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Kim Kardashian's selfie-based book Selfish is truly artistic in it's own right. While you'd likely roll your eyes at the sheer thought of someone curating and publishing a book that consists of nothing but images of themselves, when you're as famous as Kim Kardashian, even the most mundane parts of your life are game for public consumption.
While flipping through the nearly 450 pages of images, you can see that several pictures include hand-written captions, seemingly scrawled in by Mrs. Kardashian-West herself. These little bits of text give insight into even the most personal aspects of her private life, and add context to the photos she's generously shared within the book. While we can't show every image here (we wouldn't want to spoil everything for you), we couldn't help but point out some of the more curious, bizarre, and simply interesting facts that Selfish has tucked in between its pages. As they say, a picture's worth a thousand words, so you can imagine how much Selfish has in store. These are 16 Surprising Things We Learned From Kim Kardashian's New Selfie Book.
Kim's very first selfie was taken in 1984. She was four.
Kicking off the book, Kim explains that her first selfie is one involving clip-on earrings, a crying baby Khloé, and a disposable camera.
She never really traveled the world until she became friends with Paris Hilton.
Before she was a multimedia superstar, Kim was an L.A. socialite. It's no surprise that she and Paris were in the same circles.
Before she had a cell phone, she used to carry around a digital camera to take selfies.
Back when cell phone pictures were grainier than the sand at the beach, digital cameras were the only way to snap a selfie on the go.
No matter when a selfie was taken, Kim can identify who did her hair and makeup simply by looking at a photo.
There are plenty of shots of Kim getting glammed up in the book, but notes like this one also remind the reader how much Kim actually enjoys getting dressed up—even if she spends hours in the chair.
Kim was scared of doing live interviews with Khloé because “she has no filter.”
The pic referenced is during the early years of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. While we may love Khloé for her “no filter” attitude, when you're building a brand, it's all about playing your cards right (and more importantly, carefully).
It's a Kardashian family tradition to celebrate brithdays in Las Vegas.
Klearly, the Kardashians like to do birthdays big in Sin City.
She met La La Anthony in 2009, and Ciara was the plug.
Kim and La La have been seen out and about together, but that friendship began with a little help from mutual friend, Ciara.
Kim's sisters staged an intervention for her because she has “the ugliest pajamas.”
While we may assume that Kim sleeps in nothing but lingerie, she surprisingly has a history of ugly pajamas.
Kim purchased a white fur Fendi coat to impress Kanye. For the record, he was impressed.
Kanye may have unlocked Kim's swag, but you can bet that she was upgrading her look all on her own. Like anyone, Kim asks her friends for fashion advice. Her fashion guru just happens to be Kanye West.
Bikini selfies are Kim's favorite.
Her caption is, of course, right across a close up shot of Kim in a bikini.
Halloween is one of her favorite holidays, mainly because she's able to dress up.
We're sure that Kim wasn't the only one who liked the leopard costume that Halloween…
Even though Kim used a Blackberry for certain nude photos that leaked online (and doesn't use iCloud), she was also a victim of “The Fappening.”
While the picture above is taken on a Blackberry cell phone (which of course has nothing to do with Apple's iCloud), Kim had nudes mysteriously leak in the highly-publicized iCloud hack.
Kanye's nickname for Kim's spray tans are “'Ye-tans.”
Found within the book's “black section” (read: nude photos), Kim shows off how dark she can get after heading in for a spray tan.
Kim once lied about possessing jewelry from Madonna when she was a child. She confessed the story to Madonna at the 2013 Met Gala.
The 2013 Met Gala was a first for Kim, who also happened to be quite pregnant at the time. This photo is one of many from that night.
It took several failed attempts before Kim finally nailed the now infamous white bathing suit selfie.
The picture that launched the now infamous “HEADING HOME NOW” tweet from Kanye took a few shots to get just right.
Balmain Creative Director Olivier Rousteing helped Kim pick out her wedding location.
Since Kim and Kanye have started dating, Kim has had much more expsure to high fashion designers. While Ye most likely introduced them, Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing and Kim are clearly close friends in their own right.
