How tall is Kim Kardashian?

Kim Kardashian's height: 159 cm (about 5′2½″)

Kim Kardashian is listed on this site at 159 cm, which converts to about 5′2.6″. That figure comes from Wikidata, the structured database behind many search engine panels. Press coverage and fan sites usually describe her as 5′2″, and occasionally 5′3″; 159 cm sits between those two numbers, so both are reasonable roundings. Unlike athletes or models, reality stars have no roster or agency card listing a measured height, so a figure within about an inch is the realistic level of precision.

What makes Kim's height interesting is not the number itself, which is close to ordinary for an American woman, but the context around it. She belongs to a famous family with an exceptionally wide spread of heights, she has been photographed beside partners ranging from about 173 cm to over 2 meters, and her public image is built on fashion and styling choices that change how tall she appears.

Fame, family and a career built on camera

Kimberly Noel Kardashian was born on October 21, 1980, in Los Angeles, to attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Kardashian (now Kris Jenner). Her father died in 2003. She first drew media attention in her teens and twenties through friendships with Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton, and became one of the most recognized people in the world after Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered in October 2007. The show ran for 294 episodes until 2021 and was followed by The Kardashians on Hulu from April 2022.

Her career since has expanded well beyond reality TV:

Skims, which she co-founded in June 2019 with Jens Grede and Emma Grede, has grown into her biggest business, with valuations reported at about $4 billion in 2023 and $5 billion in late 2025. The brand produces clothing from XXS to 5XL, a wide range that reflects a design goal of fitting many different body types and heights.

The Kardashian-Jenner family: a 30 cm spread

The family's height range is one of the reasons Kim's height is so often searched. Using heights stored on this site:

Kim sits near the shorter end of her family. Her older sister Kourtney is about 4 cm shorter, while her younger sister Khloé is about 16 cm taller and her half-sister Kendall about 21 cm taller. That spread, from 155 to 180 cm among the sisters, is larger than the average difference between American men and women.

It is a good illustration of how height varies within families. Height is strongly heritable at the population level, with twin studies commonly putting heritability at roughly 60 to 80 percent, but it is shaped by many genes, and siblings inherit different combinations of them. Kendall and Kylie Jenner also have a different second parent from Kim, Kourtney, Khloé and Rob, which adds to the variation. This site does not list heights for Kris Jenner, Kylie Jenner or Rob Kardashian because reliable figures are not available.

Kim next to her partners and co-stars

Kim's public relationships have produced some of the most-discussed celebrity height gaps of the past 15 years. The comparisons below use heights stored on this site and are presented only because they appear in widely published photographs.

The most extreme gap is with former NBA player Kris Humphries, whom she married briefly in 2011. At 207 cm, he stood about 48 cm taller than her, more than the length of a typical adult arm. Pete Davidson, at 190.5 cm, is about 31.5 cm taller, and the photos of the two together in 2021 and 2022 were among the most-discussed celebrity pairings of that period.

Kanye West, her husband from 2014 until their divorce was finalized in 2022, is the closest in height of her partners, about 13.7 cm taller. That gap is close to the average difference between American men and women, so they looked like a fairly typical couple in height terms, especially when Kim wore heels. They have four children together. Reliable sources do not publish the children's heights, and this page does not speculate about them.

You can see any of these pairings to scale with the height difference calculator.

Heels, styling and apparent height

Kim is rarely photographed in flat shoes at public events, and her styling has a big effect on how tall she looks. A few general points explain why her apparent height varies so much in photos:

• Heels. Red carpet and event heels commonly add 10 to 13 cm. In such shoes, a 159 cm woman stands roughly 169 to 172 cm, close to the height of the average American man in older age groups.
• Long gowns. Floor-length dresses and coordinated hosiery hide the shoe and create an unbroken vertical line, which reads as taller.
• Camera angle. Photos taken from below eye level, common on red carpets, lengthen the figure.
• Company. Next to tall sisters or partners, she looks shorter than she is; next to Kourtney, she looks taller.

That is why fans sometimes guess Kim is taller than 5′2″ based on event photos, while candid photos with Kendall or Khloé make the difference obvious. The 159 cm figure on this site is meant as a barefoot height.

How 159 cm compares with American women

The best current benchmark comes from the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), which measures thousands of Americans with a stadiometer. In the August 2021 to August 2023 survey, American women aged 40 to 49, Kim's age group in 2026, had a mean height of 161.7 cm and a median of 162.0 cm. The 25th percentile was 157.2 cm.

By the NHANES figures, Kim is a little shorter than the typical American woman her age, at roughly the 35th percentile. In other words, about one in three American women in their 40s is shorter than she is, and about two in three are taller. She is about 3 cm below the median, a difference that would be hard to notice in person.

The NCD-RisC birth-cohort estimates, which look at women by year of birth rather than current age, put the average for American women born in the mid-1970s at 164.0 cm, about 5 cm taller than Kim. The two data sets measure slightly different things and come from different methods, but both say the same thing: Kim is a little below average height, not short in any unusual sense. The average height in the United States page explains how the cohort averages are built, and the height percentile calculator shows where any height falls.

Kim among famous women of similar height

On this site, several well-known women sit close to Kim's height:

Ariana Grande and Kamala Harris are within about 2 cm of Kim, so in flat shoes the three would stand at nearly the same eye level. Lady Gaga and her sister Kourtney are a little shorter. These comparisons show that many of the most photographed women in entertainment and politics are, like Kim, at or a little below average height, despite the common assumption that celebrities are taller than the people around them.

A global and historical view of 159 cm

Kim's height looks different depending on where and when you compare it. Her father's family was Armenian-American, and the NCD-RisC data on this site show that Armenian women born in 1976 averaged 158.5 cm and those born in 1996 158.1 cm, essentially the same as Kim's 159 cm. By that benchmark she is exactly average.

The historical comparison is striking. American women born in 1896 averaged 158.5 cm, so Kim would have been an average-height woman in her great-grandmothers' generation. Average height for American women then rose by about 5 cm over the following 80 years, mostly thanks to better childhood nutrition and health, before leveling off from the 1950s cohorts onward. In countries such as India or Mexico, a 159 cm woman would be above the national average; in the Netherlands, where women are the tallest in Europe, she would be nearly 10 cm below it. Height, in other words, is always relative, and "a little below average" in Los Angeles can be average or even tall elsewhere.

What 159 cm means in everyday life

At 159 cm, a woman is in the most common height band for American adults. Standard women's clothing is generally designed around this range, though petite sizing, typically aimed at women about 5′4″ and under, often fits better in sleeve and inseam length. Skims, the brand Kim co-founded, offers sizes from XXS to 5XL, and like many apparel companies it has to account for a wide range of heights and builds within each size.

For comparison, the average American man in the NHANES data is about 175 cm, around 16 cm taller than Kim. That difference is close to the average height gap between men and women in the United States, which is why most of her male co-stars and friends appear noticeably taller in photos, even before heels are considered.

Summary

Kim Kardashian is about 159 cm (5′2½″), a figure from Wikidata that press reports often round to 5′2″. She is roughly 3 cm shorter than the median American woman her age in the CDC's NHANES survey, at around the 35th percentile. Within her family, she is about 4 cm taller than Kourtney, 16 cm shorter than Khloé and 21 cm shorter than Kendall Jenner. Her former husband Kanye West is about 14 cm taller, Pete Davidson about 31.5 cm taller, and Kris Humphries, at 207 cm, about 48 cm taller. Heels and styling often make her look taller in photos than her barefoot height. To see her to scale next to any celebrity in the catalog, use the 3D height comparison tool.