Chloe Moretz throws more shade at Kim Kardashian for her ‘girl-on-girl hate’
This is the second unflattering magazine cover for Chloe Grace Moretz in as many days. Dear mag editors: figure out this young lady’s angles! And stop Photoshopping her face to this crazy degree. Chloe covers the new issues of InStyle UK (I covered that yesterday) and Glamour Mag to promote her role in Neighbors 2. Most of the conversation is about feminism and Kim Kardashian and selfies though. Back in March, Chloe tweeted some body-policing shade at Kim Kardashian after Kim posted a semi-nude selfie on her social media. Kim posing for or posting nude photos is nothing new, and I’m still bewildered by the fact that one stupid selfie caused so much “controversy.” Chloe already defended herself after the incident, saying that the claim that she was slut-shaming Kim was just “a very big, fiery button to hide behind.” In this Glamour interview, she says more words.
The type of celebrity who pushes her buttons: “One who appropriates bad gender stereotypes, appropriates a lot of exclusivity, is very rich and niche-y. Or someone who overtly tries to be normal, when that’s the opposite of who I know they are.”
Why she sent that tweet to Kim Kardashian: “I had just gotten off a plane from South Korea, I was incredibly jet-lagged, and I couldn’t take one more thing. I saw that photo, and I had to say something. That picture wasn’t linked to body confidence. It wasn’t a #BodyConfidence or #LoveWhoYouAre. It was done in a slightly voyeuristic light, which I felt was a little inappropriate for young women to see. … I would hate for young women to feel they need to post certain photos in order to gain likes, retweets, favorites, and male attention.… I wasn’t slut-shaming. It’s not about body shaming.
When Kim shaded her for not being famous enough: “I started laughing. I was at dinner with my family [when] I got the notification [on my phone]. I look at it and I go, “Oh my God. She responded.” My mom took the most offense to it because it was girl-on-girl hate and Kim didn’t come back with an educated response on body confidence. It was aggressive, and also it was incorrect. I don’t have 45 million followers or a TV show that follows my life. But people know who I am. I pride myself on having opinions, and I don’t express them in snarky ways toward people.
When Kim said that she’s empowered by her nude selfies: “I think that was interesting. I wish that it had come out earlier. It was a great message; it was just a little late.”
Why she posts her own bikini photos: “I do it because it’s a body-confidence thing. I posted one in Mexico. I felt good, and I was wearing a bikini on a beach. It wasn’t me sexualizing myself. It was with a beautiful background. When I posted it, I knew that there would be a lot of young women looking. So I made sure that it was tasteful…. I get called prudish.”
She says more about feminism and how now she understands that it’s all about equality, and when she was 13 years old she maybe thought feminism meant that you hated men. That part is uncontroversial. This conversation about Kim, selfies, empowerment and confidence is still nagging at me though. I know a lot of you are pro-Chloe and anti-Kim on this, but I honestly think that most of that is just a knee-jerk hatred of Kim, regardless of what she’s doing or why. Kim is an easy target, because she wants to be a target, and she loves being embroiled in social media scandals and controversies. But really, if you ignore the fact that this controversy is about someone most people loathe, Chloe’s argument makes no sense. She tried to shame Kim for posting a semi-nude photo because it wasn’t “linked to body confidence” and then complains about the voyeurism of the shot… a selfie Kim took in a mirror, and chose to post herself, of her own free will. Chloe’s argument boils down to “I didn’t like the photo, therefore she shouldn’t have posted it, but it’s totally fine when I post my own bikini shots.” Where does “every woman has the right to make her own choices about her body” come into play?
Photos courtesy of Glamour.
