Totally arse-some: Kim Kardashian West showcases famed derrière in raunchy magazine shoot
Kim Kardashian West goes big. When she scored the cover of the April issue of US Vogue, the edition trended on Twitter immediately; it was the first cover to have its own hashtag (#worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple). It reportedly sold more than either Mobama’s or Beyoncé’s covers.
Now Kardashian West has a bigger target in her sights: she hopes to “break the internet”. At least, that’s the tagline to her jaw-dropping covers for the new issue of Paper magazine. In one, she is slick with oil, wearing only black opera gloves and pearls. The image throws her gargantuan backside centre-stage. The second — more astonishing, for ultimately the impact of her ubiquitous, nearly naked arse diminishes with every belfie (bum selfie) she Instagrams — presents her posing, bum extended at a right-angle and balancing a champagne glass on it. She wears a black dress but frankly who cares. It’s all about the arse.
The images were taken by photographer Jean-Paul Goude in Paris in September. As the cover breaks, Kardashian West is on holiday touring a vineyard in Malibu with sister Kourtney. Timing.
Twitter salivated. Comments reached from the crude (@laurenreeves remarked, “The only way Kim Kardashian could break the internet is by sitting on it”) to the reluctantly admiring (as @JasFly pointed out: “The headline didn’t read, ‘Break The Internet With Adoration’. One magazine cover created a global conversation. It did its job.”). @felixcartal was triumphant: “2hrs since @KimKardashian posted her Break The Internet photo and the Internet is still working fine... YOU LOSE KIM”. As the world wakes, he may be forced to eat his words.
And what about the arse at the centre of the furore? After uploading the pics, KK tweeted: “And they say I didn’t have a talent...try balancing a champagne glass on your ass LOL.” Kanye (a vocal supporter of his wife’s backside) tweeted a picture of the nearly nude cover with the enigmatic: “#ALLDAY”. Good luck, internet: you have quite a battle on your hands.
