Authenticity Check: Kim Kardashian Loses 100K Instagram Followers

Authenticity Check: Kim Kardashian Loses 100K Instagram Followers

Author: Bob Hutchins / Source: Business 2 Community I know, I know… you thought Kim Kardashian was 100% real, and now I have to be the on

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I know, I know… you thought Kim Kardashian was 100% real, and now I have to be the one to break it to you that she’s not! Here’s the short of it: this past week, Kim and friends were on vacation in Mexico. Their photos flooded Instagram, and revealed, as reporter Anna Lewis puts it, “like 95 percent of people in the world, Kim has cellulite.”

No big deal, of course.

Unless…

…you’re known for faking the “perfect” skin on your social media profiles through Photoshopped and airbrushed pictures.

Then people take issue with your authenticity.

As one Twitter user put it, “The problem isn’t with @KimKardashian having cellulite, the problem is she’s airbrushed and photoshopped so much, we don’t know the REAL her”

Okay, you might be thinking, “Who cares?” And, yeah, you probably don’t really care one way or the other if Kim’s social media account is airbrushed or not. But this little…

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