Is Kim Kardashian’s bum REAL? Here’s what the reality star has had to say about her famous behind
The reality star, 36, has vehemently denied having cosmetic surgery to inflate her bum
SHE’S famed for her bootylicious behind.
And, Kim Kardashian’s rump looked bigger and better than ever as she paraded around on a Miami beach in a sexy thong bikini yesterday.
The reality star, 36, has vehemently denied having cosmetic surgery to inflate her bum, and claims her curvaceous look is down to pregnancy weight and treatment for psoriasis.
During an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians in 2011, Kim had her derriere X-rayed to prove she hasn’t had silicone implants in her cheeks.
“Who the hell of a normal person gets butt implants?” she told the show.
Doctors confirmed Kim is au natural. “I’m so glad I did this X-ray,” she said at the time.
“The whole world has been doubting me – this is the best thing I could’ve done.”
But this didn’t silence the sceptics and in February 2014, less than a year after giving birth to her daughter North, Kim took to Twitter to shut down more surgery rumours.
“I'm seeing all these nonsense tabloids claiming I have butt implants-injections. Get a life! Using pics of me 15lbs skinnier (before I had my baby) comparing to me now! I still have weight to lose,” the KKW Beauty founder, who also has son Saint with husband Kanye West, wrote.
“Anyone who has had a baby knows how hard it is to lose weight (especially the last bit of weight) & your body totally changes!”
That year, Kim’s bottom hit the headlines once again after she posed naked – and oiled up – on the cover of Paper Magazine.
The enormity of her ass led some to question if it was real, but the publication’s editorial director, Mickey Boardman, jumped to her defence: “Every cover of every magazine is airbrushed on some level. But what I will say, is that IS her butt.
“It is not padded. It is not augmented. That is all really her. But, yes, there was retouching to clean things up and make things look amazing.
“That’s what retouching is. It’s not building an ass that isn’t there or taking 50 pounds off the waist.”
Questions continued to be raised about Kim’s boosted backside, and in 2016 she admitted to getting butt injections – but there was a catch.
During a livestream on her app, Kim explained she gets jabs in her backside to alleviate psoriasis symptoms.
“I went to go get a cortisone shot in my butt,” she said, recounting her first injection appointment.
“I lived right behind Kitson [a now-closed boutique in Los Angeles near Cedars-Sinai Hospital]. One of my neighbours was a dermatologist at Cedars.
“I go in there and he’s like, ‘There’s a one in a billion chance that you will get a huge indent in your butt.’ Of course I get a huge indent on my butt.”
According to Kim, she believes the dent in her derriere became the catalyst for butt implant rumours.
“There is a picture of me in Miami wearing an electric blue dress, and another picture of me walking down Robertson [Boulevard],” she said.
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“You see the indent. And I think that’s when the rumours started: ‘She’s had implants.’”
Speaking at London’s Vogue Festival last year, Kim admitted she wants to downsize her bum.
“I want to lose my bum, not all the way but it’s weird how your body changes with different babies,” she said
“I want to get to Kim 2010-11 so I’m really going to focus and get there.”
Kim’s internet-breaking behind looked incredibly smooth in the new holiday snaps, a far cry from the much-publicised “cellulite snaps” taken of her on a beach in Mexico back in April.
“I have cellulite, just like almost every other woman on the planet. And just because I feel secure with my body doesn’t mean I think cellulite is cute!" she told magazine.
“It will always be an issue for me. So let’s just say it’s a work in progress!”
While she told in 2015 that her curves have given her confidence.
"I’m an Armenian girl, I have shape, and it turned out people liked that," she told the UK edition of the international fashion monthly.
"That makes me feel good about myself and about other women for being so supportive. I am a confident woman, but I didn’t just arrive confident – it has built over the years and that is a big part of who I am now," she said.
Here's what a cosmetic surgeon thinks
Dr Munir Somji, Leading Cosmetic Surgeon and CMO of Dr told The Sun Online:
"In my opinion, Kim Kardashian has had bum implants via fat transfer," he said.
"When fat is transferred into the buttocks, it is generally taken from the tummy and flanks (between the ribs and hips).
"Only a certain percentage of the fat survives, resulting in dimples on the surface of the skin which require top ups.
"These dimples are visible on Kim which could be an indication of implants."
Kim claims the dimples are down to psoriasis jabs and cellulite.