Tina Fey discussed Kim Kardashian in her 2011 book Bossypants. Though Fey had no idea Kardashian would try to “break the Internet” in 2014, her comments about the star especially apply after Tuesday.
The 34-year-old reality TV star and mother went full-frontal nude for Paper magazine photographs. The magazine released winter cover photos of the star’s butt lathered in oil on Tuesday. Paper magazine then released the more revealing photos on Wednesday. The tweet of the image had the caption, “We know you came for the article.”
Another picture of her fully clothed showed her balancing a champagne glass on her butt, which she tweeted as #BreakTheInternet.
Kim Kardashian’s known for her body, as she gained originally fame through the release of a sex tape. The photos helped her brand.
With the large response on social media the photos have caused, it seems fitting to revisit what Tina Fey said about Kim Kardashian in Bossypants. The context revolved around women’s body images in general, but ended with a line about Kardashian.
“I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty. Girls wanted butts now.
Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful.
Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyoncé and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful.
Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.”
Tina Fey’s Kim Kardashian comments came as close to predicting Kardashian’s attempt to “break the Internet” as humanly possible.