Khloé Kardashian is in her unfiltered era.
Kardashian, 41, responded to rumors that she “Photoshops every picture” she posts on social media during the Thursday, July 17, episode of her “Khloé in Wonderland” podcast, confirming that she usually doesn’t — at least, not anymore.
“There was a time that I definitely did,” the Good American founder said. “There was a time that I was around some people that would make me feel like I needed to. I also think it was the era too. I felt like a lot of people were Photoshopping or heavily Photoshopping more than they do now.”
Kardashian continued, “I do feel like there was a time that we all just got consumed in this filter lifestyle and we couldn’t see ourselves without a filter. And there’s definitely days that I’m like, ugh, I need a filter. Don’t feel good about myself. But I’m on video. And I do like myself better in video than stills.”
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Kardashian admitted that she doesn’t think she’s the “most photogenic” person, but she will often “take 500 photos to get the one that I like.”
“That’s OK. I’m allowed to do that. But I will say there was a time that I heavily photoshopped,” she added.
Reflecting on the time when she Photoshopped her pictures, Kardashian joked that she looked like a “cartoon character” in many of the snaps.
“It’s humiliating that I thought that was even a version of myself,” she said.
“I feel bad that I thought I needed to look like that,” Kardashian continued. “But I was around people who were all doing that. And if they took my photo, they would make me look that way before giving it to me. And then I would think that’s how I looked. And if I got paparazzied, I’d be like, ‘I don’t look like that. I look like this photo.’ And I really had to reprogram my mind to be like, ‘OK, we have to lay off the filters. This isn’t real. That’s not how I look. And I don’t want to look like that.’ It was a strange time.”
Kardashian concluded that she used to be “consumed in the filter world and having my face look a way that it just wasn’t.”
As for how she gets good photos for social media these days, Kardashian said it boils down to “good lighting.”
“I definitely have more controlled photos, like good lighting, and I might take a bunch to get the ones I like. But I don’t have to photoshop every photo,” she said.
The mom of two, who shares kids True, 7, and Tatum, 2, with ex Tristan Thompson, has been accused by fans of using Photoshop a handful of times in the past. In April 2022, Kardashian admitted that her April 2021 photos of True at Disneyland were Photoshopped.
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“Welllppp I f***ed this one up. Anyways … let’s focus on something else. Our show, [The Kardashians], airs in a few days,” she tweeted at the time.
Prior to that, in 2016, Kardashian opened up to Chelsea Handler about why she loved the FaceTune app, calling it “life-changing” and “the only way to live.”
“It’s not real, you are presenting to the world what you want them to believe you are. It’s amazing,” she said on Chelsea Does at the time. “I think our society nowadays is so caught up on getting validation from the social world that no one really knows, so they post these things.”
