Khloé Kardashian’s “The Girls: A Khloé Kardashian Project” premiered Friday on Hulu and Disney+, shifting the spotlight for the first time in nearly two decades away from the Kardashian-Jenner family and onto the women who have long stood alongside them.
The six-episode unscripted series follows Natalie Halcro, Khadijah Haqq, Malika Haqq, Yris Palmer, Olivia Pierson and Nicole Williams English, all longtime friends of Kardashian who have appeared on her family’s shows for years without becoming its center. Kardashian serves as executive producer and narrator and appears occasionally onscreen, but she made a deliberate choice to stay off the main cast list. She discussed that decision, along with unexpected friction among her friends, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Friday.
Kardashian told the outlet she knew the women were comfortable on camera and genuinely liked one another, though filming revealed dynamics she hadn’t fully grasped beforehand. Some friends turned out to be closer with each other than she realized, while others kept more distance than their shared connection to her might suggest. The series leans into that tension, tracking the women through career launches, parenting struggles and unfiltered group conversations that occasionally turn into conflict.
The cast brings varied histories with the Kardashian-Jenner orbit. Khadijah and Malika Haqq have been friends with Khloé for more than two decades and appeared on the family’s earlier shows. Yris Palmer built a relationship with the family through her work as a lash technician for Kylie Jenner before launching her own beauty business.
Nicole Williams English, a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit alum, brings her own reality television background from “WAGS.” Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind the original “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” produced the new series, marking a full-circle moment for a franchise that helped define the genre nearly 20 years ago.
The Hollywood Reporter also learned that “The Kardashians” will return for an eighth season in October, continuing the flagship series that “The Girls” now exists alongside rather than replaces. Kardashian described the new show as something distinct from another family spinoff, built instead around the friendships that have quietly persisted through years of tabloid attention and reality television scrutiny.
