Megyn Kelly took aim at Kim Kardashian’s $4 billion shapewear brand Skims for being “all about sucking in your fat so you can look better.”
“That’s her contribution to the world,” Kelly said of Kardashian during her SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show” on Tuesday.
Kelly blasted Skims as a brand that “encourages young girls of America and around the world to look at themselves and have other people look at them instead of listen to them.”
“When you listen [to Kardashian] for 20 seconds, you’re revolted at the banal emptiness that is the shell of that woman,” Kelley said.
The 52-year-old podcast host used a scene from a recent episode of “The Kardashians” show on Hulu as an example of the curvy reality star’s “stomach-turning” obsession with her appearance.
In the clip, Kardashian goes to the DMV with her glam squad in tow to get an updated license photo taken.
The government agency’s office was seemingly left open late to accommodate the celeb, and she has the clerk take multiple headshots of her as stylists touch-up her with makeup and fine-tune her hair until she gets a license photo she’s pleased with.
Kelly — along with guest Jason Whitlock of BlazeTV — cringed at the scene.
“I can’t stand her for all sorts of reasons. And I feel like this incident…embodies exactly why I can’t stand this woman,” Kelly said, noting that her distaste for the TV star-turned-business mogul “is not personal.”
She continued: “If my daughter ever made such a deal about getting her driver’s license photo or her school photo, I’d say, ‘Knock it off, this is ridiculous.’”
“There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look attractive, but this is an obsession, this is bizarre,” Kelly added.
“I don’t think she’s evil, I just hate what she represents,” the podcast host told Whitlock, who likened Kardashian’s need to get the perfect license picture to “a mental illness.”
Whitlock did admit that he finds Kardashian attractive, though he said “her mentality is very unattractive.”
“When you think about it, it’s like, ‘How often does Kim Kardashian drive?’” Whitlock said. “She’s a billionaire. She gets driven around everywhere.”
As of last month, the second-eldest Kardashian sister received a $500 million windfall after the latest funding round for Skims raked in $270 million and lifted the company’s valuation to a whopping $4 billion.
Kardashian is Skims’ largest individual shareholder, with an approximate 35% stake in the company, according to Forbes.
That means the 42-year-old mother-of-four is in for a nine-figure payday — bringing her net worth to $1.7 billion.
Skims’ new valuation makes the company she co-founded with business partner Emma Grede in 2019 twice as valuable as legacy retailer Victoria’s Secret, which saw sales drop 6% last year and has a market cap of $1.6 billion.
Representatives for Skims did not immediately respond to noti.group’s request for comment.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
