
Kourtney Kardashian
Media personality & businesswoman
Kourtney Kardashian is an American media personality and businesswoman who became famous as part of her family's reality-television franchise and has since built ventures in the lifestyle and wellness space. As the eldest of the Kardashian siblings, she has been a central figure in the family's long-running public presence.
Early life
Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest child of attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner. She grew up in the Los Angeles area in a prominent family and pursued higher education, studying theater arts and Spanish at university. She graduated before joining her family's entry into reality television, and she has frequently been described as the most private and home-focused of her siblings.
Career
Kardashian rose to fame in 2007 with the debut of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the reality series chronicling her family's personal and business lives. The show became a major cultural success and ran for many seasons, and Kourtney featured prominently throughout. She also appeared in numerous spin-off programs that followed family members to different cities and ventures, including series centered on her and her sisters' businesses and travels.
Alongside television, she participated in the family's early retail and fashion ventures, including a boutique clothing business operated with her sisters that was chronicled on their reality programs, as well as various branded product lines and endorsements. As the eldest sibling, she was often shown balancing the demands of the family's growing media enterprise with raising young children. Over time she increasingly emphasized health, wellness and lifestyle themes in her public image, distinguishing her brand from those of her siblings and positioning herself around organic living and self-care.
Recent work
In 2019 Kardashian launched Poosh, a lifestyle website focused on wellness, food, beauty and home content. She later expanded into consumer products with Lemme, a brand of wellness supplements and gummies. She continued to appear in the family's subsequent streaming reality series after the original program concluded. Her personal life, including her marriage to musician Travis Barker, has drawn extensive media coverage. She has spoken publicly about wellness, motherhood, parenting and family life in interviews and through her own digital platforms and brand channels. With a large social-media following and ongoing commercial ventures, Kardashian remains a prominent figure in the influencer and lifestyle-brand landscape that her family helped popularize, and she continues to balance public visibility with a comparatively private personal life.