Kim Kardashian-West can #SuckIt

Today's post features an article that I wrote as a supposed rant against not only the Kardashians, but also at other influencers who popularise the culture of using flat tummy teas and other diet products, which advertise the facade of losing weight and getting that ideal body type. Please comment and share.

Reality Star Kim Kardashian advertising a flat tummy lollipop. Picture: KimKardashianWest/Instagram

I have never publicly acknowledged that I follow the Kardashian-Jenner family, nor have I felt the need to acknowledge my discreet act of following them on any social media network. However, I do feel as though I have to apologise for acting in a hypocritical manner when I say that I do not follow the Kardashian-Jenner family when I do in some aspects.

I don’t want them on E! Entertainment, nor do I follow them on any social media platform but I do read stories about them, occasionally like their photos on Instagram and admit to liking some their fashion sense (only Kourtney’s). I do admit to saying that I fell in love with the Range Rover model from watching a Keeping Up With A Kardashian episode when I was eleven years old, and I do admit to wanting Khloé Kardashian’s figure when I was thirteen years old.

When I was thirteen years old, I was just falling into my bout of depression, while also dealing with my experiences of bullying and also dealing with other family issues, so I turned to the glitzy world of celebrities to distract me. Sure, I stopped religiously watching the Kardashians when I was thirteen, but I would sneak in an episode or two because I wanted to know how they achieved the bodies that they flaunted. I wanted to know how Khloé was so confident knowing that she had a plus size figure. It was only my mistake to learn that she hated that figure and decided to go slimmer in the future - but I’m distracting myself now.

The habit the Kardashian-Jenner family have of promoting fitness and health products that help to slim bodies (which a lot of Instagram influencers do as well) is so self-harming that it hurts me to my core. If there is one thing that I have become passionate about is becoming body positive and learning to use my bullying and depression experiences to help myself and others to love their bodies regardless of what people think of them. It’s not the easiest task in the world, but it is a nice journey to go on, especially when one doesn’t need to follow a Kardashian or a Jenner to use their body as inspiration. So, in continuing with my journey, I would like to apologise for what I am bout to say, but need to say because it is bubbling up into anger in my head.

The Kardashian-Jenner family are a bunch of selfish parasites who only care about their bodies and making money, which is great for them because its working out so well, but its harmful to the other people who follow them to the point of worshiping them religiously. It is so sad to watch people aspire to be any member of this sometimes barbaric family who could give two shits if one of their followers starts to suffer from a mental or body disorder because they religiously bought the so called slimming teas that Khloé, Kourtney, Kim and Kylie have a habit of promoting.

It is so sad to see that through the applications like Instagram that people are so blind to this idea, and that a lot of their followers haven’t unfollowed/boycotted them as yet, because honestly that’s what this family deserves. Real talk - These sisters will still manage to go to sleep at night and wake up refreshed in the morning even after a person’s name starts trending on twitter or Instagram because they died form their eating/mental disorder after failing to achieve their goal or looking like Kim or Khloé or Kylie because they have no money for plastic surgery but they had money to buy plenty of appetite suppressant products, and that angers.

I have a feeling that this family won’t care that social media followers under the age of fifteen will start feeling so conscious about their body because of how Kylie or Kendall looks, or how Kylie uses a slimming tea and has already slimmed back to her original body after giving birth, but a fifteen year old girl or boy can’t lose their baby fat. That hurts me. That upsets me.

That makes me want to punch a wall until my knuckles bleed because of the thousands of influenced teenagers and adults who will blindly listen to Kim’s advert about a damn lollipop that will “supposedly suppress appetite” while not mentioning any of the side effects because it will be so sad if Kim were to lose money because of the health side effects of bloody damn red lollipop.

I am shaking with anger and sadness that this note I am writing will probably be ignored or not read at all, or that I’ll be insulted for my views because I am just a 22-year old woman with her own body issues who has dealt with these issues since the day my boobs started growing. I just wish people would take this adverts seriously and boycott the Kardashian-Jenner family as seriously as we take the issues of Zara and H&M, and how we easily boycott (or trash) these brands for their horrid advertisement.

If we began to boycott the Kardashian-Jenner family products including makeup and clothing on a global scale, it would cause a massive wake up to the family to make them realise that their voice matters in more ways than one, and perhaps they should probably listen to some of the comments made on their social media posts about how sad their posts are when they promote these products.

Again, I do apologise if there are followers out there who do follow a religious workout & diet regime - this article won’t necessarily concern you - but for people like me who still have major anxiety attacks when entering the gym and have tried so many diets, my impressionable mind will think that this lollipop will help and when it doesn’t yield the results that I or anyone else may want, I’ll end up slipping further into my depression.

So I ask you, no, beg you to please show this family that their voice matters, that their posts matter but boycotting them. If health specialists can tell us that these products are bogus or unhealthy then why can’t we tell this family that? Why can’t we get Kim to delete her post on that stupid red lollipop and genuinely apologise for lying about using a product to lose weight when she has the privilege of hiring a personal trainer?

Why do we have to be zombies and follow every bloody trend of the Kardashian-Jenner family?

Why can’t we use our voices on the digital platform for something good, than to just call these reality stars out for lying to their followers?

What’s stopping us?

-Love, light and blessings xx