Bethenny Frankel slams Kardashians’ ‘irresponsible’ and ‘reckless’ Photoshop use
Bethenny Frankel is coming after the Kardashian family members for their “destructive” Photoshop use.
The “Real Housewives of New York City” alum, 51, told TMZ on Thursday that the reality stars’ social media uploads are “not fair to women just trying to get by,” calling them “irresponsible” and “reckless.”
She added, “Moms feel insecure. … They don’t have time to do all this [Photoshop], nor they even know how to [with] the technology.”
Women “can’t compete” with Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and their sisters, Frankel went on to say.
“The more we see these images, the more we think they’re real. It becomes a false ideal,” she explained. “It’s not inspirational, it’s not aspirational. It creates eating disorders, insecurity, depression. It’s a serious thing.”
The former Bravo personality advised the Kardashians to “wear some makeup” and “be honest” about their plastic surgery instead of “outright lying” about filtering and Photoshopping.
“The playing field becomes not level,” she continued. “When you’re already billionaires, you have access to so much more … and it makes people feel terrible about themselves.”
Frankel’s comments come days after she showed her Instagram followers a comparison of what she “really looks like” versus a filtered photo.
“This is NOT what I look like…and you know that bc [sic] I’m not vain and show you the real me,” she captioned the bikini snaps Wednesday.“But if I posted a version of this every day you might start to believe that it might be.”
Frankel called social media “distorted,” concluding, “There is a line between making an effort to look pretty and an outright falsehood.”
Kim, 41, and more “Kardashians” stars have been called out for their Photoshop use in the past, with the KKW Beauty creator most recently under fire for appearing to remove her trapezius muscle in a poolside pic.
As for Khloé Kardashian, who previously admitted to editing daughter True into a Disneyland photo, the 38-year-old’s team worked hard to remove an airbrush-free bikini photo of her from the internet in April 2021.
Kylie, for her part, made headlines for having six toes in a doctored post pro moting her and Kim’s perfume collaboration in August 2019.
When Kourtney Kardashian was accused of a Photoshop faux pas in February, she claimed the photo was a “fan edit” and deleted it from her account.