Kim Kardashian responds to accusations she edited her belly button out of a photo: 'This is so dumb'
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- Kim Kardashian responded to accusations of editing a photo that didn't show her belly button.
- In an Instagram story post, she called the accusations "so dumb."
- Kardashian said that the explanation was simpler: She was wearing high-waisted underwear.
Kim Kardashian said that she didn't edit a photo of her posing by the pool, in response to accusations that she had edited out her belly button.
On Tuesday, Marie Claire reported, Kardashian posted multiple screenshots of articles reporting on the photo-editing accusations.
"Come on guys...Seriously! This is so dumb," Kardashian wrote on her story, laying text over a screenshot of a Page Six story, according to a screenshot published by Marie Claire. "Claiming I photoshopped out my belly button????"
Kardashian posted the photos in question on Sunday, Entertainment Tonight reported. The series of three pictures shows her posing in a beige sports bra, the waistband of a pair of underwear visible above her black sweatpants.
"Sunday in my @skims," Kardashian captioned the post, tagging her own shapewear brand.
As the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, people had accused Kardashian of editing the photos, citing the fact that her belly button isn't clearly visible in them as evidence.
Kardashian said in a subsequent Instagram story post that her belly button was concealed for a much more innocuous reason — it was covered by her underwear.
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"Belly button insecurities?!" She wrote in on her Instagram story, accompanied by one of the photos of her posing by the pool. "Well... why don't you head on over to skims.com to conceal that saggy belly button of yours with a great pair of high waisted underwear like I did! You're welcome!!!"
Members of the Kardashian-Jenner family have been accused of editing some of their photos in the past. As Insider previously reported, Kardashian has come under fire in the past for posting photos that appeared to be edited on social media, showing extraneous fingers or distorted angles.
In the past, she's spoken candidly about editing some photos, including one in which she added her daughter North West into a family Christmas card in 2019.