Kim handles marriage split by flogging handbags

A grim Kim Kardashian said intuition led her to end her 72-day marriage, insisting in her latest interview that there was no "right or wrong" way to handle the situation.

The hosts of Australia's Sunrise programme grilled the 31-year-old reality TV star on how hard she worked to save her brief marriage to pro basketball player Kris Humphries, asking whether she had sought counselling before filing for divorce.

She said: "I think when you know so deep in your heart that you just have to listen to your intuition, and follow your heart. There's no right or wrong thing to do." Kardashian, who is in Australia with her sister Khloe to promote a line of handbags, has faced withering criticism since she filed for divorce from Humphries on Monday after just 10 weeks of marriage. Her lavish, black-tie wedding was featured in a two-part, four-hour special on the American entertainment network E!, and critics have called it a greedy, moneymaking publicity stunt that garnered her millions of dollars. E! executives denied they orchestrated the nuptials.

"I think what really just, I think, upsets me most is that there has been from the start so many rumours of money and dollar signs ... and so much of it not being true," Kardashian said.

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