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Kris Jenner is the “momager” of the large Kardashian-Jenner clan, a woman who has managed to parlay her family’s budding fame into a massive media empire. She isn’t an actor or a singer, but her business sense has proven to be second to none.

Over the years, Jenner’s wealth (and the wealth of her family, including daughter Kim Kardashian West) has increased to truly staggering proportions. These days, with Keeping Up with the Kardashians currently airing the final season, Jenner is opening up about her family secrets, admitting what daughter she would rely on in a crisis situation. 

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Jenner first rose to fame in 2007, with the debut of the reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. As Kardashian West’s mother, Jenner was seen in the early days of her fame shuttling her daughter to business appointments and photoshoots, always providing support and a second opinion.

In the months that followed the debut of the reality series, Jenner started managing her other children’s careers as well, gradually earning the nickname “momager.” 

Jenner runs her own production company and is a big part of many of her children’s most successful business ventures. With a reported net worth of $170 million, Jenner has made a fabulous living from her life in reality television.

Even though Keeping Up with the Kardashians will no longer be airing new episodes after this final season, it seems likely that Jenner won’t really be going anywhere, remaining in the public eye for years to come. 

Which daughter would Kris Jenner call in a crisis situation?

Kris Jenner smiles as she poses for cameras at the Nazarian Institute's ThinkBIG 2020 Conference
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With six children to take care of, and a slew of young grandchildren, Kris Jenner has a lot of family members to keep up with on a daily basis. While Jenner has joked that she has different “favorites” depending on the day and her mood, there is one child in particular that she would turn to if she really needed help in a crisis. 

In a recent interview with WSJ. Magazine, Jenner revealed that she would reach out to Kardashian West in case of a tough situation. “Kim would be my girl,” Jenner stated. “She’s always all of our go-to whenever anything happens, because she’s so calm and she’s the one who really thinks things through. Kim is your girl.”

Kim Kardashian is a major social media and reality television star

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In the same interview, Kardashian West gave her mom props for keeping it together so well. “We will scream at her for having her mom hat on when we need the manager hat on,” said Kardashian West. “I feel so bad for her. She deserves every award on the planet for just having six kids who have really full lives. And torturing her the way that we do.”

Kardashian West also gave Jenner credit for her tireless work ethic, admitting that the mom of six helped plant the seeds of her entrepreneurial nature early.

Fans know Kardashian West for her reality show fame, the breakout star of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and a high-powered businesswoman. Kardashian West has launched multiple successful businesses in the past few years, including SKIMS, her lingerie and shapewear line, KKW Beauty, and several fragrance lines.

In addition, Kardashian West is hard at work to become a lawyer, focusing on work in the human rights and prison reform space. All in all, she has come a long way from her beginnings as Paris Hilton’s BFF, to become a inspiring success story in her own right — and clearly, she has her mother, Jenner, to thank for some of that success.