Kim Kardashian didn't have any objection to sharing that she had failed her bar exam.
In fact, the Kardashians star, who has spent the last six years in a law school program, said she "instantly" knew she had to make the results public before news spread online.
"You get the results on a Friday, and I knew Sunday morning they were going to be live on the internet," Kim told the New York Times in an interview published Dec. 4. "I was like, 'OK, let's do this, I know what I've got to do. This really sucks because I put so much time into it, but I know what I can do better.'"
She continued, "I'm pretty good at taking a failure and turning it into something and I just don't have the time to dwell. You can feel sorry for yourself for a second, but I need to take that time and put it into studying more."
Still, the 45-year-old did take a minute to process the news.
"I didn't feel good about it," she admitted. "I was really uncomfortable and not confident for a while."
So, what is Kim's plan now?
"Falling short isn't failure—it's fuel," she wrote on her Instagram Story Nov. 8, after announcing her bar exam results. "I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivates me even more."
And even if she had passed the big test, the SKIMS founder wasn't going to stop studying. As she told journalist Martha Debayle late last month, "Discipline is a form of self-respect."
"I just loved the routine of studying," she continued. "That's something I can control. Maybe it's a control freak, but I love that space and I love living in that space no matter what."
Sharing that it "just wasn't my time" to pass the bar exam, Kim added, "I instantly knew that it's a bigger lesson and that I just have to do better and try harder and get back at it."
For a look at Kim's evolution through the years, read on.