Sean Smith author of Kim

So much has been written about Kim Kardashian. The slight mention of her name either creates great conversation or sneers. Who and what is she? Is she the product of marketing? Is there truly a life being lived or is this a game played out by the media and social networking? From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with the author of Kim. Sean Smith. For today’s generation, fame has been defined by one person more than anyone else. People have grown up knowing incredible details about her childhood, her family, her turbulent love life and the multi-millionaire lifestyle. But bestselling author Sean Smith goes into incredible detail not just about Kim Kardashian West, but how she’s changed and shaped our culture and where her fame is taking her. In KIM KARDASHIAN (William Morrow/Dey Street Books; October 20, 2015; $26.99) Kim Kardashian West is a thoroughly modern woman. She enjoyed a privileged upbringing in a Beverley Hills mansion and, ironically, her childhood ambition was to appear in the long-running reality series The Real World. Instead she became the star of Keeping Up With the Kardashians while her own life story read like an X-rated version of Dynasty…murder, elopement, domestic violence, sex tape, quickie divorce, churchgoing and unbelievably glamorous designer dresses. Now married to one of the biggest stars on the planet, Kanye West, she has begun her own dynasty with the birth of daughter, North, and another baby on the way. “If everybody could do what Kim Kardashian does then we would all be multi-millionaires,” Smith says. “I was eager to find out how a woman described to me as ‘low maintenance and undemanding’ could become a worldwide superstar. The general public can’t take their eyes off her for a moment.” In a world that follows her every move, Sean Smith uncovers what it took to get her to the top and how she intends to stay there. He researched her family background extensively and analyzes what he may have thought of her fame. He analyzes her fashion sense, where even her missteps are brave. And he takes readers into the world of pornography, explaining the business of her sex tape and Joe Francis. From her fabulous fashion-sense and her world-famous physique, to her devotion to her family and her reaction to her stepparent’s transition from Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner, this is the truth behind the undisputed Queen of Celebrity—the real story of Kim Kardashian. “Critics and Kim-haters enjoy putting her down because they don’t understand that the world is changing,” Smith says. “Social media puts you in the room with someone. Kim is a master of this, even though it is an astutely cultivated image…making the extraordinary appear ordinary.” KIM KARDASHIAN is anything but ordinary. ABOUT SEAN SMITH Sean Smith is the UK’s leading celebrity biographer and the author of five Sunday Times bestsellers, with his titles being translated throughout the world. Described by the Independent as a “fearless chronicler”, he specializes in meticulous research, going on the road to find the real person behind the star image. He lives in the UK.