"I don’t know if it’s the fact that my husband has voiced that sometimes too sexy is just overkill and he’s not comfortable with that."

"I listen to him and understand him. Still, at the end of the day, he always gives me the freedom to be and do what I want. But I have kind of had this awakening myself. I realized I could not even scroll through Instagram in front of my kids without full nudity coming up on my feed pretty much all the time. And I definitely contributed to that. I mean, one of my most iconic covers was the Paper magazine one, when I was all oiled up and ripping my dress off. I also did think, like, Okay, I’m here in the White House and then the next day I was posting, like, a crazy bikini selfie. And I was thinking, I hope they don’t see this. I have to go back there next week. I think I’m evolving to where I don’t feel the need to want to keep up. Not that I did it to feel like I had to keep up, but I guess I just don’t care as much anymore to want to take tons of photos in a thong bikini. I actually just want to lay out. I don’t care to take the time out of my day on vacation like I used to, where I’d pull up to the house and I’d see, This is a setup, this is an Instagram pic. Now this is a different setup. Oh, this place has so many different setups. This is going to be amazing. And now I’m just like, 'Let’s actually live in real time and enjoy it. If we happen to get a photo, great.'"

Said Kim Kardashian, asked about "dressing a little less sexy" and quoted in "In the 2010s, Fame Went Multi-Platform/Kim Kardashian West on life as a brand and her political awakening" (New York Magazine).

ADDED: It's funny that she speaking of "keeping up": "I don’t feel the need to want to keep up. Not that I did it to feel like I had to keep up..." This whole thing got started with the message to everybody else that we needed to be "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." It's a fascinating tell: She felt that she needed to keep up. Keep up with what? We were supposed to be keeping up with her. That says something about the emptiness and futility of the imagined race.

This makes me think of the "Caucus Race" in "Alice in Wonderland." The characters are all wet, and the Dodo says, "The best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race." The Dodo refuses to explain it other than to say "the best way to explain it is to do it."

First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ("the exact shape doesn't matter," it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no "One two, three, and away," but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out, "The race is over!" and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, "But who has won?"

Kim Kardashian is the Dodo, who started the race, which everyone did, however they could figure out, and now she is declaring the race is over. The way to keep up with the Kardashians now is too stop running — "Let's actually live in real time and enjoy it."

And who won? The Dodo's answer was:  "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes." And that's another story. Like the Dodo, Kim will not be giving you the means to enjoy your life in real time. If you want a prize for stopping trying to look like you're enjoying life massively, you're not getting it from Kim. In "Alice in Wonderland," the Dodo points to Alice as the one who will be giving out the prizes, and Alice had what she had, a box of comfits, enough to give one to everybody — except herself. For Alice to get a prize, the Dodo took the last thing in Alice's pocket — a thimble — then, handing it back to Alice, said: "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble."



The thimble is your tiny little life, which Kim urges you to accept.