Kim Kardashian ‘Shamed’ By Huge Flag Of Her Sex Tape As Kanye West Performs On Stage
As Kim Kardashian attended her husband’s, Kanye West’s, performance Saturday at Glastonbury Music Festival in Somerset, England, someone in the crowd had gone to plenty of trouble to get her attention and — as one commentator put it — “slut shame” the reality star.
The Glastonbury concertgoer had reproduced a particularly explicit image from the infamous sex tape made that showed Kardashian engaged in intimate relations with her boyfriend at the time, the rapper Ray J, whose real name is William Ray Norwood, Jr.
The concertgoer printed the image on a large flag, waving it over the heads of the Glastonbury festival crowd.
The sex tape was reportedly recorded in 2003, when Kim Kardashian was either 22- or 23-years-old and had not yet achieved any level of stardom. Somehow, the sexually graphic recording became public in 2007, at a time when Kardashian was becoming well-known mainly through her association with socialite Paris Hilton — who herself had become widely famous largely as the result of a leaked sex tape.
The Kim Kardashian sex tape played a significant role in her sudden rise to worldwide fame.
The fan at Glastonbury was determined to remind her of her past, though whether either Kardashian in the audience or West, on stage, were able to see the pornographic image on the flag is not certain.
Due to the flag’s content, the Inquisitr is unable to publish an image of the scene, but for those not offended by graphic sexual imagery, the flag can be seen in a Twitter post at this link.
While some fans reacted with glee at the shaming of Kim Kardashian, others felt that, regardless of how one feels about the reality star, flaunting such a private image crossed a line of taste.
“I hope someone has your regrets on a flag when you’re Achieving something great,” tweeted one fan, in response to the original Twitter post.
Another replied that Kardashian, West, and even Ray J are “more successful than you, and doesn’t care at all what you have to think or say.”
But blogger Tanya Edwards may have articulated the strongest objection to the flag, condemning the display as “slut shaming” that is “not okay.”
“People hate Kim and all of the Kardashians for many reasons… But the reason for hating Kim that pops up the most is the notion of the ‘fame-whore.’ The implication that Kim made her money and fame the wrong way—through her sexuality.”
Edwards continued, to defend Kim Kardashian against the sex tape flag, writing in a post at this link, “when someone takes it upon themselves to use a woman’s body and sexual acts against her — and against her husband — it tells all women that they have no ownership over their own bodies and that they should be shamed for having a sexual past.”
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