The Kardashians Wow Armenia On Baptismal Visit
There was a buzz on the streets of Yerevan as sisters Kim and Kourtney Kardashian arrived to baptize their children -- and Kim floated the idea of manufacturing her underwear line in Armenia.
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American reality TV star Kim Kardashian walks with her son Saint in Yerevan on the evening of October 7.
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Kim is often dubbed the "Queen" of social media, with 148 million followers on her Instagram page, and 62 million on her Twitter account.
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Kim puckers up for a selfie with a fan on October 8. The Kardashians were in their ancestral homeland of Armenia to baptize their children.
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Kim Kardashian was also a guest speaker at a technology conference in Yerevan on October 8.
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During the conference, Kardashian said she was looking at ways to manufacture her underwear line in Armenia.
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"I'm definitely talking to a few major Armenian investors about hopefully trying to figure out a factory for my shapewear and about trying to figure out what kind of factories you have that I can manufacture products in here," Kardashian told reporters.
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Kim at the Armenian Genocide Memorial outside of Yerevan on October 8, where the Kardashians paid their respects to the Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks starting in 1915.
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Kim (left) and her older sister Kourtney and Kourtney's children, Penelope (right) and Mason, prepare to lay flowers at the memorial.
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The stone monument and its eternal flame commemorates the mass slaughter and deportation of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks during the World War I-era.
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Kim leaves the memorial past a phalanx of photographers on October 8. The Kardashians' ancestors emigrated to the United States from Armenia in the late 19th century.
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Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian (right) meets with Kim Kardashian in Yerevan on October 9.