Kim Kardashian Source Responds to Blackface Criticism of Magazine Photos

The '7Hollywood' cover had drawn criticism following Kim K's sharing of it via IG.

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A Kim Kardashian "source," per a report from a sources-stacked provider of such things, has responded to the controversy kicked off by a recent magazine cover.

Wait it gets worse....black women can't even get credit for inspiring Kim Kardashian's blackface. 🤦🏾‍♀️

She's channeling Diahann Carroll, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge NOT Elizabeth Taylor.

She's channeling BLACK WOMEN. #ThereIFixedIt 💁🏾‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/0t49ViVg3Q

— Dee Shines (@DeeShines13) December 19, 2019

can we all just leave kim kardashian (the kardashians period) in this decade? they profit and benefit from black women/culture and they have a weird fetish for black men. you can’t tell me this shit right here isn’t blackface. https://t.co/NpklwYsQUn

— kamyia (@kamyiagreen) December 19, 2019

The cover for the new edition of 7Hollywood magazine was criticized by some as being an example of "blackface," an assessment Kardashian—at least according to a "source close to" her quoted in a Page Six piece—has rejected.

"It's the lighting that makes her look darker in this specific image," the Six source explained. "There are multiple covers and images from this shoot where the lighting looks more natural. People are so quick to find the negative in everything and also often forget that she is of Armenian descent."

See the cover, which is part of a larger series of covers for the publication's latest issue, below:

The magazine, thus far, has not commented on any of this.

Kardashian's December has also included word that she was reportedly suing an Alabama area doctor for using her image to promote vampire facial services without her permission, as well as her rebuke of rumors that Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner were engaged.

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