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Khloé Kardashian Is Now Being Skinny-Shamed

Khloe Kardashian worked hard — and kept it healthy — for this body, and she's not apologizing for it. (Photo: Instagram/khloekardashian)
Khloé Kardashian worked hard — and kept it healthy — for this body, and she’s not apologizing for it. (Photo: Instagram/khloekardashian)

Now we’ve heard everything. Proving that there really is no way to win in the body-shaming wars, Khloé Kardashian — who has complained about being the “fat sister” of her famous family, according to the Daily Mail, and has endured her fair share of public criticism over the years for being a curvaceous lady — is now being hated on for, you guessed it, being too thin.

In a tweet posted yesterday morning, the coolest Kardashian (we’re not counting North West) said:

Clearly not over it, literally a minute later she followed up with:

And a “game” is probably the perfect thing to call it, as being in the spotlight seems to intensify the pressure put on a woman to be thin enough, but not too thin, and not too thick either. Plus, she has to have perfect skin, flawless hair, and, of course, eyebrows on fleek at all times. Make one wrong move — or take one bad picture — and you’re fair … well, game for unending scrutiny. That’s not counting Khloé’s legions of supportive fans, like @shad_powers, who sweetly tweeted back, “You’re not ‘too’ anything, just always the flawless amount of you.”

Kardashian has been open about the strict, dairy-free diet and intense workout regimen with trainer Gunnar Peterson that has helped her shed 40 pounds and sculpt a red-hot “revenge body,” according to Women’s Health. Her healthy slim-down, she told the publication, “is just as much for all my critics who called me ‘the fat one’ for my entire existence.”

Like many women, Kardashian is already one of her own biggest critics. “Growing up, I was always chubby,” she told People. “My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.” She says her “incredibly loving and nurturing” parents always made her feel beautiful, but it was the media that shook her body image and gave her a complex when Keeping Up With the Kardashians debuted in 2007 and thrust her into the public eye.

But she was young and more impressionable then. Now, as a confident 31-year-old, she seems to be on a fitness journey not just to silence the critics but also to prove to herself that there’s life after heartbreak. According to the Daily Mail, she told an Australian radio station that she decided to turn to exercise and eating healthy as a “form of therapy and a stress reliever” after her messy breakup and filing from divorce in 2013 from troubled former NBA star Lamar Odom.

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A photo posted by Khloé (@khloekardashian) on May 6, 2016 at 3:12pm PDT

America’s body-shaming culture has gotten so intense that just this month, Jennifer Aniston — who’s practically achieved martyr status for the amount of flak she takes, and with such poise — finally penned an open letter to defend herself. When you’re a famously fit 47-year-old who adheres to a lifestyle of healthy, disciplined dieting and exercise, it seems it’s your “baby bump” that’s under constant watch — and Aniston just wasn’t having any of it anymore. In the letter, she asserted, “For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up. I’m fed up with the sport-like scrutiny and body shaming that occurs daily under the guise of ‘journalism,’ the ‘First Amendment,’ and ‘celebrity news’.” Preach.

Other brave celebs to take on the body-shaming bullies like the badasses they are include Tyra Banks, who — after having the audacity to put a few extra pounds onto her sexy model physique — stripped down to a swimsuit on her (now-defunct) talk show in 2007 to tell critics to “kiss my fat ass!”

In 2015, Kelly Clarkson — who retained some baby weight after giving birth to daughter River Rose — was on the receiving end of some pretty cruel tweets by British TV personality Katie Hopkins, including:

Hopkins went on to tweet that having a baby “a year ago” no longer makes the extra pounds “baby weight.” “It is fat,” she said. Clarkson fans were outraged, but the singer took it all in stride. According to the Daily Mail, the 33-year-old eventually told Heat magazine, “She’s tweeted something nasty about me? That’s because she doesn’t know me. I’m awesome!”

But it was plus-size role model and actress Gabourey Sidibe who shut it all down when she responded on Twitter to fat-shaming comments about her 2014 Golden Globes appearance:

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