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Kim K Gets Acclaim For Nude Selfie
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We Need Kim Kardashian’s Pregnant Selfie More Than She Does
In addressing the latter question, Kardashian made a good point. When she was growing up, there was no au currant standard of beauty that included her. When she was a teen in the 1990s, desirable looked like Kate Moss and Cindy Crawford, and even a woman of color like Naomi Campbell was long, leggy, and athletic. As a short, curvy Armenian-American girl there weren’t coveted public figures she could aspire to emulate or find confidence by identifying with (except, she noted, Jennifer Lopez). People who were desirable or famous or successful just didn’t look like her. So as an adult, she went out and created an archetype all her own.
And, yes, Kardashian has had the help of major media outlets like W and GQ and the dozens of other titles that have plastered her on their covers over the years, but the 354 pages of selfies in her book were all taken by her over the course of nine years. And she has been so effective at fetishizing a body type once considered too fat or too short or too dark-skinned that she is now derided for reinforcing impossible standards of beauty for women to uphold. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t! But the point is still crucial: People don’t get to decide who or what you are if you tell them for yourself, loud and clear, and our apps give us the platform to declare ourselves whenever we want.
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http://www.wired.com/2015/08/kim-kar...-selfie-image/
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Why Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy selfie would turn Titian on
Kardashian’s selfie is a hymn to the female body that harks back to the liberating portrayals of ample women in Renaissance and baroque art – and proves that ours is the most misogynist age in history
Kim Kardashian reclaims the beauty of being pregnant in her latest impressive selfie. In soft light, she sports an even more curvaceous form than usual: even more contours to revel in.
It’s a hymn to the female body that would have been far more familiar in the Renaissance than today. Stomach ****** are so common in Renaissance nudes that historians argue over whether or not they represent pregnancy. Van Eyck’s Eve and Raphael’s La Fornarina can both be seen as pregnant – or not – and their stomachs are very much part of their sensuality.
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http://www.theguardian.com/artanddes...fie-titian-art
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Kim Kardashian West Just Became a Role Model for Pregnant Women Everywhere
Famous women, meanwhile, have to live out their pregnancies in front of the public eye. Often times, celebrities fall victim to two extremes: idolized with an impossibly glamorous nude shoot, à la Demi Moore and Alicia Keys, or openly mocked with out-of-control-weight stories. Kardashian West is certainly familiar with the latter. By putting her expecting body on full display—no filters included—with a pose reminiscent of that infamous white bathing suit belfie, she is not only silencing the body shamers from the past, she’s also sending out a message that it’s beautiful, hell even sexy, to be pregnant.
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http://www.vogue.com/13293053/kim-ka...egnant-selfie/
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