Kim Kardashian has been on a serious weight loss kick all year. She’s dropped a significant amount of weight – by her own account, she’s lost 20 pounds this year, and she’s done it by cutting back on sugar and changing up her workouts and lifting more heavy weights. I’ve said before that… I actually think Kim’s weight loss doesn’t look that great on her. So many times, women reach their “goal weight” and they end up looking deflated and unhappy. That’s Kim – in my opinion, she looks better when her face is a bit fuller and softer.

Anyway, I’m in the minority on that one. Everyone praises Kim for losing so much weight this year. Over the summer, Kim posted some Snapchats where her sisters were “complimenting” her by telling her she looked “anorexic.” She was so happy with that “compliment.” Several people were like “slow your roll, that’s not a compliment, stop pushing pro-ana bulls–t.” Well, months later, Kim is finally admitting that she was wrong. She was being interviewed on the Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham podcast and Graham brought up the pro-ana crap. This is what Kim said:

“I honestly, looking back in having said that, I 100 percent completely understand where people would be coming from that felt that way. So my intention is never to offend anyone and I really, you know, apologize if I offended anyone, because an eating disorder is- I know people that have serious eating disorders that have been in and out of the hospital for 15 years—close people. So I’ve like, been through- I have experienced it enough to have, like, known better.”

“You know, sometimes when you’re- you know I was, like, with my sisters and we were laughing and joking and it’s loud and you are- you know, I dunno, I guess, sometimes you can get, like, carried away and just, it was insensitive, you know, and it definitely wasn’t my intention though. And I think, especially my fans and everyone that was watching was supportive, like, ‘OK, look, like, maybe you guys shouldn’t have said that but I know what you were saying.'”

Kim said she had at that point spent a year working out six days a week with a bodybuilder.

“I lost 20 pounds and it hasn’t been easy. My mom even, maybe a month ago, pulled me aside in the bathroom at a meeting once and was like, ‘I need to talk to you,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my God, what?’ And she pulls me aside and was like, ‘What are you doing?’ She’s like, ‘What is going on?’ Like, ‘How are you losing this weight? Are you OK?'” Kim said. “You know, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, like this is so crazy! Like, don’t you see me working out like every single day? I changed how I eat, I work out.'”

[From E! News]

There were several problems all at once with the Snapchats that went viral, and I actually understand what Kim is saying about how she was just joking around with her sisters. But the second she put that sh-t on Snapchat, it was for public consumption and yes, she should have known better. It’s fine if people – or regular celebrities/reality stars – make inappropriate jokes around friends and family. I’ve made “bad/inappropriate” jokes amongst friends and family too, jokes that rightly result in people calling me out for tons of terrible things. But I try not to put that crap out there for public consumption. Kim really was putting herself out there like she was bragging publicly about being anorexic. And she does know better. While her apology doesn’t really change anything, I’m glad she at least realizes that she was wrong.

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