Khloe Kardashian Had Doubts About Having Her Own Show With Lamar Odom
Khloe & Lamar premiered April 10, 2011, on E!, seemingly a natural spin-off of the mothership Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which had already spawned Khloe & Kourtney Take Miami and Kourtney & Kim Take New York.
But that was not Khloe’s idea, according to the now 41-year-old.
“Khloe & Lamar was led very much by Lamar,” she said in the doc. “I was spread really thin. I also didn’t really want it to jeopardize the family brand, which was Keeping Up at the time. I thought there were so many Kardashian shows, and I reminded him about his main career—uh, the Lakers—and just said, ‘Are you sure you want to do it?'”
Noting that shooting KUWTK allowed her to “bounce around to different homes” and not be “under a microscope,” Khloe admitted she was “a little concerned” about a show that was going to be in in their home all the time. “But I also wanted to make him happy,” she said, “and he was so excited about it.”
Destiny said of her dad, “He did love Khloe, but he’d wanted to be on reality TV for a long time.”
Or as Lamar put it in the doc, “Well, part of the deal was that, ‘If I’m gonna marry you, f–k it, I want in too.'”