Seventy-two days after their lavish wedding ceremony watched by more than 4 million TV viewers, Kim Kardashian, 30, has announced that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Kris Humphries, 26.
It is estimated that the wedding cost $10 million, while the Kardashians’ ended up making $18 million from various media partnerships.
Here is what her marriage could have paid for:
- about 79 students’ college tuition for all four years at a UC campus
- 200 household incomes for average Americans.
- 426 brand-new 2011 Toyota Priuses
- 7.75 million songs on iTunes
- 25,000 16GB iPod touches
- 2.5 million gallons of gasoline
- 1.86 million double-double burgers at In-N-Out
- 167,000 Bay Bridge weekday tolls
After the news broke about the Kardashian split, a new trend emerged on twitter: #ThingsLongerThanKimsMarriage. Some popular tweets regarding things longer than the Kardashian nuptials:
- The pause after Dora the Explorer asks a question
- Justin Bieber’s chest hair
- Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance speech before Kanye interrupted her
- However long it took to find Nemo
- My iPhone battery
Some other tweets that pertain to Albany students:
- Mr. James’ lectures on the Soviet Union
- The cafeteria line during break
- The wait for college acceptance/rejection letters
- The number of questions on the SAT
- The wait at the DMV
- The time it takes for an average teenage girl to get ready in the morning
- Our block periods
- The length of the school’s wifi password
- The Occupy protests
- The amount of time it took to write this article
All jokes aside, Kim Kardashian put so much time, money and media into her wedding only to give up on her marriage after 72 days. It leaves the question of who is truly ruining the sanctity of marriage in our society?
