Originally appeared on E! Online.
Kim Kardashian isn’t dismissing her career plans anytime soon.
Nearly two weeks after the “All’s Fair” actress shared that she didn’t pass the California bar exam, she revealed that she had been studying again even before the results came out.
“Discipline is a form of self-respect,” Kardashian told journalist Martha Debayle in a joint interview with costar Niecy Nash published Nov. 19. “When I finished the bar, I came home and started studying and writing essays. I just loved the routine of studying. I would continue that process just to be prepared for the future if I needed to take it again.”
She even recalled mom Kris Jenner urging her to put the books down, explaining, “Everyone would be like, ‘Stop. You took it already. Stop studying. Stop writing essays. Stop doing this.'”
For the 45-year-old — who shares kids North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5, with ex Kanye West — studying had become a staple in her day-to-day.
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“That’s something I can control,” she reflected. “Maybe it’s a control freak. But I love that space and I love living in that space no matter what.”
And when Kardashian learned that she didn’t pass the exam — which is the final step to becoming a licensed lawyer in California — she took the news as divine timing.
“I’m not someone who will ever give up,” she emphasized. “I always look at things in a timing perspective. That just wasn’t my time. and I’m OK with that. I instantly knew that it’s a bigger lesson and that I just have to do better and try harder and get back at it.”
But that doesn’t mean “The Kardashians” star didn’t have some negative feelings about her results.
“I don’t really get disappointed, even though I’m bummed that it wasn’t the outcome that I wanted because I did put in the time,” she explained. “It is frustrating when you try so hard at something and it’s not the result you want.”
However, she emphasized that although it wasn’t her time to pass, “it will be soon.”
Kardashian knows that it’s all fair in becoming a lawyer, noting that she won’t be giving up anytime soon.
“Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar,” she wrote in a post on her Instagram stories Nov. 8. “No shortcuts, no giving up — just more studying and even more determination. Falling short isn’t failure — it’s fuel. I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivates me even more.”
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