Kim Kardashian Read Every Page of Her Authorized Biography. Here’s What She Pushed Back On.

'Citizen Kim' author Jonathan Van Meter on his five surreal years inside the Kardashians’ world: the sex tape, sibling rivalries, falling for your subject, Paris Hilton’s 17 cancellations and why Kanye isn't in the book. 'Citizen Kim' author Jonathan Van Meter on his five surreal years inside the Kardashians’ world. Jonathan Van Meter, the legendary magazine writer and editor, has spent much of his career getting unusually close to famous women. His intimate profiles on cultural powerhouses like Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston, Jodie Foster, Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga, to name a few, have appeared in the pages of Esquire, Vanity Fair, New York and Vogue, among scores of other glossies.

I have known Jonathan for more than 30 years, since we were both came of age in New York magazine publishing during its last golden age, the early 1990s. He is a gifted reporter, a superb raconteur and, as anyone who knows him will attest, a man with very strong feelings about practically everything. So when he told me during the pandemic that he intended to devote the next several years to writing a biography of Kim Kardashian, I was intrigued — and skeptical. Kardashian might be the most extensively documented woman of her generation. Between reality television, social media and a bottomless tabloid appetite, what could possibly remain