Kim Kardashian (Foto/Mirror)
Kim Kardashian (Foto/Mirror)

Is Kim glamorizing anorexia?

SOME celebrities were not amused when Kim Kardashian West proudly bragged that her weight is down to 119 pounds—even less without her hair extensions.

It all started when the 37-year-old reality star posted stitched-up videos on Instagram of her and her sisters joking around.

“Your hair extensions, your ass, your t*ts, everything, they’re heavy... ’cause she’s f**king voluptuous,” Khloé Kardashian said in a video. “But she’s anorexic here,” Khloé continued, pointing at Kim’s waist and noting, “her arms are, like, pin-thin, they’re like my pinky.”

Kim enjoyed the attention and kept egging her sisters Khloe and Kendall Jenner to continue talking about how skinny she was.

Kendall even said she was as tiny as her purse—and she was using a very small purse.

“I’m really concerned. I don’t think you’re eating,” Kendall told Kim, who answered in disbelief: “Whaaaaaaaat?”

“You look so skinny,” Kendall continued, to which Kim replied: “Whaaaaat? ...Thank you!”

But bragging about being 119 pounds didn’t sit well with model Tyson Beckford and other celebrities.

The Shade Room caught Beckford commenting on a photo of a curvy Kim in skin-tight clothing: “Sorry, I don’t care for it personally. She is not real. Doctor f**ked up on her right hip.”

Kim, known as the clap-back queen, said: “Sis, we all know why you don’t care for it.” She was implying that the 47-year-old model was gay. Netizens started picking sides. Some called Kim a homophobe, while others called out Beckford for body-shaming Kim.

Beckford denied he was gay, stating on social media: “I support LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer), even though I’m not gay. It’s just the human thing to do.”

Other female celebrities also made their sentiments known about being 119 pounds.

“The only time I was 119 pounds is when I had (mononucleosis). On a magazine shoot, everyone was ‘freaking out over how good’ I looked,” Emmy Rossum said on her Instagram story. “I had lost 10 pounds and was gaunt and sick and felt faint ...It totally messed with my head.”

She later clarified in a tweet that she wasn’t criticizing Kim.

“To be clear, someone’s weight is between them and their health professionals. I have no opinion on this. My opinion is only on the danger of praising—even in jest—anorexia.”

Stephanie Beatriz of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” also shared her experience about anorexia: “Kim saying what she weighs and her sisters complimenting her (on) being so skinny is like eating my brain. There’s only one time in my life when I ever weighed 119 pounds. It was right in the middle of a terrible relationship, and intense eating disorder, and I thought that I could be thinner and look even better. Everyone kept complimenting me on how I looked, and I felt desperate to stay at that weight. It sucked.”

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