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Kim Kardashian Times Her Beach Trips to the Most Flattering Sunlight: Rolling Stone Interview Highlights

Kim Kardashian on Rolling Stone Cover
Kim Kardashian talked to Rolling Stone about her beach strategy, her teen romance with Michael Jackson's nephew, her thoughts on Caitlyn Jenner, and more

If only she could control Mother Nature! Kim Kardashian goes to great lengths to make sure she always looks her best, even timing her beach trips to when the sunlight will be most flattering. Chatting with Vanessa Grigoriadis for the new issue of Rolling Stone — and posing for Terry Richardson in an accompanying photo shoot — the pregnant-again reality star, 34, made it very clear that her image is important to her.

"When I go on vacation, I only go to the beach certain times of the day, and lay out by the pool the rest of the time," she explained, noting that the sun is often too flat and unflattering in photos. "In Miami, I'll get up at six and swim in the ocean at seven in the morning right before the harsh sun comes up — and the pictures always look amazing."

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The Selfish author also dished to the mag on a variety of other topics, including her teen romance with Michael Jackson's nephew, her celebutante past, her marriage to Kanye West, and her stepparent Caitlyn Jenner. Check out six highlights from the interview below:

1. She dated TJ Jackson, the youngest son of Michael Jackson's brother Tito Jackson, for several years in her teens. "[My dad] explained to me that he's had a lot of interracial friends, and it might not be the easiest relationship," Kardashian told RS. "He said I should prepare myself for people to say things to me…When I was growing up, when I was in high school, I'd get magazines and see interracial couples and think, 'They are so cute.' I've always been attracted to a certain kind of look."

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2. She goes commando most of the time — but you probably won't catch her accidentally flashing anyone while getting out of a car. "I rarely wear underwear, but that never happened to me," she said of hanging with Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, who fell victim to a crotch shot or two in the early aughts. "I was never drinking. I think that saved me a lot."

3. She and former BFF Hilton never talked about their sex tapes. "No, I don't think she was that happy," Kardashian said of whether they commiserated. "We didn't really talk about it. I probably would have thought, 'Oh, my gosh, let me give her advice,' but we had no communication. But our friendship had fizzled before that."

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4. She was living with her late father, Robert Kardashian, when he defended O.J. Simpson in the athlete's 1994 murder trial. "It was surreal, with Johnnie Cochran and Robert Shapiro and all these guys having meetings at my dad's house," she recalled. "I definitely took my dad's side. We just always thought my dad was the smartest person in the world, and he really believed in his friend."

5. She discovered Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce Jenner) trying on women's clothes when she was 22. "I was shaking," Kardashian shared. "I didn't know if I'd just found out his deepest, darkest secret, and he was going to come after me. I grabbed my duffel bag…ran out to the car." 

Jenner called her 30 minutes later and said, "One day, I'll talk to you about this. Until then, don't tell a soul." 

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6. She told West about Jenner before their May 2014 wedding. "I wasn't sure if Bruce was going to be comfortable walking me down the aisle," Kardashian explained. "He had just had his trachea shaved, so I knew something was going on. I thought that Kanye should know that this is the reality about one of his daughter's grandparents…[Kanye] obviously moves to his own drum. He lives his life the way he wants, a really authentic life, and he was like, 'If you can't be authentic and you can't live your life, what do you have?'"

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