Kim Kardashian has done a lot of controversial things, but there’s only one she regrets: participating in a sultry photo shoot with Justin Bieber when he was just 16 years old.
As a guest on the latest episode of Call her daddy podcast released on Wednesday (October 15), the reality star grimaced a bit when host Alex Cooper asked her to name something she did that she should have been “cancelled” for. “I know what it is and I think I’ll get canceled if I say it,” Kardashian responded nervously.
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“I don’t know who approved of this – or who thought it was normal, this narrative – but I did a photo shoot with Justin Bieber, and he was 16,” she continued. “I don’t know how old I was, and it was like… his girlfriend was there, his parents. It wasn’t anything scary at all, but that’s the only thing I feel: he’s a good friend to us and to the whole family, but, like, who thought it was a good idea?”
The photo session in question took place for She magazine in 2010, when the Skims mogul was 29 years old. It was supposed to be inspired by the 1967 film The graduate and found Kardashian and the pop star holding hands and looking into each other’s eyes on a beach in the Bahamas.
Other poses showed Bieber kissing Kardashian on the cheek and the latter sensually brushing a rose against the former’s face.
“I must have been 30,” Kardashian mused. “Nothing weird was happening. I just think it was a weird concept, and that’s why none of us thought it was weird at the time… but now I look back and I’m like, ‘That wouldn’t have been the most appropriate thing.’
Since then, the businesswoman and Bieber have come a long way. The singer has remained close to the Kardashian family through his wife, model Hailey Bieber, who is good friends with Kendall Jenner. Justin is also now a father to a one-year-old baby named Jack Blues.
And although Kardashian has stirred up debate on the Internet several times since then, she says she has no regrets. “But I’ve never really done anything to get canceled,” she said on the podcast. “I stand by everything…I never said anything crazy, I never did anything crazy.”
Watch Kardashian’s full interview on Call her daddy above.
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