Kim Kardashian and her prized posterior just made their most shocking move yet
FOR the first time, Kim Kardashian has shown her bum unfiltered and unairbrushed. And the world can’t get enough.
JUST when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet, Kim Kardashian’s butt has turned up to break it again.
But this time Kim (and her prized posterior) has made her most shocking move yet ... by looking like a real woman.
You might have assumed there was no new lens through which we could view the world’s most famous behind. Kim K has posed with her bottom dripping with champagne, fully oiled or crammed into pink latex.
She has flung her bum onto a mound of earth for Jergen Teller and wrapped it in a furkini in the snow. She’s slathered her toosh in skin-tight wet-look leggings — and that’s just for the school run.
Yet this week Kim and her bum did their most controversial shoot.
The photos - which ran in the The Sun - show Kim K on holiday with her sisters in Mexico ‘papped’ with her un-airbrushed cellulite-ridden bum on show.
You can see the photos where Kim allowed herself to be snapped looking like a normal person HERE.
There she was padding around unselfconsciously in a thong with her glorious orange-peel skin out looking as imperfect as the rest of us. I saw these snaps and wanted to cheer.
You can’t underestimate how big a deal it is for bikini-idol Kim to admit her biggest ass-et is flawed. It was brave of her to reveal her peachy butt has the same dimpled texture most normal bums do.
After all, Kimmy’s perky butt is a large part of her appeal. Her bum is her brand.
At her Kimoji boutique she capitalises on it, selling such bum-orabilia as an “Ass Tray” featuring her thonged derrière and a butt-shaped pool float.
So it’s truly a statement for such a bootylicious idol to parade around letting it all hang out.
And let’s be clear — these snaps are no accident. Kim is not someone who leaves her image to chance.
This is a woman made famous by a sex tape with her own (best-selling) book of selfies. A woman who works tirelessly on her looks — a devotee of Vampire Facials who loves crash diets.
So the fact she has chosen to show off her cellulite says something important.
It says she’s said ‘f*** it’ to perfection.
I think this is a move that’s typically clever of Kim — as she’s always quick to understand a trend. She knows we’re getting sick of perfect celebs.
She’s seen the backlash against airbrushing, as she understood our frustration with size 0.
She knows embracing her flaws will endear her to us. And it has.
She knows that pictures of her dimpled bikini bum is the glorious dose of reality every woman wants.
We’re bored of stage-managed Instagram shots and airbrushed ads.
Perfect has become so ubiquitous, now we crave reality.
We want to see stretch marks and tummies ... and bums that look like they’ve got up from sitting on Lego blocks (which, given Kim is a mum of two, may be the real explanation for her skin).
We want to celebrate cellulite and embrace our flaws, or at least admit that’s what real life is.
In a way what’s most shocking about these pictures is what they tell us about ourselves.
They suggest we’re so used to seeing women’s hyper-real over-airbrushed bodies that we find normal outrageous. That feels sad. And Kim has done us a service in highlighting that.
Mind you, there is another possible explanation.
Given what a canny operator Kim is there’s always a chance this is just the prelude to when her new anti-cellulite cream drops.
This article originally appeared on The Sun.
