By | Photography by Daniel Jack Lyons for WSJ. Magazine | Styling by Dani Mitchell
Despite the West Coast’s summer heat, reality star and entrepreneur Kourtney Kardashian Barker is sipping from a piping-hot cup of matcha green tea in her office in Calabasas, California. “Do you want to know a fun fact about me? I can sleep at any time. I can have a cup of coffee and take a nap,” the 43-year-old mother of three says, tucking her shoulder-length black hair behind her ears. Is it her superpower? “Yes, it is,” she says, “and Kim has the same one.”
Obviously, Kim, 41, is her younger sister, the Kardashian-Jenner brood’s most successful transition from reality-TV personality to business powerhouse. Earlier this year, after combining her social media and direct-to-consumer marketing savvy, Kim’s now three-year-old shapewear company, Skims, was valued at $3.2 billion. In 2019, another of Kardashian Barker’s sisters, Kylie Jenner, now 25, leveraged her network of fans who came to her for lip kits to sell a majority stake in her Kylie Cosmetics company to Coty at a $1.2 billion valuation.