Kim Kardashian's ass broke the way girls see themselves

Kim Kardashian's ass broke the way girls see themselves



It's the 'oh my god' effect of this single picture of Kim Kardashian that made me realize: Kim's backside has got problems.

It is not that it is massive.

I know plenty of men and a legion of women who see a big bottom as aspirational. It's why squats are so popular. And why women like me who look like a tampon with nobs on, are not.

Bursting out of clothing with your boobs or your bottom is refreshingly all the rage. And even I can see how attractive it is to have ones lady-bits look so lush and pleasingly fecund.



KK appears as an oasis of moist compared to my desert of rusty brown.

But the 'put it away, dear, you are scaring the children' effect of KK's rear is more to do with the shape of the thing, than the size

Whatever she has or hasn't done to it, the KK bottom is looking a bit like when I try to make my own bread.

I know others have gushed about how marvellous it is she has not been retouched, and what a powerful example to women she sets about being proud of yourself.

And I would agree. Refusing to be made perfect in post-production is powerful.

But before everyone gets too carried away showering praise on Kim saying women would 'embrace her honesty' and 'cellulite is to be celebrated', I would ask what exactly is honest about Kim?



If you have transformed yourself beyond all recognition from your early self to this creature - new nose, new boobs, new chin, new lips - exactly what bits of this woman are we embracing?

Tina Fey puts it best. "All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful.

Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll’s boobs.

The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

I am reminded of the British model Katie Price outside the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2016 with false hair, false lashes, plastic nose, fake lips and plastic boobs advising contestants to 'just be yourself'.

We live in an age where we are supposed to celebrate bodies in all their different shapes and sizes, and any suggestion otherwise leads to mass hysteria and cries of body shaming.

But is it not a shame in itself to deform your body quite to this extent? To project the illusion of perfection to young people after Photoshop, but then to be confronted with a reality that looks completely different. Is that honest? Or horribly deceiving?

Is it brave to recreate your self so you have the eyes of a startled deer, the nose of a small rodent or the lips of a puffer fish?

Should we celebrate when you achieve massive mammaries or an ass shelf complete with ornaments?

And if your new body looks dangerously misshapen and borderline deformed when you can pay for the very best plastic surgeon on the market, shouldn't we all be a little bit alarmed for those finding cheaper surgery down dodgy streets?

And concerned for the shape Kim Kardashian has allowed herself to be made into - to fulfill some modern ideal of beauty?



Concerned for what is going to happen when gravity and age have their way and that all heads south. I wonder what the solution might be, and a picture of industrial scaffolding flashes across my mind.

I wonder if at 50, KK is going to end up lugging her backside around the back of her knees, a self-inflicted bustle - like the morbidly obese have to endure a fat apron overhanging their front?

I hope not.

I hope also that a whole generation of young fans of the Kardashians are not imagining that to achieve success and fame you need to distort yourself to quite such proportions.

I can accept not many people want to look like me. I happen to find it quite handy. I accept I look about as fertile as Fukushima.

But I hope young women can see that if you are going to celebrate your body shape, it should be the body you were born with.

Looking at the state of KK now, I worry for the young women who saw the iconic pictures of her bottom covered in oil, and wanted to be just like her.

I fear her ass may not just have broken the internet, but a whole generation of young girls too.