In the latest episode of The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian faced an unexpected diagnosis — not from a court or fashion critic, but from a doctor reviewing her brain scan. “Your brain is less active than it should be,” he said, pointing to areas of low activity in her frontal lobe. When Kardashian, visibly concerned, asked, “What are those holes?” the doctor replied with chilling simplicity: “Yeah, I don’t like that.”
For a reality TV moment, it was almost too on-the-nose.
The doctor elaborated: the so-called “holes” represented decreased activity — especially in the frontal lobe, the brain’s command center for judgment, stress regulation, memory, and self-control. In short: the very region you’d hope would be firing on all cylinders if you’re studying for the California bar exam while juggling a billion-dollar business, four kids, and the psychological endurance sport that is public life as a Kardashian.
To her credit, Kim didn’t flinch for long. “That just can’t be. It just can’t. Not accepting,” she said in a confessional. And then, true to form, she pivoted from worry to action. “I’ve got to get on a plan to really figure this out, because I have some sh*t to do this summer.”
Indeed, she does.
Kardashian has been open about her long road toward becoming a lawyer, most recently revealing she fell just short of passing the California bar. “Failing short isn’t failure — it’s fuel,” she said, adding that after six years of study, she’s still committed. But in a plot twist that feels pulled from an SNL sketch, she also admitted to using ChatGPT to help her prep for exams — and, yes, even blamed it for contributing to her exam flops.
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Which raises a fascinating, if slightly absurd, chain of causality: did over-reliance on AI lead to study shortcuts, which contributed to academic underperformance, which piled on stress, which possibly impacted her brain function… which now shows up on scans as literal holes in neural activity?
It would be easy to write this off as another manufactured moment in a scripted reality universe. But it taps into something real: the pressure to perform at superhuman levels, the seductive promise of AI shortcuts, and the brain’s very human limits. Even Kim Kardashian — beauty mogul, influencer, aspiring attorney — isn’t immune.
The Cleveland Clinic notes the frontal lobe is responsible for personality, memory, movement, and decision-making. It’s the region that makes you you. And if Kardashian’s scan showed diminished activity there, it might not be a medical crisis — but it is a cultural one.
Because in 2023, maybe we’ve all been running too hot for too long. Maybe the “holes” aren’t a Kardashian anomaly but a warning: stress, overwork, reliance on digital crutches — it takes a toll.
