.”
Kim subsequently shared an image of herself chuckling with Ryan and her fellow cast members, before uploading another tweet declaring: “Some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen in my life alongside the most predictable storylines and the most ridiculous styling. I’m obsessed, I need 14 seasons. #AllsFair.”
Kim also featured screenshots of critiques from The Hollywood Reporter and the BBC. There was also a photograph of comedian Amy Schumer recreating their viral 2015 Time 100 Gala moment at a screening of the programme.
One tweet she shared read: “All’s Fair on Hulu dares to ask the question ‘Does a show need to be good?’ And the answer is no, it doesn’t.
“We have legendary actresses here giving the worst performances of their careers, it takes a special kind of talent to pull that kind of inability out of them. Amazeballs.”
The post concluded with Kim spotlighting more favourable reviews and captioning the snaps: “Have you tuned in to the most critically acclaimed show of the year! ? ! ? ! ? All’s Fair streaming now on @hulu and @disneyplus.”
Her co-star Glenn Close also got involved, sharing a sketch of the cast alongside a pot labelled “Critic-Bunny Stew” – a cheeky reference to her notorious role in Fatal Attraction, where her character boiled a pet rabbit alive in revenge for being rejected after a one-night stand.
Director and executive producer Anthony Hemingway has stood by the programme in a chat with The Hollywood Reporter.
He remarked: “You’re not going to please everybody. You may have certain criticisms, while there are a million others who love it. I think the show holds a mirror up to each person who watches it. It’s just about: Can you connect to it or relate to it, and see yourself?”.
Chatting to People magazine ahead of the show’s launch, Sarah Paulson revealed: “I had the best time, I really did.” Glenn added: “Sarah and Kim sometimes could not look at each other without laughing.”
Fresh episodes of All’s Fair drop every Tuesday on Hulu until 23 December.
Sarah Paulson appears to be having a blast in Ryan Murphy’s new Hulu “legal” drama “All’s Fair,” and that’s about the only good thing about the show.
The New York Times recently ran a piece extolling it’s reimagining of the power suit (down to at least one visible thong) and I suppose that’s one way of avoiding the obvious. Still, I’m going to stick with Paulson’s obvious glee in playing a villain. Her Carrington Lane was left behind to fester in the comic-book sexism of a male-dominated divorce law firm when two of her colleagues stalked away to form an all-female team and Carrington is not one to surrender a grudge.
It’s impossible not to like Paulson and she is clearly enjoying the opportunity to glare and hiss and indulge in the kind of gross but creative profanity Melissa McCarthy likes to unleash when her characters hit the brink.
As for the rest … well, let’s just say with “All’s Fair,” American culture is getting exactly what it deserves: A series that wallows in the shiny, knockoff-ready trappings of new money (immaculate and soulless homes, private jets, diamonds the size of a Rubik’s Cube), defines “sisterhood” as the belief that any personal crisis can be alleviated by vaginal rejuvenation combined with a girls’ trip to a jewelry auction and gauges power by the ability to plot and take revenge. Preferably in the form of huge amounts of money.
“All’s Fair” may or may not be, as some have said, the worst show of the year (or possibly of all time), but with its celebration of the 1%, personal feuds and financial vengeance, it is certainly the first to truly embody the culture of the Trump presidency.
Down to the reality star at its center. “All’s Fair” gives top billing not to any of the fine and seasoned actors that star — Paulson, Niecy Nash, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close — but to Kim Kardashian, who plays Allura Grant, head of the law firm Grant, Ronson and Greene.
Niecy Nash, from left, Glenn Close and Kim Kardashian are among the stars of Ryan Murphy’s new Hulu drama “All’s Fair.”
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That Kardashian (and Kris Jenner, who serves as a producer) were able to summon such forces of the galaxy to showcase her, shall we say, limited thespian abilities could be justifiably viewed as yet another “you go girl” testament to her seemingly limitless business acumen.
On the other hand, “All’s Fair” makes the dismal final season of “And Just Like That” look like Chekhov.
Murphy, and the forces at Disney, which owns Hulu, the home of “The Kardashians,” understand Kardashian’s cult-like following and are operating under the assumption that viewers will be so entranced by her and the fashions (which include an alarming amount of hats, capes and gloves) that they won’t notice that the main player is relying on her eyelash extensions to do her acting for her.
To be fair to Kardashian, few nonprofessional actors would shine beside scene partners like Close, Watts and Nash, and the writing of the series, which flirts with camp but never fully commits, does no one any favors.
Not since “Charlie’s Angels” has there been a “feminist fantasy” with such a male gaze. (Apologies to “Charlie’s Angels,” which was in many ways a groundbreaking show.)
After suffering on the sidelines of a mostly male law firm, Allura and Liberty Ronson (Watts) decide to branch out on their own. They do so with the blessing of Dina Standish (Close), that firm’s only female partner, and take with them ace investigator Emerald Greene (Nash). When we meet them again, 10 years later, Allura also has an assistant/mentee in Milan (Teyana Taylor), who later provides a predictable plot twist.
The names alone suggest a level of parody, and, in the first episode, a send-up quality flits in and out of the proceedings, but the show chooses cynicism over satire every time.
Instead of sexist jokes, the partners of Grant, Ronson and Greene spend much of their time discussing how awful men are, with the possible exception of Liberty’s beau, Reggie (“The Handmaid’s Tale’s” O-T Fagbenle), and Standish’s ailing husband, Doug (Ed O’Neill).
That is, after all, the raison d’etre of the firm: Grant, Ronson and Greene are intent on protecting rich women from the perils of the prenup and generally making the bastards pay, sometimes through their “superior” knowledge of the law (in one storyline, this involves explaining that gifts are the sole property of the recipient, which even I knew), but more often blackmail (if you have chosen to live your life without ever seeing a butt plug the size of a traffic cone, keep your eyes shut when Emerald starts her slideshow).
A brief, and seemingly contractually required, mention of the firm raising money to help the underprivileged is laughable — “All’s Fair” is 100% après-moi television, in which extreme wealth is presented as too normal to even be aspirational, and any work not done by Emerald consists of sashaying in super slick shades from one successful throwdown to the next. With brief interludes in sumptuous cars and, as previously mentioned, overbidding on hideous brooches at a high-end jewelry auction (held by a firm client, which honestly seems potentially unethical, but whatevs).
If the dialogue were sharp, funny or even self-aware, Murphy and his team might get away with it, but it’s not — “It’s a shame your mother didn’t swallow,” Dina tells Carrington in what passes as proof that women can be as tough as men. Or that older women can talk trash. Or that Close will do her best to give a decent reading of any line. Or something.
There are brief nods to the women’s personal lives — as a divorce lawyer, Liberty is reluctant to marry Reggie, Dina is struggling with Doug’s decline, Emerald is a super-single mom — but it all feels very box-ticky. Including Allura’s disintegrating marriage, which becomes a major plot point as the gals gather round to make that bastard pay as well, and her realization that if she wants to become a mother, she’s running out of time.
Reading the zeitgeist, the creators of “All’s Fair” were clearly not looking for raves or awards, just viewers.
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In many ways, “All’s Fair” is an American version of the excellent British series “The Split,” which follows a matriarchal family of female divorce lawyers. Early on, one of the daughters (played by Nicola Walker) leaves the family firm and, in her own way, attempts to right the wrongs often done to women facing divorce from rich and powerful men while dealing with her own marital breakdown and a family with actual children.
But “American version” doesn’t really cut it. This is Trump’s-America version, in which ethics, morals and virtually all human feeling are secondary to winning, and winning is defined by who ends up making their opponent pay.
Between Kardashian’s conspicuous nonacting and dialogue that often seems lifted from the all-caps regions of X, “All’s Fair” has, not surprisingly, received a critical drubbing. Which seems almost intentional.
Critics, after all, have long been routinely, and often viciously, disparaged (after the reviews were in, Close felt moved to post a sketch of the cast gathered around a “Fatal Attraction”-like “critic bunny stew”). More important, reviews, bad or good, do not (nor should they) predict audience reaction (see early theater reviews of “Wicked”). As Trump has proved again and again, bad press is still press and the worse it is, the more easily it can be cast as proof that the cultural elites (i.e. critics) are out to get … somebody.
So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that, despite a 5% score on Rotten Tomatoes, “All’s Fair” was Hulu’s most successful scripted series premiere in three years.
Reading the zeitgeist, the creators of “All’s Fair” were clearly not looking for raves or awards, just viewers. In this American moment, bad is good and shrewd operators know that if you throw in enough high-profile ingredients — Kardashian, Murphy, a bevy of fine actors — you needn’t take the trouble to ensure the mix will rise to the occasion.
As the president builds a ballroom while food banks are overrun, why wouldn’t TV audiences want to feast on fallen cake?
