Khloe Kardashian covers the new issue of Cosmo Body. The photoshoot happened before Khloe went blonde (or blonder than she is here). I don’t have much to say about the cover, but you can see the rest of the NSFW-ish shoot here. It’s always a bad idea to get on all fours with your Pinocchio Butt in the air in front of a camera. Someone should needlepoint that on a pillow. As for the interview, Khloe talks about body image, plastic surgery, working out and Lamar drama. Some highlights:
Body image in the public eye: “On my Instagram page people comment saying ‘I liked you better when you were bigger’ and I think, ‘Thank God I don’t live my life for other people because I’d be in a constant tug of war.’”
She never felt fat: “I have never felt ‘fat’ I just didn’t realize how unhealthy I was until I look back at pictures. In the moment I felt so beautiful and I remember walking down red carpets with my make-up done in a little sparkly dress and I thought I was so cute. I had all this confidence.”
She started going to the gym to deal with her Lamar issues: “I decided to channel my energy into working out…if I went out with my girlfriends I would be hounded by paparazzi and made to feel more humiliated. The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.”
On plastic surgery: “If you want to do a tweak, I’m all for it, but you have to love yourself first because no surgery is going to change your heart. It would have been such an easy solution to get liposuction or whatever, but you have to be healthy to maintain that. I’ve always felt like ‘Wouldn’t it be great to accomplish that on your own?’”
I think the knives would be out for her no matter what she says about plastic surgery. And I respect her more for not issuing a flat-out denial, because she would looks SO stupid if she was all, “OMG, my lips and my Pinocchio Butt are all natural, you guys.” No one would believe her. So, Khloe gets tweaked. She got a big fake butt and big lips out of nowhere. Maybe some nose work too. But I don’t think she did lipo. Now, Kim on the other hand? I think Kim has gotten and continues to get lipo and “maintenance” stuff.
Here are some photos of Khloe at the gym yesterday. Pinocchio Butt!!!!!!!!! It looks even bigger than before. I just don’t understand… anything. I don’t “get” the Pinocchio Butt.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, cover courtesy of Cosmo.
I agree with her about plastic surgery. Insecurities are hard. If a new nose or bigger breasts will make someone more comfortable with themselves, why not?
But it’s quite contradicting to say ‘you must love yourself first’ then get the surgery, or does she mean you should not do it for anyone else.
@Loopy that’s how I interpreted it. I think she means you have to do it because you love yourself and you know it’s something you want (like “hey, I’m awesome, and I deserve breasts that are a little bigger than the ones I have now”) , rather than doing it due to pressure from outside sources like society, the media, a crazy ex who wants to keep all your frozen embryos, etc.
My feelings exactly.
“doing it due to pressure from outside sources like society, the media, a crazy ex…”
I’d like to add that surgically changing ones body is often the result of having internalized the standards of society, the media and/or a crazy ex. Ideally, a true love of self allows one to feel adequate and accepting of ones appearance regardless of our culture’s preferences.
Oops- I meant to include accepting ones appearance regardless of our culture’s preferences. a man’s taste, etc….really, any pressure a person may feel.
I’m not sure what you meant by a woman “deserving” larger breasts, especially if she feels she’s awesome. 🙂
If she wasn’t such a big influence on young Kylie, i’d be a big cheerleader for her statement.
Nope. I don’t buy it. People don’t pay thousands of dollars and risk their lives/health to go under the knife without societal influence. They just don’t.
I hate when women act like they’re sticking bags of plastic into their bodies to please *only* themselves, and not because they want to look good for other people as per society’s standards.
Spare me.
@Sea Dragon, great point. I think there’s a balance. I do think it’s possible to love yourself and still want to enhance your appearance a little bit, but all things in moderation, as they say. It’s like makeup, I think. I wear makeup to enhance the features I already have– I like to make my eyes pop and highlight my cheekbones a little. But I don’t want to contour myself an entirely new face. So with plastic surgery, if someone wants to smooth a bump in the nose or make themselves a little bustier, alrighty then. It’s when you start turning yourself into an entirely new and unrecognizable person that it speaks to a deeper issue, IMO. But then again, I am neither judge nor jury, so it’s not up to me to say where the line is drawn as to what is and is not acceptable for plastic surgery. Just speaking to what I feel.
ETA: didn’t see your edit until just now. That was my interpretation of Khloe’s “get plastic surgery because you love yourself” statement. I meant that I think it’s totally possible for a woman to say to herself, “hey, I just want bigger breasts because I want them. And if that’s what I want, I deserve it, because I am awesome.” 😊
So you think dabbing some mascara on your eyelashes is akin to undergoing surgery? The boob equivalent to make-up is a push up bra, NOT slicing your body open and sticking synthetic bags inside.
In my opinion, people who are truly happy and comfortable with themselves don’t undergo elective plastic surgery. Make-up can be fun and artistic, and most importantly it is removable and risk-free. Surgery is not remotely comparable.
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Def. HODOR.
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mimif what did I miss today??
I was kept captive at work with no phone or laptop. Please tell me you have some new crazy theories that I’m dying to hear about!
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*see what I did there? spoiler in disguise 😀
Paola, I have seen no new theories today, but I haven’t been on every post. We must discuss how to double legitimize Jon Snow (1. Who are parents? 2. Parents were married). I can’t take it!!!
I stand by the theory that Jon Snow is son of Rhaegar and Lyanna.
It’s the only thing that makes sense to me.
Were they married?
I don’t think so.
FREAKING ANNOYING! PLEASE STOP!
Can you PRETTY PLEASE email these amongst yourselves? I really don’t want to know, and there’s NO reason to post this stuff here — e’en with “SPOILER” (which actually draws my eye more).
THANK YOU MUCHO!
*grabs needle and pillow*
Her family is a walking billboard to plastic surgery.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Truer words haven’t never been written.
God every time I see a photo of these women from the front I nod vaguely and am unimpressed but from the back they’re a freaking train wreck!
The Kardashian women better start popularizing the hunchback, because that’s what they’ll all be doing in a few more years. Carrying a mishapen dump truck behind you can’t possibly be good for your back.
Tweak??? Bytch, you got a whole new body!
Bytch has had her whole face re-arranged a la Michael Jackson, not to even mention the body procedures.
I have to give it up for Kourtney, apart from getting a boob lift, she looks the most natural and least concerned about turning into a freak show.
Kourtney is very natural and wears little makeup most of the time unless at an event. No filler, and no overbotoxing. If she does botox, it’s minimal. And she’s the oldest girl and the least obsessed.
yes! this.
and even then she’s like gotten the implants AGES ago and always cautions people about getting more procedures and is very unconcerned with tweaks and the general kardashian train. like her overall focus in life is just being a dope mom and i kind of love that.
Khloe is the only Kardashian I can stomach.
I can’t respect any article about working out and bragging about no lipo, and seeing her in her instagram photos talking about butt exercises, when she clearly had a butt implant. If she had been completely honest in that interview, then we can talk. But it’s just a joke. I have no doubt that she gets those ultrasound treatments on her thighs, etc., that can take inches off. I’ve had two friends do it, and It is amazing if you have the money to keep it up, She will never mention all that kind of stuff either.
but i see a lot her videos on working out too and maybe it could fake for the purposes of the show or instagram but I kind of believe that she goes hard at the gym too because none of the other sisters are filmed nearly enough coming in/going out of the gym or papped or instagram about it.
I can’t stand anyone in this family, but Khloe looks pretty fit–she looks like she works out to me. Kim, on the other hand…
I really think she wears butt pads. Seems like they are big (no pun intended) in Europe. I have no clue if people actually buy/wear them but in Paris it seemed like every little boutique I went into butt pads were all over.
She kind of looks like Chyna (Joan Marie Laurer) in the face.
Wow!!! What a revelation from Khloe.
I know! She’s not opposed to plastic surgery – Just knock me over with a feather!
so i almost kind of get what she means?
i think it’s kind of the line between being heidi pratt (from the hills) who got a TON of work done with great danger and risk by doing like 10+ procedures in one day and got a series of procedures done which basically sounded like she was just carving away and chipping away at pieces of herself. Situations like that feel like a true “looks like this girl must hate herself to literally rework about 12+ parts of her body” and seems like a true body image issue that hasn’t been resolved.
The way I read Khloe’s bit on plastic surgery is like, “overall, be content and happy/love yourself. approach plastic surgery as the way you’d approach a new haircut or hair color–a tweak that makes you look better or a look that you can’t have naturally but don’t do it as a way to literally re-engineer yourself because if you don’t love yourself, surgery will never fix that.”
And I’ve honestly given up disparaging the KKs for their fake butts. I feel like at some point, fake boobs or implants faced the same stigma but people have just come to accept it now, more or less and I think the fake butt is just gonna get more and more traction. For ex- i just found out that fitness models with 6 pack abs and like 12% body fat usually get implants because they couldn’t have boobs that looked traditionally a C-D cup if they were so fit. I feel like the fake ass will become something like that; women who otherwise would have really small, nonexistent or tiny butts will opt for the procedure cos they’d like a perky cute butt. I personally don’t get it but I feel like a fake butt’s about to become real common and destigmatized in like 5 years and the kardashians will be all. “we brought the fake butt to the world!” 🙁
both she and kim have had lipo on their stomachs. You can easily tell in pictures of them in bathing suits. they have the lipo belly, which is totally flat, but not toned/muscular. the fat has just been sucked out so it’s flat.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’ve realized I don’t really have problem with her (or anyone else for that matter) getting a new butt or lips or whatever, nevermind the size of them. What I might have a problem with is people flat-out lying about these procedures (which in my opinion is not the same as not wanting to talk about them).
@Kaiser Thank you so much. Now all I can see is Pinocchio naked, face-down ass up on a bearskin rug. Which leads me to wonder which of us is sicker?! Now I have to go buy ALL the bleach for my brainwash.
You’re sick. Lol
Tweak? She’s had her whole face reconstructed.
Her nose, her lips, her ass, her lipo, all of it so obvious. Thank goodness she does not deny it like Kim does.
Well color me surprised! Not that she came clean with how much work she has had done from her nose to her butt. The lipo and the lip fillers. It is nice to know she considers this to be a tweak however. I think they all have had plastic surgery accept for Kendall and Kourtney who really did only have tweak here and tweak there.
“‘Thank God I don’t live my life for other people.’”
HAHAHAHAHA.
And honestly, a huge fake butt is not a “tweak.” That looks stupid as hell. Big butts can be cute when they’re natural. Like J-Lo’s. When they’re clown butts they look ridiculous. Not all big butts are cute. Your proportions matter, how natural it looks matter, how real it is.
Don’t think she had a nose job, it’s still really shapeless and wide.
I’m sorry, but surgery, anesthesia, and injecting toxins into your body are not just tweaks. They are risky procedures and can unpredictably kill you. That’s why normal people undergo them only when not doing so carries more risk. Khloe is just so used to the idea from her whacked out family that she doesn’t realize how extreme it is. If she really loved herself, she would have no urge to undergo such procedures and redo her body. She wouldn’t even feel the urge for butt pads, she doesn’t need them. She has the money to get her clothes adjusted to fit her body as it is, which is how everybody was clothed before the off the rack concept took hold. If she loved herself, she would ignore the idiots calling her names because she has a different body type than her tiny sisters. She also uses so much extreme makeup that she looks unrecognizable from one picture to another. That’s not an indication of loving herself, either. She has been running away from herself for a long time.
Such folks really need better interests than fiddling with their appearance 24/7. I barely find time to comb my hair. There are so many other more interesting and absorbing uses of my time. I felt the same way as a teenager. Why waste time on adjusting your appearance to match somebody else’s fantasy? My clothes are supposed to fit me, not the other way around. I’m not on stage, I don’t need makeup so people in the back row can see my expressions. If they want to see me, they can stand right in front of me. I don’t need to accentuate my features because I’m fine with how I look naturally, flaws and all. Wish Khloe could come to feel the same way about herself.
If I got cosmetic surgery it’d be just for me. I don’t give a damn what people think of my body. I have A cups and I’ll still wear an unflattering sports bra and two shirts over it. I have a massive tush and I’ll wear gray leggings, which make it look even bigger, lol. But when I change clothes and see myself in my vanity mirror sometimes I’m displeased with what I see, so I’d never get anything done for anyone else. Just for myself ;-).