Kim K's UNPAID ex-interns call her 'tone deaf' for telling women to 'get your a** up and work'
Kim Kardashian’s former unpaid intern Celene Zavala opened up about her experience working for the billionaire socialite on Wednesday, March 9. Kim was already under fire for her explosive stand on women’s work ethic when the 41-year-old reality star and entrepreneur was blasted by her former interns.
Zavala, who is now working as a programming editor at CNN+, retweeted Kardashian’s advice for women to 'get your f***ing a** up and work,' and wrote “I worked my little college a** off for free for Kimberly. So I better get some addendum in her saying 'except Celene, she was amazing'," referring to the unpaid internship as a personal assistant to the KUWTK star.
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In another tweet, the writer and critic Jessica DeFino, who also worked for the reality star for 5 months during 2015, described how she could barely fill her car with gas to get to work while working on the billionaire’s app. And to top it all off, Jessica was “reprimanded for freelancing on the side” to help make ends meet.
Zavala also reposted the same tweet to her Instagram stories with the captioned it IYKYK [if you know, you know] in conjunction with the ongoing social media slamming of the Kardashian–Jenner clan, who despite their extraordinary fortunes, prefer to hire unpaid interns to run errands that have little to do with their educational qualifications.
The list of roles intended for interns who are college students included bizarre jobs like grocery shopping, small errands, and helping with the pet dog, which is hardly the work experience interns look for while pursuing their degree programs.
Twitteratis were quick to call out Kim’s double standards when she said that “nobody” wants to work anymore and urged women to 'get your f***ing a** up and work' in her family's Variety profile. Within hours Twitter was swamped with 'reality checks' targeting Kim K for her “tone deaf” success mantra. Star journalist, Soledad O'Brien, drove the point home, tweeting, “Also: be born rich. Really helps.”
“I have the best advice for women in business,” Kim Kardashian says. “Get your f--king ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.” https://t.co/HuddEEXmoM pic.twitter.com/KJCIlaVX3S
— Variety (@Variety) March 9, 2022
Jessica DeFino also pitched in suggesting that Kim's message didn't line up with her own actions. “I was an editor on the Kardashian apps in 2015 in LA, worked days night & weekends, could only afford groceries from the 99 Cents Only Store, called out "sick" more than once bc I couldn't put gas in my car to get to the office,” DeFino claimed. Her tweet underlined the privileged hypocrisy of Kim K's advice, one day after Women's Day, that spotlights the unpaid labor of women, among other things.
