Khloe Kardashian In Flesh Bikini Stirs Controversy With ‘Damaging’ Caption

Reality star Khloe Kardashian is facing some backlash due to a caption that some found “weird” and others called “damaging.”

The former “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” reality star is no stranger to body shaming, but in this post, fans were looking for a bit more body positivity.

Back in April, “The Kardashians” reality star shared a single snap with her Instagram followers that featured her lying on a beach in a flesh-colored bikini. She paired the look with a black jacket to shield her arms from the sun and kept her face cropped out of the shot.

Her long legs stretched toward the water, where she showcased her thighs and bare feet. Bits of sand could be seen clinging to her skin as she stretched back with one leg bent at an angle and the other foot pointed straight out toward the water in front of her.

Even though some thought that the mother-of-two looked great in this photo, it looks like the reality star wasn’t happy with what she saw in the mirror. “This post is for me to be motivated! Come on Khloé! You got this,” she wrote in the caption before adding, “Time to turn up the cardio and weights.”

Many followers weren’t a fan of her caption. “This isn’t as inspiring as you thought it’d be,” one user pointed out.

“What in the 2002 sort of caption is this?” another follower asked.

It seems a lot of people thought this Kardashian was stuck in the past, as another user asked, “What is happening? Is this 2013?”

No one has the perfect body, and many parents think that social media is only pushing unrealistic beauty standards on young girls. Many felt that this post was just another example of how social media could be used in harmful ways and get girls and women to feel unworthy in their skin.

“Perfection is unattainable. Little girls seeing this & reading these words need to love the skin they’re in,” one follower wrote. “This crap post is exactly why social media is so harmful to the mental health of our young people. Really sad messaging here by a lady that many young girls idolize.”

Other users agreed, with another netizen adding, “Careful what messages you’re sending to young women.”

Another user didn’t understand why Khloe would share that message when she was the mother to a young, impressionable daughter.

“I do not understand how a girl's mom doesn’t see how damaging this is,” another follower wrote.

“Boys as well,” another user chimed in. “My son was the one with the eating disorder issues and then his pediatrician gave me information on how common it is for boys. I agree though that this is such a poor post.”

When another person asked how working out could be “damaging” to other people, another user replied, “Promoting working out because apparently there's something wrong with her body in this photo... or is it that she wants to get back to this body? Who knows... but there's loads of better reasons to exercise than trying to achieve someone's idea of the perfect body.”

The Good American co-founder told Bustle that she wished Ozempic had been around years ago so she could have taken it then.

“Looking back, when I was bigger, I thought I was the hottest thing in the world. I had so much more confidence the bigger I was, which is what’s crazy,” she said in December 2024.

After getting negative comments on whether she was bigger or smaller, Khloe said that she “realized you’ll never make everyone happy” and realized that she has “to do what’s best for me.”

“But even if people get surgery or [get on] the Ozempic craze, I’m like, 'Who cares!' As long as people feel good about themselves, who am I to judge? I think it’s ridiculous, the judgment on that," she said, adding, "I’m just mad [Ozempic] wasn’t around 10 years ago.”