Khloe Kardashian didn't know what she was getting into when Kris Jenner first approached her about doing a family-based reality TV show many years ago. In fact, Kris downright "misled" her.

The Good American designer spoke about the origins of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" while on the "Side by Side with Malika & Khadijah" YouTube show this week.
"Me and Kourt both were like, 'We just want to film at our stores,'" Khloe said, recalling the conversations that were had before cameras ever rolled. "My mom sort of misled us a little bit. She was like, 'Yeah, we're just going to film at the stores. It's all you have to do.' And we did it but we didn't really know what we were getting into. Then, we were just like, 'Okay, we're already here. We'll just do it.'"
In the early stages of the show — which ran from 2007 to 2021 — Khloe said she never intended to open up her life for the world to consume.
"It all snowballed into something else, but in the beginning I don't think any of us knew what we were doing," she said.

Malika and Khadijah, for that matter, also admit they didn't know what was going on when they began appearing on the E! show.
"I remember one time I was in DASH, this is when I was working there, and your mom was like, 'We're doing a show, everybody look alive, sign that right there, let's go,'" Malika said, adding that she was almost going to be supportive of Khloe. "We knew whatever [Khloe] was doing, we were riding with her."