An incredible throwback clip showing Kim Kardashian’s first ever talk show appearance has been recirculating on social media.
The businesswoman and influencer, 44, made her first ever late-night television appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in August 2008.
During the interview, she discussed selling her clothes on eBay for money and her then-recent foray into reality television.
The interview came just a few months after her family show Keeping Up With The Kardashians first aired in 2007, catapulting her and her sisters into stardom.
Wearing a stylish red dress she put on a confident display in the clip as she walked onto the Letterman show as the host asked her: ‘What do you do for a living? You have a store?’
Kim Kardashian replied: ‘I have a clothing store yes and I was a wardrobe stylist and I have a closet organizing business where I would go into closets and completely reorganise it.
‘We would take everything out we didn’t want and sell it on eBay. I love eBay and I do it all the time. And that’s what I did.’
17 years on from that clip Kim has gone on to forge an incredibly successful career and now has a net worth of $1.7 billion as of May 2025.
And there were more throwbacks last week as Kim took a trip down memory lane to share a never-before-seen photo with her late father Robert Kardashian on Sunday.
The reality TV star took to Instagram with the nostalgic image, which featured her as a little girl standing next to the attorney – who died at the age of 59 from esophageal cancer – and her mom Kris Jenner, 69.
The image saw Kris with her arms around Robert, both of them smiling at the camera, along with their daughter.
‘Dad, Mom and Me,’ the SKIMS founder captioned the post.
Kris was married to Robert from 1978 until their divorce in 1991. Aside from Kim, they also welcomed daughters Kourtney, 46, and Khloe, 41, as well as son Rob, 38.
Kim Kardashian who recently tried to purchase a family heirloom connected to her father but was rejected – was 22 years old when her father passed away from in September 2003.
In 1998, seven years after his divorce from Kris was finalized, Robert married Jan Ashley; however, the marriage ended in annulment 30 days later.
After dating for three years, the Los Angeles native married his third wife, Ellen Pierson (née Markowitz), six weeks prior to his death.
Meanwhile Kris married Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce), 75, in 1991, shortly after her divorce from Robert was finalized. They had two daughters together, Kendall, 29, and Kylie Jenner, 28.
Kim is currently studying to become a lawyer, like her father.
In May, she completed her law school program after a six year journey. She still needs to pass the Bar Exam to practice law in the state.
In 2020, Kim said she hoped that her father would be ‘so proud’ to see her pursuing a career in law and says whenever she gets ‘frustrated’ with studying, she thinks of him.
‘He must’ve been going through some of the same things that I have gone through. It would have been exciting to talk to him about that, and I know that he would be so, so proud,’ she said.
Kim has been working on prison reform in recent years, and hopes setting up her own law firm will help get former inmates into work.
In March, Kim’s attempt to purchase a family heirloom connected to her late father was rejected by O.J. Simpson’s estate.
The estate’s executor, Malcom LaVergne, revealed that they, sadly, had to turn down her $15,000 offer on the Bible her dad gifted Simpson, who died on April 10, 2024, because it was ‘too late to purchase it outside the auction.’