Why the internet could soon be free of the Kardashians

We’ve had a longstanding policy at Starts at 60: No Kardashians and no funeral ads.

But we’re going to have to break it, because it looks like the end of the fame-hungry US family might be nigh! The most famous of the clan, Kim Kardashian, has reportedly lost 100,000 followers on her Instagram account because, shock, fans have realised that she’s been retouching images of her over-exposed body.

That’s according to many publications, which say the backlash is due to the influx of unretouched pictures of Kim and her sister Kourtney holidaying on a beach on Mexico in the media this week that showed, double shock, the reality TV star has cellulite on her controversial buttocks. Apparently that cellulite is normally airbrushed out of her photos, leading many fans to be surprised that she’s afflicted with a condition that affects 90 per cent of women (and 10 percent of men, Scientific American says). 

The problem isn't with @KimKardashian having cellulite,the problem is she's airbrushed and photoshopped so much, we don't know the REAL her

— Nikki Bae (@iamnikkiraexo) April 24, 2017

https://twitter.com/Lisadic02231442/status/729075089719824386

Sure, the loss of 100,000 followers on Instagram isn’t likely to bother Kim, given that she has 98.9 million remaining.

But the loss of some of her keenest media supporters might sting a little more.

Former newspaper editor and TV host Piers Morgan had long been a fan of Kim, who he met after he took over from Larry King as CNN’s biggest talk show host. He admitted recently that he genuinely liked Kim, who he called “smart, warm, polite, engaging and self-aware”. Morgan even defended the reality TV star when she was criticised for posing nude on the front of a magazine in an effort to ‘break the internet’.

But in a new column for The Daily Mail newspaper, Morgan has lashed out at the most famous Kardashian, saying that he is “done with Kim Kardashian. And her ghastly family. Done. Done. DONE.”.

“This feeling of utter, skin-crawling anathema towards all things Kardashian and Jenner has been creeping up inside my intestines for a while but it crystallised itself today in a blazing eruption of irritation and contempt,” Morgan wrote, pointing out that Kim’s buttocks were key to the sales of her related merchandise, such as the buttock-shaped pool float (yes, really) that sells for US$98 ($130).

KIMOJI 4:20 MERCH ON https://t.co/eiJ3Tfu6zn FOR A LIMITED TIME pic.twitter.com/bOSlxVeNRX

— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) April 21, 2017

“The only problem is that the real thing, as we have now seen, bares no relation to the perfectly proportioned, super-smooth, cellulite-free vision of glory she sells to the world via her Kimoji wares or the heavily-airbrushed photos she posts and flogs to magazines.
Now, high-profile celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who was once friends with Kim, has piled on by covering the loss of fans on his own website.

If the trend continues, this could mean we finally see less of the Kardashians on our social media sites. Which means we just have to address the question, how did a person who’s only claim to any kind of unusual talent was based on a leaked sex tape and buttocks out of proportion to the rest of her body, and what does that say about modern society?

That’s one for another day!

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