Even for Kim Kardashian, this is…a lot. A day after she denied that she’d airbrushed her bellybutton out of a Skims ad, the reality star is explaining why she did Photoshop another picture. And honestly, I’m speechless.
Way back in December, Kardashian posted pictures of her daughter Chicago West and her niece True Thompson having fun at Disneyland, and TikTokers were quick to call out the fact that there was something off about True in the pictures. Her face just did not look like the rest of the photo, they insisted. They further deduced via outfit tracking that it was actually Kylie’s daughter, Stormi Webster, at the Happiest Place on Earth—not True.
But the family stayed silent about it until mid-April, when Khloé, True’s mom, got caught in a lie about bringing True to Disneyland for the “first time.” Even though the edited pictures were posted to Kim’s account, Khloé took the hit, writing on Twitter, “Welllppp I fucked this one up,” but offering zero reasoning for the seemingly random swap.
Two weeks later, Kim has offered an explanation, and I’m sorry but this is so weird. In a series of Instagram Stories, Kardashian first put to rest the rumor that she had adjusted her boyfriend Pete Davidson’s jawline (she didn’t), and then recounted how and why she swapped one niece for another, admitting that it needed “serious explaining.”
Simply put, the answer is: aesthetic.
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“You know I am all about my aesthetic! And my IG grid is pink and blue lately. Isn’t it so cute and well planned out!” she wrote like this is a normal regular thing.
“The original pics were Stormi! However I asked [Kylie] if I could post them and she said she wasn’t really feeling posting at the moment and so I respect that! But I wasn’t going to mess up my IG feed. Chi was wearing pink and it matched perfectly,” she continued, offering zero context for why skipping a post would “mess up” her feed, why she couldn’t just crop the picture to only Chicago, whether or not Khloé was “feeling posting,” or if she considered iffy Photoshop a blight on her precious grid.
