The Kim Kardashian divorce debacle has become a public relations nightmare for the Kardashians. Mom Kris has made it much worse while she’s on her book tour. She’s been saying that Kim shouldn’t have to give the ring back, that this was a difficult decision for Kim to divorce her husband after less than three months, and that we don’t know her family at all, only of course they’re an “open book.” So now the Kardashians are doing damage control, and it’s coming across as lame and fake, just like everything else about them. There’s a new story on TMZ that Kim has to pay Kris H. if she wants to keep her $2 million engagement ring, as per the terms of their prenup. Of course Kim isn’t going to pay for half the ring, she bought it for herself two years ago.

Over the weekend Kim flew to Minnesota to seek “counseling” with her estranged “husband,” with the pastor who married the two of them. Kris H. has been holed up in his hometown during the NBA lockout and apart from issuing a statement that he was “committed” to Kim and “devastated” about the divorce filing (while he’s been partying with strippers) he hasn’t said anything further. Now TMZ is reporting that Kim is “conflicted” about the divorce. She was photographed at the airport in LA and again outside of Kris’ house. Of course she was. Details of their supposed four hour meeting with a counselor were leaked to TMZ, which reports that a reconciliation is “up in the air.”

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries threw a Hail Mary Sunday … to see if they could save their marriage — and after a four-hour meeting with their pastor, sources close to the couple tell TMZ a reconciliation is “up in the air.”

According to our sources, the meeting with Pastor Joel Johnson went well as they talked through lots of issues. We’re told the two expressed respect and love for each other … but both acknowledged a lot is wrong with their relationship.

Our sources say Kris was “ecstatic” Kim made the trip to Minnesota and he truly thinks he can win her back.

As for Kim …. she’s unsure if she even wants to give it another go … but for now, she’s willing to keep talking.

[From TMZ]

I doubt the whole breakup was staged for publicity, but the wedding and this “reconciliation” surely were. So it’s hard to figure out what’s “real” with these people. Kim realizes that she failed to play the breakup for sympathy, and that she came across like the petty, greedy self-obsessed plastic surgery victim that she is. So now she’s trying to act like she’s willing to reconcile with Kris, and like she put a smidgen of effort into her relationship instead of listening to her narcissistic “intuition.” There’s no reconciliation happening for her. This woman is incapable of having a reciprocal relationship at all.

Update: Here’s the SNL Kardashian spoof that so many of you were talking about. It’s hysterical!

Kim is shown at the airport on Saturday with her pillow. She’s also shown on Friday coming into LA from Australia with Khloe and Lamar. Credit: Fame and Pacific Coast News.