United Kingdom, Jan. 23 -- Kim Kardashian once "scammed" the paparazzi by pretending to visit Britney Spears in a ploy to get her picture taken.

The Kardashians star has opened up about the lengths she went to boost her profile at the start of her career and she revealed she fooled photographers who were waiting outside a hotel in New York with the help of her long-time pal Jonathan Cheban.

Kim explained the ruse during an appearance on her sister Khloe Kardashian's Khloe In Wonderland podcast, saying: "It [being famous] was all I wanted, I lived for it ...

"We were at a restaurant and we heard these people ... like: 'Oh Britney Spears is staying at this hotel in New York'.

"So this person at dinner had this crazy Phantom Rolls Royce....