Kim Kardashian has been a topic of discussion for years now, and not in a good way. The reality star has got people talking about her, and the more people talk, the more this celebrity would be slapped on a noted magazine cover right?

Well, not everyone agrees. Kim Kardashian is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood now, thanks to her mistakes, wrong choices, and everything in between. Yet, she's somehow earned a spot on some of the world's most prestigious magazine covers; but not without backlash.

Anna Wintour even had to release a statement when the Kimye cover was revealed on the Internet. Wintour explained, "As for the cover, my opinion is that it is both charming and touching, and it was, I should add, entirely our idea to do it; you may have read that Kanye begged me to put his fiancee on Vogue's cover. He did nothing of the sort."

When Stefano Tonchi, editor-in-chief of W magazine put Kim on the cover for his November 2010 issue, he said:

We thought that Kim provided a vehicle to critically approach popular culture and how reality TV was transforming the business of making TV shows, altering the cultural landscape in America, and subsequently in the world at large. Our Editor-at-Large Lynn Hirschberg has been working on this subject for a long time, she was fascinated with the success of Kim ... It is still one of our most successful covers at the newsstand and it has been a gift that keeps giving on our website.

Editor-in-chief Vanessa Bellugeon of French fashion magazine L'Officiel, too, explained why Kim and Kanye appeared on the Spring 2013 cover of L'Officiel Hommes (a men's magazine adapted from L'Officiel):

Kim and Kanye are pop icons, in the sense that Andy Warhol meant it: they are part of our contemporary pop culture, embracing high-end fashion, music, mainstream popularity and cutting edge creativity. This approach is precisely at the core of L'Officiel de la Mode et de la Couture's DNA.

So Kim K is an icon of our time, just that magazines have to try really hard to sell it? But if there's one thing we can agree on, it's that Kim actually looks gorgeous in the images. Our favorites are the ones of her in the least makeup. Check out her most major covers she's done over the years: