When Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered on E! in 2007, the Kardashian-Jenner family members were not household names like they are today. Kim Kardashian had her sex tape, her father Robert was part of O.J. Simpson’s legal team, and Caitlyn Jenner was a well-known Olympian, but otherwise they were living fairly private lives. Khloé Kardashian reflected on those early days, and I love the blunt advice they were given ahead of that first season.These days Khloé Kardashian has gone from reality TV star to reality TV producer, as The Girls: A Khloé Kardashian Project premieres on the 2026 TV schedule. After nearly 20 years of living life in front of the cameras, one would think Khloé is more than qualified to lead her friends to a successful venture. However, as she recalled the advice her family got back in 2007, having low expectations might have been what worked to their advantage. She told THR:I’ll be honest with you: I loved how green I was. In hindsight, I loved that we were told, ‘You guys might not get a second season, so go big or go home. This probably won’t go anywhere.’ Kourtney and I specifically did not think about it. We just were like, ‘Fuck it, we’re gonna film whatever we want to do.’I can definitely see how having any kind of expectations might have killed authenticity when it came to having cameras following the family around, so it probably helped that they were advised to leave it all on the field and play as if there were no tomorrow. (It probably also didn’t hurt that Kris Jenner apparently misled them when convincing Khloé and Kourtney to agree to filming.)Keeping Up with the Kardashians was lightning in a bottle, with all the sisters’ different personalities launching the family into a multi-billion-dollar empire. But it was the way they didn’t necessarily expect anything to come from it that allowed them to be so open.(Image credit: Hulu)Khloé and Kourtney definitely gave off major DGAF vibes in those early seasons. The way they pushed all of Kim’s buttons just seemed so real, and that connected with viewers. Khloé continued:We were just goofs. We weren’t overthinking. We never thought we were gonna be famous or be a star — nothing like that. And that’s what made everything work the way it did because you could smell that stuff. You know when someone’s putting on. You know when someone’s contrived. We were just who we were. I was 22 years old. And to be green, naive and not overthink anything. What a blessing.To that end, Khloé Kardashian said she didn’t overprepare her friends to be on The Girls. She only encouraged them to be as open and transparent as possible, which she said they did to varying degrees.Only time will tell if The Girls will bring enough drama to launch a new series in the Kardashian oeuvre. All six episodes can be streamed with a Hulu subscription, along with every episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and The Kardashians, whose Season 8 is premiering in October.