Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian peeled back the curtain on the Kardashian-Jenner’s annual Christmas Eve party.
“So for people who don’t know, every year we do a traditional Christmas Eve party that we’ve done since before I’ve been born, my mom has been hosting them, since the ‘70s,” Kardashian said, 41, during the Wednesday, December 17, episode of Kardashian’s “Khloé in Wonderland” podcast. “And my mom has always hosted them, and then once her kids got older, she sort of handed the baton off when you felt comfortable that we would represent you properly, and we’ve all done a good job. It used to rotate siblings’ homes on who was going to host it.”
Jenner, 70, added that the party is “a really big undertaking.”
“I think that it really takes a lot of energy, time, resources, money, creativity, just all of it,” Jenner explained. “And we used to do — before there was all of the social media platforms and much easier to do digital photos, we’d have a whole photoshoot with the whole family and we’d wear our Christmas outfits and do these beautiful photoshoots and they would get bigger and bigger and bigger the more kids everybody had. And those made me so happy.”
Every year the family, which also includes Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Rob Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, gets together to celebrate the holidays with their closest friends and family. The extravagant soiree typically features top-oft-the line decorations and entertainment.
Khloé explained that the family will also hold meetings, that not everyone attends, to help plan the event.
“Not everyone shows up, and that’s fine, but if you don’t show up, you don’t get a say so,” Khloé shared. “Then you can’t come to the third meeting and be like, I don’t like that. No, we had two meetings before and we already decided on X, Y, and Z.”
As for who pays for it all, Khloé revealed that they “all equally split the cost of the party.”
“These parties are so epic and they’ve grown into this enormous proportion and everybody looks forward to it every year. Our friends who’ve never celebrated Christmas love to come,” Kris said. “And it’s so much fun and we always dance at the end of the party, we always have a DJ, usually a performance, which is so exciting, last time we had a party I think it was Babyface, and did all of his beautiful Christmas music, and then we had a DJ and we just have the best time.”
Kris explained that the annual bash started off small but has grown exponentially as her children started inviting their friends to party.
“When you guys got older and you grew up, you guys all had your own friends and all the sudden there was a hundred more people, now there’s a couple hundred, two to 300 people at a Christmas party,” she reflected. “I thought, ‘OK this has got to start rotating.’ I thought it was so much more fun.”
Khloé confessed that she’s not a big fan of hosting the annual event and expressed her gratitude toward her mom for sparing her this year.
“I don’t want the reins. I don’t want that many people in my house. And this year, I was very proud of you for saving me,” she admitted. “Because they were like, ‘Kim’s house is under construction, so is Kourtney’s house.’ I don’t know what’s going on with Kylie’s why that wasn’t an option, I don’t even know what happened and then you were like, ‘Let’s put it at Kendall’s.’ So happy because everyone was like, ‘Khloé’s house!’ You think I want people in my home? No. No! I don’t want the party.”
