Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries How do you begin to dissect fame like that of Kim Kardashian? Where do you make the first cut in such omnipresence? Because it’s not just about her, the flesh and bones woman, any more. We exist within her vast show, literally and figuratively. Even if you don’t actively choose to follow her movements, she’s there. Inescapable. We should start with the unavoidable: the sex tape . In the mid-00s Kardashian wasn’t famous like her friends Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton , for whom she was a stylist. Richie and Hilton were catapulted into the public eye with their feckless and fantastic reality show The Simple Life , blasting a tsunami of velour Juicy Couture and Von Dutch trucker caps into society. They giggled and pouted on every red carpet and magazine cover going. But this kind of fame eluded Kardashian, despite her notorious parents and ...