A very toned-down Kim Kardashian covers the Fall issue of New York Magazine.

Kardashian ditched her glammed-up look for the cover and appeared  to latch onto the girl-next-door look instead. The reality star was photographed by Pari Dukovic  for the feature. Read on to view her thought on success, her beau Kanye and why she stays away from gossip-related material.

On her decision to stay away from gossip:
“I used to be so involved with what’s going on around, what’s up with this person. I just really truly feel so much more calm now, and I just don’t care.”

On the advantages of dating a fashion-forward man like Kanye West:
“If I have a design meeting, or he has one, we come back and talk about how our meetings went. It’s cool, ’cause you can definitely get more in-depth with someone who actually knows what you’re talking about … So that’s been a fun similarity we have. I think it’s essential to have similarities. When this whole life is done, and it’s just the two of us sitting somewhere when we’re 80, you want to have things to talk about that you have in common. I think that’s something maybe I didn’t value as highly as a quality I cared about in someone.”

On her definition of success:
“I don’t really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that. I think my goals are more just expanding my line, and having my line be really successful. That’s the ultimate goal, I think, for me. I don’t say, ‘Oh, I want to be on this magazine or I want to do this.’ It’s all fun. And I love, definitely, turning into a different character. I think each shoot has a different personality.”