Do you remember the hot minute when Kim Kardashian married Kris Humphries? Besides sharing the same name as his mother-in-law, Humphries didn’t stand a chance. The Kardashian war machine chewed him up and spat him out– and Kim divorced him, dumping him on the sidewalk less than three months after their highly anticipated wedding day.

This was no accident. Kim milked her failed marriage for everything she could. And it worked!

Like a car crash that you can’t turn away from, Kim Kardashian used her failure in love to catapult her name to the heights of Hollywood success. Now everyone knows who Kim Kardashian is. She used her three-month marriage to Kris Humphries to get there.

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