Kim Kardashian Admits She Once Faked a Visit to Britney Spears So She’d Be Photographed By Paparazzi

Kim Kardashian once pretended she was visiting Britney Spears to trick the paparazzi.

The businesswoman, 45, was so desperate to boost her profile during her early career that she and her good friend Jonathan Cheban, 51, hitched a ride to a New York City hotel where the pop megastar, 44, was staying because they knew it would be surrounded byphotographers.

Recently speaking on her sister Khloe Kardashian‘s Khloe In Wonderland podcast, Kim explained: “[Being famous] was all I wanted, I lived for it.”

“We were at a restaurant and we heard these people … like: ‘Oh Britney Spears is staying at this hotel in New York,'” Kim contuined. “So this person at dinner had this crazy Phantom Rolls Royce. Jonathan and I could hardly even get a cab …So, we were like: ‘Can we get a ride to our hotel?’ and the guy’s like: ‘Yeah.’ And … we were like we’ll sit in the back.”

“So, it looks like we got out with a driver at this hotel, and we got out,” said Kim. “Paparazzi everywhere waiting for Britney. At her hotel.”

When Kim — who later met Spears in the 2000s through their mutual pal Paris Hilton — and Cheban got out of the car, they kept quiet about why they were at the hotel.

She added: “They weren’t following us at this point, and we got out and they were like: ‘Kim, Kim, Kim are you here to visit Britney?’ and Jonathan’s like, ‘Keep your head down and just like shut up’.”

While inside the hotel, the friends were unsure about where to go, so they took cover in a phone booth.

After 20 minutes, they headed back outside and hailed a cab to keep their story going.

The Skims founder said: “So we go inside and we go in a phone booth because we don’t know anyone at this hotel. We don’t even know if there’s like a hotel bar for us to walk in.

“So we go and like hang in the phone both in this hotel for 20 minutes. And we’re like: ‘Alright, let’s go out’. And we come out and they’re like: ‘Kim how was Britney?’ … We took a cab I think because this Rolls Royce dropped us off … We totally scammed the system, and it was on like every cover, and we thought we were killing it.”