Kris Jenner is remembering her late sister Karen Houghton on what would have been her 67th birthday.
Last year the momager announced ‘with the heaviest of hearts’ that her sister had passed ‘unexpectedly’ – with a death certificate stating she passed from cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac arrhythmia with Type 2 diabetes listed as a secondary underlying cause.
Jenner, 70, had a rollercoaster relationship with her younger sister, cycling between taking pubic barbs at one another to the momager lavishing her sibling with pricey gifts.
On Monday Jenner uploaded various photos with her sister as she marked her ‘heavenly birthday.’
‘Happy heavenly birthday to my beautiful sister Karen. I think about you every single day… I miss you, I love you, and I know you’re watching over all of us,’ she captioned the post.
The photos showed the siblings over the years, beginning with one taken during Jenner’s wedding day to Robert Kardashian, followed by others showing them celebrating the holidays, along with many other memories.
Kris Jenner is remembering her late sister Karen Houghton on what would have been her 66th birthday
On Monday Jenner uploaded various photos with her sister as she marked her ‘heavenly birthday’
A cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac arrhythmia. The death certificate also noted Type 2 diabetes was a secondary underlying cause, according to TMZ.
Karen was Kris’ only sister, with the pair growing up in San Diego together raised predominately by mom MJ after her divorce from the pair’s father Robert Houghton.
‘It is with the heaviest heart and deepest sadness that I share that my sister Karen passed away yesterday unexpectedly,’ Jenner wrote at the time.
‘My heart aches for my mom MJ and my niece Natalie and I pray that God guides us all through this difficult time. Karen was beautiful inside and out. She was the sweetest, kindest, the most sensitive and vulnerable and so so funny.
‘She always felt grateful and thankful for her life and treasured her family and friends and especially her beautiful daughter. She holds such a huge part of my heart and I cherish every single memory we have together.
‘Karen’s passing is a reminder that life is so short and precious and tomorrow is never promised. We must tell those we cherish how much we love them. I love you my beautiful sister.’
Kris and Karen had long endured a rollercoaster relationship.
Jenner pictured center with her sister R and their mother Mary Jo Campbell, left
Jenner, her mother, sister, and then-husband Robert Kardashian
In 2019 the pair were revealed to have reunited in an Instagram Story posted by Karen’s daughter Natalie.
The feuding sisters posed smiling with Natalie, her famous cousin Kylie Jenner, and their mother Mary Jo Campbell.
Part-time nurse Karen had become known as the black sheep of the family after she candidly opened up outside Kim Kardashian’s baby shower in 2013 and even did a jig for waiting reporters.
Despite signing an NDA for the event, Karen waxed lyrical about eating ‘marshmallow on a stick’, the rose cake at the event and the goody bag, saying Kim and Kanye West ‘gave out Rolexes’.
Karen had frequently been outspoken when her sister Kris has riled her.
In 2013 Karen claimed that Kris had spent an eye-watering $1million on plastic surgery, which stemmed from being self-conscious about her weight when she was younger.
‘She was heavy as a kid and became worried about her looks at age 15,’ Karen told In Touch magazine.
She added: ‘The whole world knows it – Kris is vain.’
Jenner has been famously open about the two breast augmentations and the facelift she has had (she recently underwent another facelift).
‘Happy heavenly birthday to my beautiful sister Karen,’ she wrote in the caption
In 2014, Karen told Radar that despite Kris and her estranged husband Bruce looking friendly there would be no reunion.
Karen said: ‘Bruce left. He walked out on her, and I think he’s not coming back. He couldn’t take the yelling anymore and stuff.’
And she said Kris was not taking the split well, adding: ‘I think she’s got issues right now because Bruce left her.
‘Kris is alone, she’s not dating. She’s not the type to run around.’
She made the comments after writing on her Facebook page in April 2014: ‘Pray for Kris Jenner she needs it…crazy. Shes as nutcase [sic].
‘She doesn’t need prayers she needs sky vodka hahaha hahaha hahaha.’ And explaining her somewhat harsh views, Karen said ‘I get p***ed off at her because she doesn’t respond to me. If you think your sister would call you back, she doesn’t. And it hurts me.’
However the part-time nurse did poke fun at herself too, in a May 2014 Facebook post, writing, ‘Be someone s crazy aunt…its fabulous! !! K [sic]’
Jenner, 70, had a rollercoaster relationship with her younger sister, cycling between taking pubic barbs at one another to the momager lavishing her sibling with pricey gifts
Karen blamed her sibling’s celebrity status and hunger for fame and fortune.
She said: ‘I don’t care how much money you have or who you are, you’re my sister. I’m not afraid of her. I can’t get to her anymore. But I guess it’s the money.
‘She’s a huge celebrity and now she has changed. I’m not saying good or bad. But I’ve seen what it can do to Kris… ever since she moved to L.A.’
Admitting she has had run-ins with Kris – mainly to do with caring for their aging mother, Karen previously told MailOnline: ‘I called up Kris yelling at her, because I was like, “You need to help your mom more and you know it.” And I think that she kind of got the message.I was screaming – I don’t even care.
The attack followed a 2013 interview during which Kris told Radar: ‘Unfortunately, my sister has been dealing with demons for years.’
In 2014, the former air stewardess told Radar, ‘when you express a loving family and family values and a close family and my mom wants to live in La Jolla, buy her a condo, Kris! I don’t understand her. I never will. It’s just her personality.’
In the star’s 2011 autobiography she said of her sister, ‘We loved each other, and we were there for each other through thick and thin, and to this day we are a part of each other’s lives.’
In 2016, Karen paid the ultimate compliment to the momager, getting an intensive face lift in order to ‘look like my beautiful sister Kris’.
