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Kim Kardashian

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'When I'm staying at my place I'll wake up at 9am but when I'm at my mom's [Kris Jenner; also her business manager] she wakes everyone up at 7am. I like to try to work out early in the morning - I have a new trainer and it's so hard.

I'll finish exercising around 10am, try to stop to get a tea - I don't drink coffee, I've never liked it - and I'll have some oatmeal when I get home. That pretty much fills me up for the first part of the day. After that I head straight to my store [Dash, in Calabasas, California]. My sisters Kourtney and Khloe and I run it; we all have different roles. My sisters are usually waiting for me because they live right next door, but I have to come from Beverly Hills and it takes me 30 minutes.

Khloe runs the store on a daily basis, Kourtney does all of the billing and the three of us do all of the buying. Kourtney owns a store right next door, with my mum, called Smooch, so she's been in Calabasas a little bit longer and knows the customers and what we should buy, even if it's not to our personal taste.

I stay in the back of the store and do the inventory and open up all the boxes we get. I get a lot of stuff delivered that other designers want me to look at or wear, which is amazing, but my sisters get irritated sometimes because all these boxes come for me and the shop isn't that big.

We opened a year and a half ago and [Dash] is the first boutique that has designer stuff out in Calabasas. It's sort of country and, in the past, all the moms would drive to Beverly Hills to find fashionable things, but they don't have to anymore. The store has been doing so well and we're going to launch an online version soon, before the [Christmas] holidays. We have a lot of celebrity clients, which is really cool because they show everyone what they buy here.

We make our buying trips fun too. My sisters and I always go to New York together; we find excuses to.

When we're buying we try to make sure all three of us are there. We have a two-against-one system, if we don't all agree on an item we need two to say yes in order to purchase it for our store. If I'm on my own I can buy, and so can Khloe if she is alone, but Kourtney isn't allowed to - she has the funkiest taste, and every time she buys something we get really upset when it comes into the store a month later. It's all really fun because we get to see everything six months before it even comes out. We're ahead of the game.

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