Cast your mind back to April 2021 and you might remember Khloe Kardashian’s bid to have an unedited bikini picture of herself'scrubbed from the internet’.
The offending photograph, showing Khloe looking toned and tanned in a leopard print bikini, was apparently mistakenly uploaded online by an assistant,before her team worked to have it removed from the internet. Needless to say, the ‘damage’ had already been done and the photo was seen around the world.
Afterward, Khloe issued a lengthy statement defending her right to want to control the image of her body she sees fit for public consumption.
So it may come as a surprise to see that Khloe’s recently uploaded a series of photos of herself which appear not have been subject to the same scrupulous editing process we’re used to seeing on her grid.
In the eight similarly posed pictures, Khloe stands side on to the camera showing off her impressive waist-to-bum-to-thigh ratio, with just a hint of cellulite on show. Commenters have jumped on the ‘unedited’ theme and run with it, praising Khloe for the ‘natural’ photo.
‘I love that this is raw and shows that she’s got some texture and cellulite!’ said one. ‘It’s always refreshing when Celebs don’t over edit their photos. MORE of this.’
Another wrote, ‘Yas! A Kardashian with cellulite! I love this more natural version of you Koko!’
It’s true that we’re used to seeing all the Kardashians in flawless, poreless shiny HD, and it’s great to see Khloe’s slight break from this tradition by not airbrushing her legs to oblivion, but it seems a tad far fetched to set the bar for ‘the natural look’ quite this high.
Obviously, Khloe and her sisters are unattainably beautiful by normal standards, even without the ‘good filter, good lighting and an edit here and there’ we her saw her sans in the unedited bikini photo. It’s not just the digital retouches that make the Kardashians’ bodies so aspirational for many, but also their trainers, their home gyms, their chefs and beauty therapists.
Still, though, it’s a start; hopefully her fans’ positive response will be the validation Khloe needs to start showing a little more of the ‘real’ her.