While I have sympathy and compassion for Khloe Kardashian’s body struggles, I find her statement incredibly disingenuous. Her entire family (and herself) are heavily responsible for uplifting and amplifying impossible beauty standards by editing their pics to almost CGI levels.
I have struggled with Body Dysmorphic Disorder. It’s not fun. Even if you don’t have BDD, you have probably had some level of body image issues in your life. As I said in my tweet, I am sympathetic to Khloe Kardashian’s struggle with her body image.
However, her and her entire family, I would argue, have created the “Instagram Face/Body.” They have profited from over-editing and manipulating their images.
The Kardashian’s and Jenner’s are never open about the cosmetic surgeries they’ve had nor are they even that open about how much they edit their images. This is a problem.
When you’re someone that influential, and you let people assume you got your body just by working out and “eating right,” that’s lying. I’m not against cosmetic surgery.
I’m against celebrities withholding that they’ve done it because it leads women and girls to think they too can just over exercise and under eat and they’ll look like that. Of course this entire this is much bigger than the Kardashian’s.
The media and society are also at fault. The Kardashian’s are the just the biggest perpetrators of this shit.
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