How Kim Kardashian’s Calmness Stems From 2016 Robbery

For years, Kim Kardashian has claimed her ultimate “superpower” is her calmness. Now, she and Khloé Kardashian have unpacked why that might be.

If you’ve been watching this season of The Kardashians, you’ll know Kim recently decided to get therapy to help her develop stricter boundaries at home with her kids: North, Saint, Chicago, and Psalm.

Historically, Kim has been reluctant to seek therapy, but over the past few episodes, we’ve seen that she’s already finding it helpful. And this week, she talked to Khloé about a recent development.

“So I met with a therapist again,” Kim told her sister. “She was like, You think calm is your superpower. I think you are so desensitized from trauma that you literally are frozen in fight or flight. Then she was like, One time in life, something happened, and you remained calm, and that worked for you, so you will always choose calm.”

Before Kim could say any more, Khloé was quick to suggest that her Paris robbery may have been the traumatic event that prompted her shift in attitude.

For context, in October 2016, Kim was robbed at gunpoint by a group of masked men who broke into her hotel room in Paris while she was alone. The intruders stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry, and Kim has since described the ordeal as “seven or eight minutes of torture.”

Discussing the robbery now, Khloé suggested the harrowing ordeal hugely changed Kim’s approach to managing trauma and stress.

Kim considered this and, in her confessional, spoke more about the lasting repercussions of the traumatic experience.