Kim Kardashian swept into Harvard Business School on Friday as a visitor lecturer to talk on the success of her multibillion-dollar SKIMS shapewear business — however the web wasn’t thrilled about it.
A digital camera crew adopted her as the fact star and SKIMS co-founder Jens Grede arrived to speak to Boston college students enrolled within the Moving Beyond Direct to Consumer course, her consultant confirmed to the New York Post.
Although NBC10 Boston reported that some attendees of the seminar gave Kardashian an “A” for her practically two-hour speech about SKIMS, which was valued at $US3.2 billion ($4.6 billion) only a yr in the past, Twitter trolls slammed the lawyer in coaching — and Harvard itself — for inviting the “talentless” businesswoman within the first place.
“This is hilarious. @KimKardashian can’t spell @Harvard,” one critic wrote of the celeb and her look, which lasted for about an hour and 45 minutes.
“Kim Kardashian was born into wealth,” one other declared. “Attempted to use a sex tape to launch an acting or singing career; neither launched. Kim K was wealthy enough to make a scripted reality TV show work because she & her family are shameless. Harvard is just as tacky as the Kardashians now.”
“The words ‘Kardashian’ and ‘Harvard’ should never appear in the same sentence…..ever,” one other acknowledged, whereas one commenter added, “I’d hate to pay that Harvard tuition $$$$ to only get her as a speaker. Do Better, Harvard.”
“Lim k on speaking at harvard: ‘oh my god, you guys, like i am actually going to speak at harvard, like oh my god, this is such a biggg dealll. (in that whiny voice),’” one other made enjoyable of the fact star’s social media persona.
Many customers questioned what sort of recommendation Kardashian gave, as she doesn’t have a university diploma herself.
“Schooled them on what? Using the word Literally after every sentence,” one joked.
“And gives advice on what? How to ride the coattails of famous parents?” one other chimed in on the kin of Robert Kardashian and ever-present “momager” Kris Jenner.
“How to sell your soul 101,” one other prompt.
“Get your ass up and work that 9-5,” added one other, referencing her notorious, much-ridiculed recommendation to working ladies final yr.
A scholar named Liz, nonetheless, informed NBC10 Boston that she discovered lots from Kardashian.
“I think a lot of people don’t respect her as someone who is co-running a multibillion-dollar company,” she informed the outlet.
“Just to learn from someone who has built such a successful business was really exciting and I think having the privacy of no cameras in the room, being able to have that candid conversation was special too,” Liz added.
The Post has contacted reps for Harvard and the professors for remark.
While Kardashian didn’t go to Harvard Law School — regardless of her actively learning to turn out to be a lawyer — she did recreate Reese Witherspoon’s Legally Blonde Harvard admissions video for Halloween in 2019.
She additionally accompanied her then-fiance Kanye West when he spoke at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2013.
This article initially appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
Originally printed as ‘This is hilarious’: Kim Kardashian roasted over two-hour Harvard speech
