Like many of us, Kim Kardashian came of age in the ‘90s, and many of her biggest cultural references and throwbacks are from that magnificent decade. So in addition to all of Kim’s other Halloween costumes this year, she also did a “couples costume” with her BFF Jonathan “Foodgod” Cheban. They were Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. The above photo of Kim-as-Pamela was floating around on social media throughout Thursday, but it’s been deleted off the Kardashian-Jenner sites.
Honestly, if you only saw Kim-as-Pam without any context, would you have known? Now I can see it, but it didn’t immediately come to me when I was looking at the photos cold. So it was for many of Kim’s younger followers too – they didn’t get the reference, which made Kim feel old, which made her lash out. And that’s when she dropped the r-word.
Kim Kardashian West is facing backlash for making an offensive remark on Instagram. While documenting her evening celebrating Halloween at sister Kendall Jenner‘s bash Wednesday night, Kardashian West, 37, berated her fellow partygoers for not recognizing that she and her BFF Jonathan Cheban were dressed as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
“Okay guys, we are Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee,” she said in a video posted on her Instagram Story. “Nobody knows who we are here! You guys are all too f—ing young. This is so sad.” In another video, Kardashian West filmed friend (and former assistant) Stephanie Shepherd complimenting the get-up, pointing out that almost no one else had identified the costume.
“Nobody knows who I am. Yeah! R–arded,” she said.
Kardashian West deleted the video on Thursday morning and apologized.
“I try to learn from my mistakes and this is one of those times. Please know that my intention is always pure, and in this case, it was a mistake. I’m sorry,” she said in a statement to US.
How can you have pure intentions about saying the r-word on social media? It’s like the time she posted that social media video where she took it as a “compliment” that people think she has an eating disorder. If this sh-t was kept private, within the family, and not posted on social media, no one would have an issue. I mean, I’m glad she apologized, but still – she should know better and SHE DOES KNOW BETTER. Also, I still think she was just really f–king bitter that she worked so hard on her ‘90s cultural reference and no one got it. Her fans made her feel ancient. Some days, being a ‘90s girl does suck.
Photos/video courtesy of Kim Kardashian, social media.
Being a 90s girl will NEVER suck! Ah, the best decade to come of age in. The ANGST. It’s worth being almost 40 now.
This just looks like another one of Kim’s tarty getups so obviously no one would get it. Every day is halloween with these clowns.
Exactly!
I wonder why people pay attention to this clowns…
Yiza, I am righ there with you, the 90’s were fun! I was 13 when they started, and tho am over 40 now, I don’t feel like an old if someone doesn’t get my reference or my joke. Heck, just being around when Nirvana released Nevermind – playing the cassette tape over and over and over again on my stereo! – made it all worthwhile, lol.
As for KK, bah, what do we expect from her?
Yeah, I don’t think it was that the youngsters don’t know about the 90s, it was more a question of that costume not really looking like Pam. I’ve seen dudes do a better job of looking like Pam on Halloween.
Then again, we have friends who went as Wayne and Garth and the host of the party had no idea who they were dressed as. Sigh.
90’s is the best decade of them all. I’m proud to be a 90’s girl.
On a side note, that video still above makes her look more like Alaska Thunderf*c than Pamala Anderson
You’re absolutely right, she’s far closer to serving Alaska than Pam.
Ha! How lame must this pair feel?! If it’s Halloween (which is catching on down here) or any other fancy-dress do, and you have to tell people who you’re dressed as, you’re not doing it right. No one has to ask who you are or give confused looks if you pull off just a half-decent Don Corleone, Napoleon Bonaparte, Grim Reaper, Mae West or Cher. Heck, even a kid in a white sheet with eye holes is easily recognisable as a ghost. And then, because you didn’t think it through, you call others the r word…right. I’m starting to wonder if, all this time, she’s really been trying to turn herself into an alternative Pamela, with the perfect BFF to play Tommy. The only surprise is that her real husband hasn’t ranted about it. Perhaps he’s got charge of the brain cells this week.
Her. Lips. Her. Face. What. Happened?
It’s a lame costume. I wouldn’t have grasped it even if it was back in the 90’s, TBH. She should have worn the red baywatch suit and carried a life preserver, then people might have gotten who she was supposed to be. Also, another article pointed out that another Kardashian was called out for using the same word earlier this year, so it’s not like Kim just fell out of a cloud from 1991 and didn’t know that this word is not OK any more.
Exactly what I thought about! Didn’t we just have this conversation with a Kardashian? Maybe Kourtney? She does know better, she just doesn’t care.
Same. I seem to remember an other R word incident…
It was Khloe and it was really recent – in July. I came hear to say the same thing.
Yep and I’m pretty sure Kourtney was caught either on that same video as Khloé or not long before. All this tells me is that these people use the word all of the time and these apologies are as fake as their a$$es are. They suck.
@Mel M, yep, they probably use the word all the time.
I’m completely mystified by this costume. If she were dressed as Bay Watch or even tool girl, maybe, but Kim regularly wears wigs and plumps up her cleavage. What part of this says Pamela Anderson?
Didn’t get it either. She just looks unhealthy in it. I thought it was some type of ghost.
I thought the point of the costume was to show the boobs, not to be recognized.
The chance to wear a corset is irresistible to this idiot. She looks more like a character from Fraggle Rock than Pam Anderson. Really classy to lash out at everyone by call people the R word. Nothing new here, folks.
Pamela Anderson’s look was considered somewhat “extreme” at the time with what was daring plastic surgery (by those standards), but it still looked like the majority of her body would eventually biodegrade. Kim has taken Pamela’s aesthetic, blown it up, and churned it through the Kartrashian soul sucking meat grinder, wringing out any remaining humanity from Pamela’s look.
She’s not trying to look to like Pamela, she expects the world to recognize the Kartrash version of whatever she’s decided to claim as her own (just like she does with everything else). Pamela’s look may have been “tacky” but my brain still looks at her and registers “that’s a human.” I’m not going to look at Kim, a walking, talking, blow up doll version of Frankenstein’s/PMK’s monster, and associate that with any normal human, let alone Pamela Anderson. Slapping a blond wig on it with a sort of iconic hat ain’t gonna cover up the mess underneath. After seeing the video with the costume described in the title, I can see shades of Pamela, I guess, but otherwise I’d have no idea (and I was a late 90’s teen).
Also, to add misery to insult, Pamela and her son are going through some horrible times right now. Tommy Lee’s violent abuse of Pamela has been going on for ages, and their poor son got into a fight this year with Tommy to defend his mother.
Pretending to be Pamela and Tommy isn’t a fun throwback; theirs is a horrible story of vicious abuse that continues today. Maybe this isn’t the best time to mock this particular suffering family? Not that they care what Kim is up to, but come on Kim, perhaps consider showing a tiny amount of compassion. Think about it, maybe? Nah, of course not.
And using the r word…. there’s so much to be said about that, but right now, I just don’t have it in me. You all probably share my feelings there so a rant would be redundant. SMDH and then some! Also, why do all the Kartrash videos I see (at least on CB) seem to take place in empty mansions?
I try REAL HARD to remember that whenever I see her be a rape apologist for Julian Assange and when she’s coming off like Putin is paying ALL OF HER BILLS!
I try REAL HARD to remember that she has pretty much been exploited and abused for a big chunk of her life…
Because I be wanting to drag her for complete and utter FILTH! Pamela displays NO empathy to others who don’t co-sign on her perverse, twisted landscape
A character from Fraggle Rock? The Trash Heap would suit her best.
I can understand using that word in private, we used it when we were teens, never at someone who was mentally challenged., just between friends. But as my friends and I got older, we became very aware of the word and stopped using it. The fact that Kim is almost forty and this isn’t the first time one of them has had to apologize for using that word. I can’t believe she posted it to social media. I don’t like using the word hate, but I’m really hating everything this family does….except for the cute babies. But I’m sure those cute babies will grow up to be conceited and obsessed with their looks, just like the rest of them. I feel like any progress made in the world is all being put back by the constant stupidity of people.
The word is offensive regardless of how many people can witness your use of it in public or private. The word is verbally violent.
@Rando. Using the word and other words like it just makes people more like to use them in public. You aren’t internalizing the message that use of the word is wrong and offensive just that I shouldn’t let people know I use it.
Her sisters were already called out on it before too, so trying to play innocent doesn’t work. Maybe if any of them had actually made efforts to stop using it in the early/mid aughts when teachers and others seemed to really be discussing with kids how problematic it was, it wouldn’t still be flying so freely out of all their mouths in 2018.
I got it immediately. 🤷
Me too. It was that stupid hat that clued me in.
I’m not that young and I didn’t get the reference until there was a side by side photo of Pam Anderson.
I can’t stand her, she’s a mean nasty person
Yep.
Yes. A superficial, spoiled, vain mean girl.
Yup. I will never understand why people believe her nice girl schtick.
Thank you. She is a horrible, horrible person who occasionally does things that benefit others but only if they will ultimately benefit her more in some way.
Me either. She’s only nice when she thinks she can get attention for being nice.
I hate how many people still use the R word. And someone with that huge of a following (inexplicably, IMO) should certainly know better.
I got it without context. Everything about her costume screamed Pam Anderson. However, I’m 31 years old.
Shame on her for using that word.
Yeah. I am 33 and i remember that getup when Pam wore it. It didn`t click for me right away but when I saw what “foodgod” looked like (Tommy), I was like…yeah, I know who these people are supposed to be LOL
I actually thought Kim did a great job with the costume. She could have played Pam in a movie or something. No comment on the rest of the situation.
I’m 32 and would never get it without being told.
Pathetic
The second I saw it, I could tell she was supposed to be Pamela Anderson.
Classless and cruel when anyone uses the r-word that way
Not only mean and nasty, she is insipid and vapid.
If she’d ever gone to school, she’d know that the R-word is not an acceptable term in polite society. I blame it on poor parenting.
I blame the birth of Kim and her ilk on abusive parenting.
You’re almost 40 for god’s sake – how did you not already know that you shouldn’t use that word???
Also, that you would get that upset just because people didn’t immediately recognize your Halloween costume is sad.
When I hear that word, it takes my breath away. Like how most people react to the “n” word. I clutch my chest when I hear it. My daughter is severely disabled and I spend the majority of my time with children and adults with disabilities so it really upsets me. Probably more than it should, honestly. Kim is definitely not the only Kardashian that says it though. I hope they all learn how hurtful this word is in any context.
Same. I’m very mild mannered but if I ever hear someone use that word they are immediately called out and shamed. I’m so sorry this hits so close to home for you. Peace.
Thank you, Jennifer. I have had to talk to my friends about their use of this word. They were very apologetic about it and never used the word again. At least not in my presence which I am very grateful for. Education is key in situations like this.
I got the costume right away! but I’m 28 so.. damn I feel old now too. lol
Imagine Kim’s reaction when one day in the future people have no idea who she is and she is not in costume ?Kim will never be able to handle it.
This^^^
This isn’t the first time she or someone in her family used this word when angry and got called out for it. How many times can they say is just a mistake? Looks like is very common for them to say it, but there’s nobody to edit the Instagram stories to erase it.
I have noticed that many of them throw that word around a lot. They should all spend time in a day school for disabled individuals and learn more about them. Spend time with them and their families to learn just how offensive this word is. If I recall correctly, some of the Kardashians/Jenners spent time with the homeless population to learn from them so they should do the same with individuals with disabilities. I have a feeling they haven’t spent much time with people with special needs. They could definitely benefit from some sensitivity training on this matter and could help their fans learn from this as well. I wish I could invite them into my home with our disabled daughter, at my daughter’s school and with my aunt who suffers from Cerebral Palsy in her nursing home. Maybe I should contact Kim’s management about this matter.
Yeah, when you’re almost 40 and you party with 22 year olds, you’re old. Can’t plastic surgery time.
(Also, WTF to the r-word??)
I’m not cool with anyone ever using that word, but if she wants to in private — whatever. Posting it to social media is inexcusable, though. She should know better.
When my grandkiddos use it, even in private I correct them. If they get used to it in private good possibility it comes out at other times.
Even in private, it’s not acceptable and should be called out.
She’s bitter because people made her feel old. No amount of plastic surgery is going to hide the fact that her age is what it is and she hates being reminded of it.
It was a bad costume and the family freely throwing that word around makes me upset. I believe the other sisters have also been called out for it too
I’m sorry what’s the word? English is not my native and with so many urban dictionary references I sometimes get lost.
ugh ok googled it. She’s so insensitive and bubble protected. Why am I not surprised she’d do something like that.
Even without the R word, what was “pure,” exactly? Her intentions about what? Calling people idiots? I wish we could delete her.
Exactly! “My intentions were pure when I insulted you all for not understanding what my Halloween costume was! What matters here is that my heart was in the right place when I called you all stupid!”. The only idiot here is her.
honestly thought she had now moved on to appropriating drag queen fashion and was simply doing a “rachet” parody.
Me 2. Im in my mid 30s no clue she was supposed to be pam
She is so vulgar
She’s full of sh*t. Kourtney and Khloe also got backlash when they used the “r” word in a video earlier this year. She learned nothing from that? I think this family is very calculating. They don’t post anything without a reason. She wanted attention.
To those saying you can use the word in private but not in public or on social media:
It would be best to just not use it at all! Same as with white people who “accidentally” use the n-word when they get into an argument with black people. The word flows out of your mouth so freely because you’re already in the habit of using it. So just remove it from your vocabulary! The r-word is not acceptable in public or private. Kim should be ashamed.
And you know what sucks? This won’t change anything. People will stan for them and throw money at them. They never face any real consequences, apart from having to issue a PR-friendly apology along the lines of “That wasn’t my intention and I’m sorry everyone was offended.”
We rightfully hold racists and rapists accountable (or try to), and give this kind of behaviour a pass.
How would anyone get that “costume”? She just looks like Kylie.
I’m the same age as her, am very familiar with Pamela and Tommy Lee…and still didn’t get the costume. I just assumed “hawt fairy hat lady” was what she was going for. If no one gets your outfit, maybe your outfit isn’t very good? Also, this isn’t the first time the Kardashians have just casually thrown around that word. Khloe did recently as well. Obviously they feel free to say it at home.
She’s trash. Khloe also used it in a video recently (this summer) so I’m pretty sure it’s just part of their vocabulary.
And other than the fake boobs, nothing about her look screamed Pamela Anderson. Which Kim’s boobs are always fake, so how was anyone to guess?
I didn’t realize it was a costume and I’m 35. Kartrashian dresses like trash isn’t a headline. It’s her daily look. *shrug*
Not much came of it when Jennifer Aniston said it, and she never apologized. Shameful to both of them.
Pamela must be cringing!!! Tommy called out Food God for cultural appropriation LOLLLLL.
Is it just me or does anyone else find it offensive that they decided to dress up as a couple we’ll known for domestic abuse issues??!!
That would imply that any Kardashian has a lick of sense or two brain cells to rub together.
I’m sorry to say something negative (a little sorry), but her hips are grotesque.
In case anyone was wondering if she’s still the same vacuous trash bag she’s always been. Disability slurs are beneath contempt.
The R word is super offensive. That said, I’m a 90s child and, while it seemed so un remarkable at the time, I am so glad that was my coming of age. It puts today’s world in perspective and helps me keep the younger ones I advise aware of the dangers of letting your guard down (like not voting, etc.).
Because she looks like Kim kardashian when she wears a blonde wig.
So ironic she dresses up as a white person when every other day she tries to fetishize blackness and deepen her tan when she feels like it. Wonder which one is her real costume. Nothing real except the thirst.
I’ve been trying hard to stop using it, growing up in the 80’s it was a common word. And shortening it to the shorter T word.
I correct my boys whenever I hear them use it with each other or when they play online.
I point out even if you use it in private it’s still a word you use, and will be more likely to pop out.
That it’s hard to stop something once it’s ingrained in you, so don’t use it in the first place.