KIM Kardashian has been accused of blackfishing in a recent post that was quickly deleted from her account.
The Kardashians star recently took to Instagram with a carousel post to share old photos with her followers.
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The second photo showed Kim, 42, wearing a sheer dress while sitting on a couch and holding onto her cell phone.
She had her long, bleached blonde hair parted in the middle and styled to be sleek and pin-straight.
The Hulu star had on a dramatic face of makeup that included a dark smokey eye and bold eyelashes.
Her glamorous dress featured a low-back design and midsection cutouts, allowing her to show off some skin.
However, some fans believe her body and face appeared darker than normal and accused her of blackfishing.
The term refers to someone altering their appearance through hairstyling or makeup to appear Black or another race.
The abruptly-deleted post was captured and shared on Reddit, where viewers have been giving their opinions on Kim’s questionable skin tone in the shot.
“Which race(s) is she pretending to be?” the original user wrote alongside the photo.
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“She genuinely looks like a WOC..She needs to stop this s**t. It’s f**king deranged,” one upset fan wrote.
A second said: “I’m seeing Ciara or Nene, it’s uncanny.”
“Yep she looks black,” a third wrote.
A fourth commented: “From a non california women.. she definitely looks like a women of colour. That’s not just a dark spray tan.”
“Ngl she looks great but also omg imagine just changing into a POC for clout when you want then switching back to white passing when you’re bored of it lmaoo,” wrote a fifth.
A sixth replied: “Like girl it’s okay to just be white. What makes me itch is she will darken her skin tone while trying to lighten her mixed race kids.”
“It’s all so f**king gross,” a seventh said.
“Here it looks ljke she was trying to pass off as creole. Or Trinidadian. The way they blatantly blackface and never get any real backlash is irritating,” said another.
NOT THE FIRST TIME
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum has faced similar accusations through the years.
Last year, she faced similar backlash over a resurfaced ad in which she was unrecognizable.
Fans resurfaced an old photo of Kim from an ad campaign for her brand KKW Beauty, noting how dark her skin looked in the snap.
In the picture, which was posted on Reddit, the Kardashians star has her hands on her head, with her jet black hair hanging down either side.
One commenter noted how different the reality star looks, writing, “I refuse to believe” the photo was of Kim.
Another replied, saying that she “looks like Toni Braxton from the 90s!”
Earlier in the year, fans noted how much darker she looked than her then-boyfriend Pete Davidson.
After going Instagram official, the pair were seen out holding hands while out for a date night.
On Reddit, fans questioned the mom of four’s tan, which appeared to be applied.
One fan took pity on her clothes: “She’s going to destroy some sheets and towels with that spray tan. The bra and undies she has on will never be the same.”
Another compared the reality queen to another famous true-life show: “Kim’s Jersey Shore era.”
OH NO, KHLO
Just a few weeks ago, Kim’s sister Khloe, 39, was also accused of trying to appear a different race or ethnicity.
A grab from a recent episode of The Kardashians was posted on Reddit where critics picked it apart and accused her of blackfishing.
Several commenters noted that Khloe, 38, looked significantly tanner in the scenes than she typically does.
They asked: “Who does she think she is?”
The person who posted the grab went on to claim that when the Good American founder “does somewhere to interact with people of color she dresses” in a different way than her normal style.
Another commenter pointed out her “privilege,” writing: “Classic case of privileged white woman dressing up in casual streetwear because she wants to seem relatable to all the cultured moms soldiering through life in the ghetto. I’d love to see Khloe last five minutes in the real world where moms struggle and grind every day to raise their kids.
“The audacity that she’s using that as an aesthetic.”
Khloe and Kim were visiting women in a shelter in the scene in question.
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