Kim Kardashian West thought her career was ''over'' after she divorced Kris Humphries.

The 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' star - whose marriage to the 30-year-old basketball player lasted only 72 days - says she told her family to ''save their money''.

She said: ''At the time when I was going through the divorce I did say to everyone, 'You guys I think our careers are over. I hope you've saved your money. And now we'll just continue to do our clothing stores and continue to do what we started off doing before the show. I totally thought it was over.''

In hindsight, the 34-year-old television personality has admitted she was just being ''paranoid'' but has insisted having time off helped her to cope.

She added to Drum magazine: ''I was being very paranoid. I just took some time off and the time was really good for me. I cancelled everything.

''I had a book tour, I had a fragrance launch, I had everything that you could possibly imagine and I just cancelled it all and I took time for me.''