The 36-year-old reality TV star said she didn't mean to offend anyone, but she learned from her mistakes and made changes to all KKW Beauty photos.
- Jun 20, 2017
AceShowbiz - Kim Kardashian has finally broken her silence on the blackface accusation. The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star stated that she never had any intention to wear blackface for her KKW Beauty photos and said that she was really tan on the day of the photoshoot.
"I would obviously never want to offend anyone. I used an amazing photographer and a team of people. I was really tan when we shot the images, and it might be that the contrast was off," Kim explained in an interview with The New York Times. "But I showed the image to many people, to many in the business. No one brought that to our attention. No one mentioned it."
Kim said that she and her team had made necessary changes to all KKW Beauty photos and vowed that it would never happen again. "Of course, I have the utmost respect for why people might feel the way they did. But we made the necessary changes to that photo and the rest of the photos," she stated. "We saw the problem, and we adapted and changed right away. Definitely I have learned from it."
When asked why she didn't start her own beauty line sooner, Kim answered, "I had a line with my sisters, and we were in a licensing deal and a partnership, and it took time to get out of that." However, she later felt that she should do something on her own.
The mother-of-two added that her line would be very different from Kylie Jenner's. "Yes, [Kylie and I are] working with the same manufacturer. I've had a relationship with them for a while actually," Kim said. "But the lines, they're totally separate. We don't really talk to each other about what we're doing and what our formulas are."
