Odds Aren't Good for Khloe and Lamar

By PopEater Staff Posted Sep 30th 2009 09:10AM

Think twice before you pick up a Cuisinart or monogrammed towel set to send to Khloe Kardashian and her new hubby L.A. Laker Lamar Odom in celebration of their quickie Sunday evening nuptials. According to the very scientific mathematics of reality television statistics, this marriage may have a shelf life shorter than one of Kim Kardashian's skirts.

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Forget about the fact that Khloe and Lamar have known each other for about a month. Who cares that he is on the road for six months out of the year. Laugh off all the baggage each of them is bringing to this union (He has two kids from a previous relationship and she is a Kardashian).

The reason that Khloe and Lamar won't be sitting on that metaphorical front porch swing well into their golden years is because marriages that play out on reality television simply don't work out. We'd love to say the opposite, but we're just going on history here.

"Most reality television marriages are formed under false conditions with six-week production schedules and are usually based solely on immediate lust." said Life & Style Executive Editor Jared Shapiro. "Once the couple gets home the REAL reality sets in. Plus, once you are off the show, people stop caring about you. Reality stars often have a really hard time dealing with the loss of fame."

Danger sign number one is that Khloe and Lamar have already let the whirlwind of reality romance take precedence over their relationship. The pair reportedly rushed to the altar in order to stay on the demanding shooting schedule for E!'s 'Keeping up With the Kardashian's' where the wedding will air at a later date -- most likely to astronomical ratings.

"The biggest ratings grabbers are babies, weddings and deaths. This year alone we've seen Kourtney get pregnant, Khloe tie the knot and the entire Kardashian clan front and center -- with camera crew -- for Michael Jackson's funeral," dished Jarett Wieselman, senior entertainment writer for the New York Post's PopWrap. "When you take into account the fact that Khloe and Lamar have only been dating for a month, I wouldn't be surprised if Khloe's show lasts longer than her marriage!"

Let's take a look at the track record of marriages that have played out in front of the cameras starting with television's most famous newlyweds, Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson. After three years of marriage mostly spent in front of MTV cameras, the pair parted ways. Soon after, 'Newlywed' spin-offs ran amok with Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro in 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave' and Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler in 'Meet the Barkers.' Both marriages self-destructed soon after the shows finished airing.

But long-term unions run the risk of falling apart once the cameras start rolling as well. Take a look at Jon and Kate Gosselin, who after nearly a decade of marriage and eight kids, split up due to the pressures of reality television. Or Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston, a couple who weathered both crack-cocaine and endless renditions of 'My Prerogative,' but finally called it quits following the Bravo show, 'Being Bobby Brown.' Even wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan couldn't fight off the reality curse, as his marriage crumbled under the lights of 'Hogan Knows Best.'

Ronnie Karam, senior editor of TVgasm.com explains that television marriages are doomed to fail for a variety of reasons, but mainly because the camera doesn't lie.

"You have to see how stupid you actually look together, which most of us can avoid ... except for the wedding pictures. All of your flaws, and worse, and all of your mate's flaws, are there for the world to see and comment on. If most people knew the crap I put up with in my relationship, they'd tell me to dump the loser and eventually I'd listen. But in private, he's my hopeless loser."

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Khloe and Lamar's Big Day

Photos of Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian's wedding day appear in OK!.

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Khloe and Lamars Big Day

Photos of Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian's wedding day appear in OK!.

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Photos of Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian's wedding day appear in OK!.

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Comments

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Thursday 01 October

By BILL

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BLACK AND WHITE DO NOT LAST LONG.

By J

I think it is nasty look who she picked for a husband I guess she was desperate. Oh well you play with dogs ya get fleas...

By Mel

Did someone really comment "arent there any white men for these Kardashians?" Seriously? Lamar Odom and Reggie Bush have huge, money-making careers. The only white guy Ive seen any of them with is that Scott guy Kourtney is with who as far as Ive seen doesnt even have a job and is in love with himself. What a joke!

By Dave

Hold on a minute. One local Boston paper states that they aren't really married as yet. That there's a problem with the prenuptial. I guess all of this is based on a TMZ report. So how in hell could they have a wedding and not be married?

By Cea

It's easy to say you're married all you need is an actor performing the nuptials and you're married and still not married.

By ray

These sisters are the biggest tramps on the planet & this this moron who married her doesn't have enough brains to come in from the rain.

By Myric6

IS IT REALLY A MARRIAGE??? Why do I keep hearing reports that its not official, legal? Maybe there's something in CA that they're married but it won't be filed until the pre-nup is filed... I don't know. I heard he's tired of questions about his wedding? How STUPID is this guy? What did they expect? Poor whiner, "no one's interested in my career...." NOT YET IDIOT! Like this fame whore didn't know what he was getting into !

By Robert

You guys are being WAY too hard on Lamar. It isn't his fault if he's mentally challenged enough to marry Khloe.

By Mrs.C

Those three girls are gorgeous!!! Khloe is definitely the most beautiful of the three!!! Ya'll are just hating!!

By sequin22

Hollywood people can't stay married for more than 6 months- they are like filthy dogs in heat who cannot control themselves.

By ajm

race, race, race. let them live their lives and make their own decisions. My husband and I have been married 40 years after two weeks of knowing each other. I knew my first husband 4 years and that marriage only lasted 11 years.

By Vernie

Well let me count the ways...lol , Lamar be lucky to be selling hot dogs outta dirty water wiener wagon at Cleveland Browns games if he weren't a hoopster in L.A. never the less good luck to the strikingly handsome couple.

By Alex King

I admit their marriage was kind of quick,but people it's 2009 let go of the racial bullcrap. You think because he is a black man their marriage won't last.That's crazy and for the two people wrote their comments in this morning ya'll need to get a life.

By Grandma Linda

I really wish Bobby and Whitney could have found peace, balance and sobriety together. One thing always caught my eye in their relationship .. therw was laughter. Don't see much of that in today's couples.

By Frank

NO ONE CARES. NO ONE CARES. STOP PRINTING THIS JUNK.

By carol

This won't last long at all. She loves those chocolate men.

By Mike

With all his money, he picks her? I could have done better than that at any local bar, at 3AM, and after having 3 six packs.

By Lynn

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She is fugly and he is black. It don't need to work.

By protestantbeauty

Man -the good ole' days of lynching a white woman for whoring it with a black man. She and fat ass sister should be ashamed of their actions!

By Trish