How Kim Kardashian Feels About Jameela Jamil’s ‘Problematic’ Corset Photo Comments

After Jameela Jamil criticized Kim Kardashian's use of corsets as perpetuating an 'impossible beauty standard' for women, we've EXCLUSIVELY learned what Kim thinks about being called 'problematic.'

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While discussing the corset video that Kim Kardashian posted to Instagram on June 23, Jameela Jamil encouraged fans to ā€œBLOCK. MUTE. [and] DELETEā€ those who ā€œtell you things that hurt your self-esteem.ā€ So, expect Kim, 39, to take Jameelaā€™s advice and mute The Good Place star, especially since Jameela, 34, said that Kim was ā€œdeludedā€ in promoting such a ā€œtoxicā€ image of beauty. Actually, Kim ā€œdoesnā€™t care what Jameela thinks [about the video],ā€ a source close to the family shares EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife, ā€œbut she does find it unnecessary.ā€

ā€œKim is all about empowering women and making them feel good, and that includes herself,ā€ the insider tells HollywoodLife. ā€œKim has insecurities like every other woman, and if she wears a corset and looks and feels good, she doesnā€™t see anything wrong with it. She wears corsets and waist trainers often ā€” as do her sisters ā€” to show off their small waists they work hard for. Kim knows sheā€™s known for that. Like several other women, she takes a zillion photos of herself, critiques them, tunes them with apps, and spends a long time perfecting them before posting. Kim is famous, but sheā€™s no different than anyone else when it comes to that kind of stuff.ā€

Kim Kardashian in her 2019 Met Gala look (Shutterstock)

Jameela addressed Kimā€™s video ā€“ a 2019 throwback of her wearing a corset, like the one she donned for the 2019 Met Gala  ā€“ after receiving ā€œover 1000 DMsā€ about it. She said she wasnā€™t ā€œtrying to cancel Kim Kā€ but ā€œtrying to arm [her fans] with the knowledge to recognize for YOURSELVES that this is a bullsh-t expectation of women, developed by the patriarchy. If YOU know that itā€™s problematic, reductive, and irresponsible for her to perpetrate such a heavily impossible beauty standard to her impressionable fansā€¦ then youā€™re empowered and conscious and donā€™t need me.ā€

From there, The Misery Index host defended Kim, saying she had ā€œdecades of body image issues and obsession,ā€ which had been ā€œHEAVILY perpetuated by how much the media scrutinized her and her sisters over their appearances. She isnā€™t actively trying to harm you. Sheā€™s just so harmed and deluded into thinking this is what SHE needs to look like to be special and beautiful, and sheā€™s spilling it out onto her following.ā€ Jameela still said that Kim promoting this standard of beauty is ā€œWRONGā€ but ā€œIā€™m not sure she realizes that sheā€™s doing to others what her idols did to her, in making her think a tiny waist is the key to femininity and sex appeal.ā€

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Jameela ended her message encouraging her fans not to go ā€œscreamingā€ at Kim, but to unfollow brands/people ā€œthat donā€™t make you feel powerful and happy and grateful for what you haveā€¦ THE PATRIARCHY WANTS US TO FOCUS ON OUR WEIGHT INSTEAD OF POWER, EQUALITY, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FREEDOM. F-CK ANYONE WHO ENCOURAGES THIS.ā€

This is not the first, nor will it be the last, time that Jameela has criticized a Kardashian. In 2018, she criticized the Kardashian sisters for promoting appetite suppressants and weight loss supplements, calling them ā€œbroken by this industry.ā€ She also has publicly criticized the Kardashians, and other celebrities for promoting ā€œdetoxā€/diet teas and Flat Tummy shakes.