Heel-lover Kim Kardashian once revealed that she needs high heels to feel sexy, and she wears them on photo shoots even if they’re out of shot. “I feel my sexiest when I’m all dressed up at a photo shoot with full hair and make-up,” Kim explained to the UK edition of Cosmopolitan back in 2012.
Kim continued: “I definitely need high heels to feel sexy, but that’s because of my height – I’m short! – and I just look better. When I’m on a shoot, even if you can’t see the heels, I put them on because they make me feel sexy.”
It’s certainly rare to see Kim without heels and she has even co-founded her own shoe retail site in ShoeDazzle.
During the time she was married to Kanye West, Kim regularly wore his shoes as a form of cross-promotion. Above is Kim stepping out in the Cruel Summer sculpture shoes, a footwear collaboration between Kanye and Giuseppe Zanotti.
And while her divorce from Kanye will hopefully mean she’ll be wearing less of Kayne’s hideous Yeezy “designer” shoes, Kim’s love of heels has survived the relationship.
In fact Kim Kardashian’s love of heels is as much as much a part of her persona as her personality.
In an interview given in 2011 Kim explained how her love affair with shoes had begun early: “Me and my sisters have always loved shoes. We would always try on my mom’s shoes and we even went through all of her shoes and picked out which ones that we would get if she didn’t want them. We made this whole list of who was going to get her shoes.”
These days there are almost as many Kim Kardashian shoe quotes as heels in her closet. Way back in June 2009, Kim told Blast Magazine that “you can never have too many shoes… Shoes make the outfit! They are the best accessory.”
“I have love affairs with so many shoes,” Kim told now defunct fashion magazine Eye on Glam in 2013.
If they make her feel so good, then it is little wonder.