An article on Oct. 12 on E! Online talks about Kim Kardashian posing for W magazine, completely nude with only strategically placed textboxes.
While it isn’t surprising that she is posing nude yet again, there was a comment in the article that took me slightly by surprise.
E! quoted Kardashian from the W magazine article saying, “I used to think, I have to be this or that or skinny, and now, because of the show, everyone is embracing just me, which has given me such a confidence.”
This comment raised several flags for me.
First, if she was experiencing such a lack of confidence before, her actions did not give that impression. It seems to me like someone who was not confident with his or her figure would not have posed nude in the past as well.
Kardashian was on the cover of Playboy in 2007, along with a 10-page spread inside. She was also nude on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar in April of this year.
For someone feeling pressure from the media to be thin and lacking confidence in her body, she sure did not seem to have a problem flaunting it wherever she could.
The image that she portrays to the public through these photos does not match with how she felt about herself, according to the quote.
In the article that accompanied her Harper's Bazaar photo shoot Kardashian said, “I’m sorry I did Playboy. I was uncomfortable.”
I cannot help but wonder, if you regretted it the first time, what would possess you to do it again?
The next issue that I have with this quote is how contradictory it seems when compared with her endorsement of Quick Trim.
Quick Trim is a diet pill that was released in 2009 and is endorsed by Kardashian and her sister Khloe.
If she were really happy with her curves and confident, as she states, she would not be supporting a product that would supposedly help her to get rid of them.
Promoting this product sends the message to people that that they need to be thinner. This is an issue that she stated she felt before and has now moved past, but it would seem as though she has not.
She is simply perpetuating the problem of body image that many young girls face today, and she herself has been a victim of, by supporting an easy solution, Quick Trim.
If Kardashian wants to continue to pose nude for magazines she needs to ensure in the future that these images remain consistent with her statements and other endeavors.
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