In the beginning of the Kardashians’ meteoric rise to fame, youngest sister Khloe was often discussed in alternative terms to Kim and Kourtney.
According to tabloids, they were sex symbol social media princesses while Khloe was “the taller and bulkier” third cog in what was becoming a monstrous entrepreneurial machine.
At one point speculation as to why Khloe’s body was so ‘unlike’ her sisters’ was so intense, the Los Angeles Times wrote: “[her] lighter hair colour and larger build have sparked numerous rumours that she was either adopted or had a different father than her siblings.”
Aside from her tumultuous love life, perception of Khloe Kardashian has been almost entirely defined by her body, and her seesawing relationship with it.
This came, of course, before whirring paparazzi lights and TV-documented family dinners.
When her father Robert Kardashian died in September 2003, the personality, then 19 years old, says she descended into a "spiral" fixated around food.
"Internally just suppressing so many things that it was, like, eating me alive, and I was literally eating everything," she told E! News.
Since finding fame the narrative hasn't changed. Diet, weight, exercise and body image act as checkpoints for every major event in the 32-year-old's life.
“Everyone criticises me about my weight all the time," Khloe told Life & Style in July 2009, proudly adding: "It’s easy for me to be like some other girls in Hollywood — not eat and become anorexic — but thank goodness I am strong-willed and secure with myself.
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Maybe if Khloe wants to change things, it's up to her to change them? I completely understand what it's like to struggle with your weight, and I can't imagine how hard it must be to do it with such enormous public scrutiny. But by posting so much about her weight, advertising the detox/diet teas / waist trainers etc, she's just going along with it all. If she wants to change the narrative, how about stopping all that? Talk about other things - there's a million things she could be posting about. The trouble is that she and her family have based their fame in large part on their appearance, it's all about their clothing/ make up/ weight loss/ exercise routine/ etc etc.
Also, is that a typo in the article - "Glittering cars and waxed mansions"? Should it not be the other way around - unless waxed mansions are a thing, and I'm just old and out of the loop? :)
How I wish weight didn't define us but the sad fact is in this day and age of smoke and mirrors magazines it does. I've also struggled with weight all my life. Khloe has played on it though too, she's used it to her advantage.