Kourtney Kardashian: Snapshot

Kourtney Kardashian: Five Fun Facts

1. Motherhood has tamed former party girl Kourtney Kardashian – at least according to her family. "My sister has changed," her sister Khloé Tweeted. "She used to whip her boobs out for no reason. Now she does it to feed her child."
2. Long before becoming Kourtney Kardashian's momager, Kris Jenner guided Kourtney during her years as a Girl Scout. "My mom was my Brownie troop leader...It was like Troop Beverly Hills!" she told PEOPLE.
3. Kourtney Kardashian is one of the few Hollywood stars to talk candidly about plastic surgery. "I have had breast implants," she told ET. "But it's not a secret, I could care less."
4. Kourtney Kardashian has a superstitious flying ritual: "When I go on an airplane, it's right foot first and then I kiss two fingers and touch the plane. When I take off, I cross two fingers on my right hand and put both my thumbs up."
5. Kourtney Kardashian is bilingual – something she's passing on to her son Mason. "We like to speak Spanish to him," she told PEOPLE. "He says 'hug' now. He says it in Spanish and English – abrazo!"

Kourtney Kardashian: Biography

1979

April 18

The Beginning of a Dynasty

Defense attorney Robert Kardashian and his wife, Kris Houghton, welcome their first child, Kourtney Marie, to their posh L.A. lifestyle. Soon, the brood grows with the addition of Kim in 1980, Khloé in 1984 and Robert Jr. in 1987. In school, the sisters "clique" with classmates and future starlets Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.

1994

A Family Trial

After her parents' 1989 divorce, Kourtney's family becomes even more divided when her father, Robert, defends friend O.J. Simpson following the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Mom Kris – who weds Olympian Bruce Jenner in 1991 – believes the football star is guilty of killing her best friend, Nicole, but, "Kourtney and I chose to pick my dad's side because he felt like he was by himself," Kim later tells Joy Behar of the high-profile trial.

1998

That's Major

After graduating from L.A.'s Marymount High School, Kourtney enrolls at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Two years later, she transfers to the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she leaves with a bachelor's degree in theatre arts and Hispanic studies – and a bigger bust. "I wanted to go back to school with new boobs," she said of her senior-year breast augmentation. "It was so dumb."

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