Piers
Morgan promised he would come after Kim K and he has delivered. In an
article titled "You've still got a great body, Kim but if you’re
really so successful, so secure and so rich why do you still feel the
need to pose nude at 35?", the revered editor and former TV host, told
some hard truths to the most famous of the Kardashian Klans. Read what
he wrote after the cut...
‘My advice
to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star,’
observed Mae West, ‘is once you’re boned, what’s left to create the
illusion? Let ‘em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of
me.’
I
thought of this when Kim Kardashian posted another internet-breaking
nude selfie last night, showing off her voluptuous torso just three
months after giving birth to her second child.
‘When you’re like, I have nothing to wear. LOL,’ she captioned the photo.
I chuckled, as I often do at Kim’s antics.
She’s
a smart cookie who, like her rapper husband Kanye West, knows exactly
how to set the world agog with apoplexy with a single tweet.
Of course, nudity has been a key part of her brand ever since she first burst into public consciousness via a leaked sex tape.
Since
then, Kim’s ruthlessly exploited every crevice of her body in a way so
spectacularly successful that it’s turned her into a multi-millionaire.
Until
recently, I’ve had no problem with this. She works hard, has a keen eye
for fashion and beauty lines, and has proven herself to be a skilled
self-publicising marketer.
When
she first broke the internet in 2014 by baring her champagne-dangling
derriere for PAPER magazine, I defended her amid the inevitable
‘slut-shaming’ onslaught which instantly erupted.
I wrote
then: ‘Kim doesn’t take drugs, get drunk, fall out of clubs, cheat on
her man, or do any of the other insanely louche things that stars with
far greater ‘talent’ often do. She’s good to her fans, and is by all
accounts a good, loving daughter, sister, wife and now mom herself.’
My
conclusion read: ‘Kim Kardashian-West’s laughing all the way to the
bank. And all you lazy, snide, snobbish, patronising and hypocritical
critics can go kiss her a*s – there’s plenty of room.’
But that was then.
After
she tweeted her latest nude picture last night, I replied by saying: ‘I
know the old man’s $50 million in debt, Kim (a jokey reference to
Kanye’s preposterous recent claims of financial hardship) ‘but this is
absurd. Want me to buy you some clothes?’
She wasn’t amused.
‘Hey
@PiersMorgan,’ she retorted, ‘never offer to buy a married woman
clothes. That’s on some Ashley Madison type s**t. #forresearch’.
I got off lightly.
Minutes
later she ripped into Oscar-winner Bette Midler, who had also mocked
her photo by saying: ‘Kim Kardashian tweeted a nude selfie today. If Kim
wants to see a part of her we’ve never seen, she’s gonna have to
swallow the camera.’
‘Hey @BetteMidler,’ snapped Kim, ‘I know it’s past your bedtime but if you’re still up and reading this send nudes.’
Gosh!!!mother of two???
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