Kim Kardashian poses for February’s Glamour magazine.

‘I don’t find myself as sexy as everyone thinks,’ she said. ‘I’m a lot more insecure than people would assume, but with little stupid things.’

Despite her protests, the reality star posed in a recent edition of Playboy, something she addresses in her interview with the February edition of U.S. Glamour magazine: ‘It was an independence thing for me.

‘I was always by the book, such the straight arrow when it came to pleasing my parents and being a good daughter. I felt like this was one decision that only I could make. And I think it looks great. I’ll have those pictures forever.’

 

But while she is constantly photographed and her looks emulated, Kim said she had to learn to love the way she looked.

‘It’s a process. You have to learn to accept it. You have to learn to like what you see in the mirror. There are definitely times when I don’t feel like myself, but you have to fake it until you make it.’

Kim, who with her family stars in a series of successful reality shows, also admitted that her fame had effected her ability to find lasting love. The 30-year-old has had a series of failed relationships since finding herself in the public eye.

‘It’s easier to just be single and not have a relationship,’ she said. ‘How do you get to know someone on a reality show? Some people think that they can handle it, and then they really can’t.’

Kim also claimed there were advantages to having her own show.

‘If there’s something that we’re going through, it’s going to get out anyway. It’ll be on the cover of a tabloid, and it’ll be twisted the completely wrong way. So why not tell our story?’

But she told broadcaster Katie Couric, who interviewed her for Glamour, that her fame means her life now is not as she had imagined it.

‘If you had asked me five years ago what I would be doing at 30, I would have said, “Married with a kid or two.” Not in a million years did I dream that I would be doing all the things that I’m doing.’