Kylie Jenner accused of cultural appropriation again over braid hairstyle

This is not the first time the beauty mogul's hairstyle has courted controversy 
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Emma Clarke3 January 2020

Kylie Jenner has been accused of cultural appropriation again, after she shared an image of her with braids with her 156 million followers.

The 22-year-old makeup mogul posted the never-before-seen snap taken by the Morelli Brothers on her Instagram Stories last night, which was an out-take from her Paper Magazine shoot in February last year.

In the photo, Jenner is wearing a checked shirt and white cami, with a barbed wire choker around her neck. The reality TV star also has her hair up, parted slightly off-centre with braids cascading down her shoulders.

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Jenner has been accused of cultural appropriation for the look. After someone highlighted Kylie's hairdo in the photo, a Twitter user responded: "The cultural appropriation jumped out."

Another wrote: "She wants to be a black woman so bad, until it’s time to be a black woman."

A third added: "[sic] What’s w/ the KarJenners & fetishizing black women?!"

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Indeed, it's not the first time Kylie has been accused of appropriating black culture; she and sister Kendall were slammed for a 2015 picture of them with cornrows.

Their clothing range was also criticised for appropriating Chloa culture two years ago.

In 2016, Jenner uploaded a bathroom selfie of her with cornrows, which came under fire.

A year before that, Justin Bieber defended Jenner for another photo of her with cornrows, calling claims that she is racist "ridiculous".

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Big sister Kim Kardashian has also repeatedly been called out for her hairstyles, along with a furore when she originally decided to call her shapewear range Kimono.

Khloe Kardashian was also slammed for wearing bantu knots in 2016.

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