In the March 27 episode of The Kardashians, the sisters celebrated the fifth anniversary of the creation of the UCLA Robert G. Kardashian Center for Esophageal Health, which was founded in their Dad’s honor after he died of esophageal cancer in 2003.
The visit prompted them all to reflect; in confessionals, each sister shared some thoughts on their late father — and revealed what he would think of their lives today.
“He was very playful and very fun,” Kim, 44, said of her Dad’s demeanor, but she also admitted that he’d “be pretty pissed off at a lot of things too” if he were around today.
“I’d be grounded for life already,” she joked.
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Khloé, 40, similarly recalled that her dad was “incredibly goofy” and very much a “class clown” as she admitted, “I’m sure some of our antics he probably wouldn’t be too thrilled with.”
“But I also think if he was here, we would probably also be different at the same time,” she continued. “Like, maybe not make some of the stupid choices we’ve made. Who knows?”
Kourtney, 45, said she thinks Robert Sr. would’ve liked being on their reality shows Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Kardashians.
“He would definitely be in on the pranks with us,” she said, adding, “He would be super proud of the families that we’ve created and that we’ve all stayed so close.”
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Out of everything, though, Kim said her late dad would be most proud of the work of the UCLA foundation to fund esophageal cancer research.
“There’s a few things in life that my dad would be really proud of us for and this is definitely one of them. We weren’t able to save his life with this new technology and with the access to these doctors, but now we can help save other people’s lives,” she said in a confessional.
Robert Sr. was married to Kris Jenner from 1978 to 1991, and they also shared son Rob, 38. He died in 2003 after a brief battle with cancer, but, as Kourtney noted in the episode, “We didn’t know that it was stage 4, but we knew that he had cancer.”
She added of the foundation’s work, “People will come up to me once in a while and say, ‘Do you know how incredible it is that we have this center and that it exists and how many lives it’s helping?’ and that it’s all in my dad’s name — it really does mean a lot.”
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