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Kim Kardashian Opens Up About Divorce on Live With Kelly

by Peter Gicas Mon., Jan. 23, 2012 9:42 AM PST

For Kim Kardashian, things have obviously been a little tough recently.

"It's been a hard couple of months," the E! reality star told Kelly Ripa while cohosting Live With Kelly this morning, when the subject of her short-lived marriage to Kris Humphries came up at the beginning of the show.

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Kim revealed that when the union ended, she packed up nothing more than "two pairs of sweatpants and a pair of pajamas" and moved in with her mom, Kris Jenner, to do "some soul searching" and admitted she was shocked that the public thought the marriage was nothing but a cash-grabbing opportunity.

"If you really think about it, if this was a business decision and I really made all that money that everyone was claiming that we made off this wedding, and if the wedding was fake and just for TV, I'm a smart businesswoman, I would have stayed married longer," said Kim. "I really didn't think following my heart would create this much backlash."

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Kim insisted she "tried everything that [she] could" to make the union with Humphries last, adding: "I want that forever love, and if I feel in my heart this isn't right, then why wait years to have the same results?"

In other words, the self-proclaimed "hopeless romantic" considers the unfortunate experience as just one of life's little lessons.

"I think I just learned that I need to rewrite my fairytale," Kim said.

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