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Rosaleen Fenton

Ex-Kardashian employee claims she was barely paid enough to live

TV star Kim Kardashian has been slammed after complaining that people "don't want to work these days."

Her comments were shared by a woman claiming to have worked on an app promoting the TV star.

Jessica DeFino said she worked on the apps which featured the reality star and her family in 2015 - and struggled to afford food.

Kim, 41, was blasted after moaning: "Nobody wants to work these days."

The mega-privileged influencer who grew up in luxurious surroundings has found herself in hot water over her comments.

She preached: "I have the best advice for women in business. 'Get your f***ing ass up and work'."

She told US mag Variety : "It seems like nobody wants to work these days,' before adding: "You have to surround yourself with people that want to work.

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"Have a good work environment where everyone loves what they do because you have one life.

"No toxic work environments and show up and do the work."

In response, beauty writer Jessica DeFino wrote on Twitter that she worked “days, nights and weekends” and “could only afford groceries from the 99 Cents Only Store” while working on the app.

In full, she said: “I was an editor on the Kardashian apps in 2015 in LA, worked days nights & weekends, could only afford groceries from the 99 Cents Only Store, called out ‘sick’ more than once bc I couldn’t put gas in my car to get to the office, & was reprimanded for freelancing on the side.”

In another tweet, she added: "The wildest thing about that job: I saw firsthand how the most famous women in the world Frankensteined an impossible standard of beauty, pushed the rest of us to “keep up” with them, weaponized that standard of beauty to sell products, and *still* never felt good enough."

People on social media also weren't impressed by Kim's comments.

One wrote: "Yeah. I could get off my ass and work more if I had nannies, drivers, chefs, personal trainers, and personal assistants doing all of my other work."

Another added: "What most successful people don’t realize is that success is just as much luck and circumstance as hard work.

"Just cause you worked hard (and I’m not denying that the Kardashians have) doesn’t mean you’ll be successful. 'I worked hard and got rich,' is not a helpful narrative."

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