Say what you want about __Kylie Jenne__r, but there's no denying she gets a ton of hate when it comes to her looks. Folks are constantly throwing shade at her for looking "fake" and actress Keke Palmar took to Instagram to finally talk about the deeper issue here. She broke everything down from why people are so obsessed with how Kylie looks, to cyber-bullying and the misconception of perception vs. reality. Warning: Keke's powerful words might inspire you to put yourself on check.
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Keke brought up the subject by posting side-by-side shots of Kylie back in 2012 and Kylie now. The nasty meme caption reads: Kylie's so ugly! Why can't she just grow up?" on the 2012 side and then "Ew, Kylie's so fake! What happened to her?" on the 2016 side. Keke had SO much to say about this.
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"After Trump's win, I really was convinced that we have become so obsessed with making things appear to be real than need them to actually BE real. AKA: Reality TV, that's the gag," she wrote. "Reality television is based off of the desire WE HAVE to see non-scripted shows that MIMIC reality, "false things appearing real" that's the ART of it, how real they can make us THINK it is. And many social media platforms support that same thing. We have settled for knock off truth in our actual reality because it's socially acceptable to lie for likes."
Keke then goes on to address the troubling Kylie Jenner meme.
"Looking at this photo above I couldn't help but stop dead in my tracks because even though I do feel like this family sets an example that it's good to change for societies affection, how can you blame them? We don't think that this young woman deserves the attention she receives because of the message it sends but we don't even think about the fact that for years the whole world damn near agreed that she was ugly. A CHILD, that girl was a child and she was bullied and named ugly and not as a character but as HERSELF … And unlike some that experience such ridicule she had the $$$ to change, she "fixed" what the world said was broken and it worked! Now you are mad that it was that easy?"
Keke's post is SO on point and it's about time someone really addressed this. Kylie Jenner has always been ridiculed for her looks. She was told she was the ugly sister in the Kardashian-Jenner clan, she was ridiculed for her thin lips, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was also ridiculed for not being as curvy as her older sisters. So what did she do? She went and had her lips plumped and it appears that she's also had work done to give herself more of an hourglass shape. Sure, it's super obvious, but can you really blame her?
How can we judge someone who was so deeply criticized for her appearance and decided to "fix" herself just to keep up with today's beauty standards. I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying that every time someone ridicules our appearance we should instantly change it. I'm just saying, we should give women who do decide to change their appearance a break.
Just imagine the kind of insecurities Kylie has probably had regarding her looks. Before getting lip injections done she was constantly told they were too small and even had a boy back in middle school point them out.
"This guy I kissed was like, 'Your lips are really small, but you're a really good kisser. I didn't think you were gonna be a good at kissing," she told Complex magazine. "It was so rude. From then on, I just felt like I saw guys staring at my lips. I felt like no one wanted to kiss me."
Then she gets lip injections and people still have something to say. "It's annoying to hear every day that you're just this fake, plastic person when you're not." Wrong if you do, wrong if you don't.
I celebrate Keke for pointing out this problem and I think we should let this be a lesson to all of us. Let's try to be kinder to other women. Let's use any opportunity we can to praise each other rather than criticize and bring each other down. The more we celebrate each other's beauty, the less any of us will want to "fix" our flaws.
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