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Here are some assorted photos of Kim Kardashian from the past several days. In some of these, Kim is once again leaving the dermatologist’s office, so once again, I have to ask: what’s going on there? Why in the world are all of these dermy trips necessary?!

Anyway, Kim had a big week, what with posting a year-old photo for attention, then manufacturing a controversy around it, then using that manufactured controversy to paint herself as a victim whilst standing up for feminism, body positivity and anti-body-policing messages. It was a complicated week, and Kim ended the week by deflecting to her children. On Friday, she posted the second-ever Twitter/Instagram photo of Saint West, who honestly just looks like North West’s twinsie.

You’re the sun in my morning babe pic.twitter.com/qqV6OvR5a1

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) March 11, 2016

Very cute. When North was this age, I always thought that she looked just like her mom (or how her mom originally looked before all the work), but as North has gotten older, I see more of Kanye in her. I bet it will be the same with Saint.

Meanwhile, back the #Kimtroversy about body image, nude photos, etc. Amber Rose stood up for Kim and clapped back at Kim’s haters last week. And Amber has a new interview with Nightline (seriously!) about the whole incident. Amber told Nightline:

“I thought she looked beautiful. I’m a mom. I know how hard it is to like work out and try to get your body back but at the same time, embracing the fact that your body does change after you have a baby. After carrying a baby, I just think it’s really cool and I’ve seen that she’s been getting a lot of [flack] for it and I didn’t think it was fair.”

Rose, 29, who previously dated Kardashian West’s husband, Kanye West, considers the reality-TV star a friend, though she explained that her words were meant to defend all women. In Hollywood, she said, a double-standard exists in which overtly sexual women are chastised in a way that their male counterparts are not.

“If Brad Pitt posted a picture like that, everyone would praise him,” she said. “If any sexy guy posted a nude picture with a little black strip over his private areas, everybody would be like, ‘Damn, he’s hot, he’s sexy looking. Look at that body!’”

Rose believes that the problem is partially rooted in the idea that celebrities should be role models. In reality, she said, Kardashian-West should only be concerned with her own children: North, 2, and Saint, 3 months. Everybody else, she continued, should just try to be supportive of one another.

“Just try to be as positive as possible,” she said, “and you can make a change.”

[From ABC News]

I’m not going to beat a dead horse (because it’s clear that most of you disagree with me anyway), but I’m squarely on Team Kim and Team Amber on this one. While there are many valid criticisms of Kim – and absolutely, she is a vapid, plastic famewhore – I completely believe that many of the comments about Kim and her body last week were rooted in judgment and a disturbing amount of body-policing. I fundamentally believe that no one has the right to tell a woman what she should or should not do with her body, whether it’s choosing to post nudes on social media or choosing to have an abortion or choosing to wear modest clothes or whatever else you’ve got.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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