Nothing amuses me more than when someone oh-so-gently suggests that this site is on the Kardashian family’s payroll. I wish we rolled with that kind of sell-out money. If they wanted to drop some of that Hermes money here, I would totally roll over and give Kim a tabloid-friendly spanking. CB and I have talked about the “why?” of covering the Kardashians – and we both think that we do it because it’s easy. Because they are some of the easiest celebrities to write about, and because having an opinion about something a Kardashian does or doesn’t do is like breathing. Kim wore this. Approve. Khloe did this. Don’t approve. And on and on. There’s very little thought involved.

But I’m always surprised by the sheer volume of tabloid covers the Kardashians somehow manage to get. Are the tabloids in the same boat as us? Are the Kardashians simply “easy” to somehow get/makeup a cover story? Especially at this time of year, when no one feels like working, people seem to be phoning it in. But considering the number of high-profile splits this week, you’d think someone could have managed, say, a ScarJo cover. Instead, Kim and the Kardashians took two covers – OK! Magazine and Life & Style. Both also involve BABIES too.

Kim Kardashian’s trip to South Africa on December 15 could change her life forever. Life & Style has learned that during her quick trip to promote Brutal Fruit cocktails, she plans to make time to visit the orphanage, Door of Hope — and is considering adoption.

Kim was heartbroken when a friend recently showed her a touching photo of 16 precious babies being cared for at another orphanage, Shepherd’s Keep, in South Africa.

“She couldn’t believe that all these beautiful little babies were orphans,” her friend reveals to Life & Style. “Kim was in shock — she just couldn’t believe that none of them had a mom or a dad to love them and tuck them into bed at night. That picture really changed her mind about adoption.”

She soon found out it was too far to travel from her work commitments in Johannesburg to the orphanage in Durban during her short time in the country so a determined Kim located another orphanage, Door of Hope, near where she was staying. The orphanage has a weight-sensored outdoor bin where desperate mothers leave an average of 16 babies per month.

“Kim was devastated by the statistics,” says the friend. “She contacted her people and asked them to arrange for her to visit the orphanage during her visit.”

“Kim has really come around to the idea that she could raise an orphan as her own child and surround it with the love and family that she grew up with,” the friend continues. “She’s not afraid to be a single mom anymore. She knows she has the money and the support network to raise a baby. Now she just has to find the child that she can be a mother to.”

[From Life & Style]

If Kim is considering adoption, good for her. Until she brings home a little brown baby by hook or by crook, I’ll hold any further opinions. Now, over on OK! Magazine, the focus is less about adoption and more about pregnancy… and the cover is just… ridiculous.

As the Kardashian clan gathers at mom Kris Jenner’s L.A. home for the holidays, they all have to agree: It’s been quite a year for the royal family of reality TV.

There have been highs and lows: Ubiquitous Kim Inc. earned $6 million, making Kim Kardashian 2010’s top reality star, but she also weathered painful breakups with NFL stars Reggie Bush and Miles Austin.

Khloé Kardashian Odom and NBA hoopster hubby Lamar Odom marked their first anniversary, while Kourtney Kardashian and bad-boy baby daddy Scott Disick watched son Mason, 1, grow and are about to move into a sprawling new home. Little sisters Kendall, 15, and Kylie Jenner, 13, launched modeling careers. Now, as they celebrate the holidays, the Kardashians are ready for a Christmas miracle — more babies to add to the family in 2011.

[From OK! Magazine]

I kind of hate myself for hoping that Khloe and Lamar do get pregnant in the new year – she’s been off her birth control for a while, and there are still no babies.

Also – Kim is on People Magazine’s list of “most intriguing” people of the year. Kim is “intriguing”? In what world? I would use words like “obvious” and “famewhore” and “KatFace” to describe her, but whatever.

Some pics of Kim out and about last night. Jesus, her face. It’s obscene.

Magazine covers courtesy of their respective sites.