Kim KardashianandKanye Westtake security seriously — so seriously that they have a station in their garage that’s manned 24/7.
InVogue‘s May cover story, writer Jonathan Van Meter visits the Kardashian-West estate in Hidden Hills, California, and reports on some surprising details about the couple’s$60 million home.
“I had to pass through layers of Pentagon-level security and hesitated at their forbidding front door, which looks like it might be lowered over a moat, before deciding to walk around the side and enter through the garage like a normal person,” Van Meter writes of the entrance to their massive abode.
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In the garage, he says, there is a “security pod, manned 24 hours a day” along with a wall of shelves to hold boxes of Adidas Yeezy sneakers and another wall with black suitcases.
“Security and privacy issues have changed not only for her but for the whole family,” a source close to the family told PEOPLE at the time. “They have security guards most of the time when they go out.”
Inside her house, Kardashian, 38, has a “staff kitchen” and a “show kitchen” (top), according to Van Meter. The staff kitchen, he says, is where she spends the most time with her husband and kids — daughtersNorth, 5, andChicago, 1, andson Saint, 3. (The pair areexpecting their fourth childvia surrogate in May.)
The show kitchen is more for entertaining, as it boasts a massive center island and a breakfast nook that can seat twenty.
Van Meter describes Kardashian’s bedroom as “the size of an airplane hangar” while the en suite bathroom (above) “offers a shower big enough for a basketball team.”
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“My husband sleeps crazy, sheets all over the place. I sleep perfectly. It’s my favorite thing to do: get in bed,” the reality star tells Vogue of her and West’s habits.
According to Van Meter, she also has multiple rooms in her closet, including one for just handbags and shoes, as well as dressing rooms, which she often posts on Instagram when she shares her fittings.
“I would say [it’s] like a minimal monastery,” Kardashian says inthe video, which shows off many of the mansion’s massive, sparsely decorated rooms.
Van Meter’s descriptions also confirm thatthe Kardashian-Wests’ home is strikingly bare, a conclusion many have drawn from a handful of pictures inside the home shared on social media — including acontroversial set of images Kanye tweetedin April 2018.
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“In a house that is nearly devoid of stuff, at long last we come upon something that sparks . . . not joy exactly: a pile of big, fat books—on tort law,” Van Meter writes. “Just when you think you’ve kinda sorta maybe figured out who this unusual creature is, think again:Kim KardashianWest isstudying to become a lawyer.”
Kim Kardashian West on the May 2019 cover ofVogue.Vogue
The family has seemingly become less strict about showing off their mansion to the world since West’s tweets.
Kardashian took over hosting duties from her momKris Jennerfortheir annual Christmas partylastyear, inviting famous guests inside the house and documenting it all. The decor, which included a forest of fine-art faux trees, a fairy light tunnel and a backyard tent disguised as a mountainlikely cost upwards of $1.3 million, according to a celebrity event planner.
The couple purchased the house for a reported $20 million in 2014. They moved into it in December 2017 following an extensive renovation, during which they stayed with Jenner. The momagertweetedin April 2018 that the house is now worth $60 million.
source: people.com
