Kim: 'Everything Is Better With a K' Terry Richardson Yes, Kim Kardashian is gracing yet another magazine cover. This time around she's decked out as Cleopatra as a tribute to her idol, Elizabeth Taylor, whom she also interviews for the March issue of Harper's Bazaar. Of course, the mag made sure to get some choice quotes from the 30-year-old reality star, too, who reveals that she gained 10 pounds while filming "Kourtney and Kim Take New York."

Kim: 'Everything Is Better With a K' "All the papers were like, Kim's pregnant!" she laughs. "I ate the nuts on the street corner, the hot dogs, the street meat. It was not a joke." As a result, she's now on a diet. "I need to be," she insists. "I love to eat -- Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day," adding, "It's such a struggle for me to eat healthy."


Kim: 'Everything Is Better With a K' It's also a struggle for her to convince critics that she has any real talent aside from her looks. While that may be partly true, no one can deny that she's turned her reality star status into quite the business empire. "I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious," she says, crediting her late father, famed O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian, and her mother, Kris Jenner, with instilling a strong work ethic in her. "My parents raised us saying that at 18, we'd be cut off," she explains. "If we wanted this lifestyle, we had to work extra hard to get it. All of our friends had credit cards and cell phones, but that wasn't even a possibility."

Kim: 'Everything Is Better With a K' Kim Kardashian channels Cleopatra for her Harper's Bazaar photo shoot. Terry Richardson

Kim: 'Everything Is Better With a K' Now, anything seems to be possible for the curvaceous Armenian, who recently filmed her first music video with Kanye West. "I can carry a tune, yeah," she brags. "I have a cute little voice. I talked to people in the business, and they said, 'This is what we do for fun. You go to the movies, you go shopping, why don't you try what we do?'"

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She also likes to tweet a lot, and when Kim tweets, all of her 6 million plus followers listen. "Once I tweeted, 'Oh my God, I just tried a Golden Oreo. I've never in my life had something so amazing,'" she recalls. "Then Oreo sent me crates of them. To my door. Hmm, I like Bentleys, flat-screen TVs, diamonds... " she muses.

Kim: 'Everything Is Better With a K' As Harper's Bazaar notes, clearly, Kardashian is doing something right. "Everything is better with a K," she says with a touch of irony. "Klassy with a K -- har, har, har. But life is funner with a K."

Kim: 'Everything Is Better With a K' When Kim asked Elizabeth Taylor which of today's actors she would like to work with, the film legend replied: "I love Johnny Depp, and I love Colin Farrell -- both brilliant, nuanced actors with great range."