In news that will shock absolutely no one, Khloé Kardashian has posted a series of slightly bizarre bikini pictures on Instagram. Wearing a cherry print bikini with trainers (which in itself feels like a minor public offence), the 40-year-old posed with her children, 7-year-old True Thompson and 2-year-old Tatum Thompson.
The desired reaction, we can assume, isn’t to examine whether it’s socially acceptable to wear a bikini with trainers in public, but to marvel at Khloé’s remarkably sculpted physique. “Her adductor muscles are so strong she could crush a thousand angry men between her thighs!”; “Her abs are so toned she must be in a perpetual state of crunch, doomed to contract her core for the rest of eternity!”, were among my initial thoughts.
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But because Khloé’s Instagram reaches hundreds of millions of people – a substantial sample size of humanity, which consists largely of terrible people – not all of the comments were quite so complimentary. You don’t have to scroll for long to find a whole litany of derogatory remarks about her body, from calling her too thin, providing unsolicited advice about gaining weight, and asserting that she’s using Ozempic.
Whether Khloé is taking weight loss medication – something she vehemently denies – is neither relevant nor remotely interesting (guess what? Most famous people are). What did interest me is how readily we verbally destroy a woman for having a body that looks a certain way, and specifically, how this woman has endured such public destruction for pretty much her entire adult life.
Khloé has been open about the relentless fat-shaming she endured when she was younger, before famously losing over 40lbs. On an episode of The Kardashians in July 2023, Khloé remarked: “I’ve been torn apart the minute that I’ve gone on TV. I didn’t look like my sisters, so therefore, it’s not good enough… Then when I started changing my look – you get better makeup, you do fillers, you do whatever, I had a nose job – and there’s still people constantly bullying you.”