Her rhetorical query — are we nonetheless asking about ladies in the event that they’re pregnant — is a sound one. Sadly, it appears, the reply is sure, regardless of a broader cultural shift away from this line of questioning in formal interviews with media shops. With regards to different folks’s our bodies, the phrases of fundamental respect typically dictate that questions and commentary of any form — constructive, adverse, or seemingly benign — are by no means kosher. Why be nosy and impolite when you could possibly merely thoughts your corporation? 

However Kardashian’s social media change raises one other query, too — one with murkier moral implications. In a @commentsbycelebs thread discussing her clap again, some argued the character of Kardashian’s movie star makes discourse about her physique honest recreation. “While it is an inappropriate query, this household actually monetized their our bodies after which they marvel why folks ask when their figures change,” one commenter wrote. 

Certainly, Kourtney and different members of the Kar-Jenner clan have made tens of millions by selling and normalizing unrealistic magnificence requirements, then promoting merchandise and procedures to individuals who need what they’ve. On the backs of their followers, the Kardashians have turned the endless pursuit of unattainable bodily beliefs right into a billion-dollar household enterprise. 

Maybe, then, it isn’t so easy to parse when and if Kourtney Kardashian’s physique ought to be mentioned. However I am guessing this may not be the final time we strive.

This story initially appeared on glamour.com. 

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