Kim Kardashian’s wedding... Every tabloid TV show and website had updates on the upcoming nuptials between her and Kris Humphries, with each article and episode getting more frantic as the wedding day approached.
The wedding, I suppose, was perfect. Hell, for $10 million, it should be (although it bought a lot more than that in media exposure, bringing a net profit to the Kardashian clan, I’m sure). The bride and groomed, decked out in the finest wedding clothes money could buy exchanged their vows, and pledged to be with each other forever.
But all of a sudden something unexpected happened: the engagement was over, the wedding was over, the honeymoon was over, and all that awaited was married life and the anticipated wedded bliss. The attention disappeared, the newness wore off, and we were finally given a definition of forever: 71 days.
Yep, 71 days after the celebrity bride and groom exchanged vows, Kim Kardashian filed for divorce, meekly mumbling that “forever that day and forever right now are two different things.” Uh...
Kardishian, of course, never got married for the purpose of getting married. Like millions of women, she got married because there is incredible pressure to do so, got married because of all the attention the buildup to the big day brings. And, like millions of women, when she got a taste of reality, she didn’t like the taste at all. And so now we know forever is not forever.
