While most concentrate on Kim and her sisters, many haven't taken time to know more about Kris Jenner..The woman who turned the Kardashians in to a household name and built a million dollar empir e..A new article by the NewYork Times , gives an insight in to this powerful mother/manager.. Kristen Mary Jenner (formerly Kardashian, nee Houghton) was born in San Diego in 1955. Her father and her mother divorced when she was young, and her father left, leaving her with her mother and sister and grandparents, who owned a candle store. She was 17 when she met Robert Kardashian, a lawyer 11 years her senior, at the Del Mar racetrack, she in a sweeping wide-brimmed white hat, he with a smile that showed how completely smitten he was. He pursued her, but she wanted to discover the world. She became a flight attendant for American Airlines. She accepted his second proposal, and they married when she was 22. They moved to Beverly Hills, where she occupied the so...