One week after the Kim Kardashian issue of Paper Magazine, the one carrying a photospread with the curvaceous reality star showing off her body in a way she’s never done it before recently, she’s still talking about it.
This time, she’s denying rumors that it was mother and manager Kris Jenner who “made” her do it, who somehow forced her to ditch the clothes and try to #BreakTheInternet, because she was somehow slipping into irrelevance.
Kris might be Kim’s manager and she might get to call a lot of shots, but she’s perfectly in control of her career, she tells Us Weekly.
Kim doesn’t take orders from Kris, she’s her own woman
Addressing speculation that she’s nothing but a puppet on a string, with Kris pulling it, Kim insists that she was the one who decided to do the shoot for Paper: Kris didn’t have a say in it. In fact, Kris didn’t even know about it until it came out, so we’re to believe that she found out about it at the same time we did: when Paper released the preview for the upcoming issue.
“She does [manage me], but I'm pretty in control of my career. Everyone thinks she's this mastermind and tells us what to do and where to go,” Kim explains. “She was actually in Paris with me and I had dinner with her right after the shoot, and I'm pretty private about the stuff that I do until it comes out. So I told her I did a shoot and I was like ‘Just wait until it comes out — you'll see!’”
To better understand why people are saying that it was Kris who got Kim to undress, grease herself up from head to toe, and then pose for Paper, we should probably mention that there is widespread speculation that the adult tape Kim made with Ray J that got “leaked” and launched her career was actually a PR move planned by Kris.
Kris also got her daughter the Playboy and GQ spreads, and is said to monitor every breath her favorite daughter takes – at the same time she monitors everything that’s being said about her in the press and online.
Kim did the spread for the art
The reality star’s statement that she’s “in control” and that she did the shoot because she wanted to comes to enforce what she’s been saying for the past several days: she wanted to work with photographer Jean-Paul Goude so badly that she offered to do the spread for Paper free of charge.
Kris is allegedly foaming at the mouth that she’d make such a “bad” business decision, especially since she could have charged a lot now that she’s also a mother and Mrs. Kanye West, and a few steps closer to being A-list.
As Kim put it, the spread was an “art project” that she was honored to be a part of. Well, obviously, since it’s art, this explains why it was her who proposed to Goude to do the shoot sans clothes – it wasn’t the exhibitionist, attention-loving Kim speaking, it was the artist Kim.