Kim Kardashian has no regrets as 'Keeping Up' reality series ends

Fourteen years and twenty seasons later, the Kardashians are moving on

SANTA MONICA, CA - NOVEMBER 11:  2018 E! PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS -- Pictured: (l-r) TV personalities Kendall Jenner, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, and Kris Jenner accept The Reality Show of 2018 award for "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" on stage during the 2018 E! People's Choice Awards held at the Barker Hangar on November 11, 2018 --  NUP_185094  --  (Photo by Alberto Rodriguez/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
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After 14 years of drama, fashion and family, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the television series that made Kim Kardashian and her siblings household names, took its final bow on Thursday with hugs, tears and gratitude.

"I have no regrets. This was, like, the best decade and a half of my life," Kim Kardashian says in the finale.

"I feel like the luckiest girl in the entire world that I get to work with my family every single day," she added. "This is who I am. This show made who we are, and I'll never take that for granted."

FILE - Corey Gamble, from left, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York on May 6, 2019. Their reality series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" will end the series with their 20th season. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
Corey Gamble, from left, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York in 2019. Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

The series ended with hugs for the television crew that has followed the wealthy family in its most intimate moments, and the burial of a time capsule.

Matriarch Kris Jenner buried the certificate she got when she trademarked the word "momager" in 2017 for managing the family's interests, while her daughter Kylie Jenner, 23, contributed the lip gloss kits that made her a billionaire.

"I have no regrets. This was, like, the best decade and a half of my life."

However, the extended family from California has no plans to step back. They will return for a two-part reunion on June 17 and 20, and have a deal for a new series on streaming platform Hulu that is expected to launch later in 2021.

Details about the new show are scarce but Kris Jenner has described it as "the next chapter" for the family.

Over the years, the reality show chronicled the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, including Kim Kardashian's marriage to rapper Kanye West and sister Khloe Kardashian's split with basketball player Lamar Odom.

FILE - In this April 30, 2012, file photo, Khloe Kardashian Odom and Lamar Odom from the show "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" attend an E! Network upfront event at Gotham Hall in New York. A Los Angeles judge on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, finalized Kardashian and Odom's divorce nearly three years after she first filed to end their marriage. The pair were married in September 2009. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
Khloe Kardashian Odom and Lamar Odom before their divorce. AP Photo/Evan Agostini

It also launched the beauty and fashion empires of Kim Kardashian and her half sister Kylie, Kendall Jenner's modelling career, spin-off shows for Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian and a social media presence in which Kim now counts some 227 million Instagram followers.

West and Caitlyn Jenner, did not appear in the final episode, which was filmed last winter, before Kim Kardashian filed for divorce and Jenner announced she was running for election as California governor.

Keeping Up with the Kardashians made its debut on NBC Universal's E! Network in 2007, airs in some 90 nations in 20 languages, and spawned multiple spin-off shows.

Audiences in the United States have declined in the past year to under 1 million from about 4 million at the height of the show's fame.

The family announced last September that they would end the show but gave no reasons for the decision.