Kim Kardashian, Party Girl at Last

Much of the drinks discourse of the last half decade has been about people getting sober. Or at least people reevaluating their Relationship with alcohol. Or at least giving the once-trendy California sober a test run. It’s been several years of Prohibition chic, of wellness-ified alcohol, of high-class low ABV drinks. Kim Kardashian, however, is zigging where others have zagged. The reality star, 42, is bringing drinking back—at least for herself.

Michael Rubin posted a photo of himself from his Fourth of July party in Bridgehampton, New York raising a shot glass with Kardashian, Tiffany Haddish, and Meek Mill, and one die-hard Kardashian fan posted this thought on Twitter: “Wondering whether Kim actually took this shot.”

Obviously, this person is well aware of the Kardashian cannon, which maintains Kim is not a big drinker. Her sister Khloé Kardashian told Elle in 2016 that Kim “does not drink alcohol whatsoever,” and, “She’s just never been into it.” Just last August, in a video recounting Kylie Jenner’s birthday party, she spit out a shot while coughing and saying, “So fucking nasty.” 

But Kardashian responded, “Oh I sure did. Times 11!” 

Now almost a dozen shots of liquor would do some real damage to any 5 foot 2 non-ish-drinking woman, so one has to imagine she’s exaggerating here. Although, she did tell Gwyneth Paltrow on her Goop podcast that she started to take tequila shots at the end of a long day. “I feel like I just gotta let loose a little bit,” Kardashian said. “’Cause why not, you know? I just feel like I work a lot and I focus…all day after school then it’s like product meetings and testing things and packaging meetings and everything for SKKN.” 

Maybe nearly a year of being apparently single is all one needs to get one’s shot momentum back.