Kim Kardashian has done a lot of controversial things, but there’s only one that she regrets: participating in a sensual photo shoot with Justin Bieber when he was only 16.
While guesting on the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast posted Wednesday (Oct. 15), the reality star winced a little bit when host Alex Cooper asked her to name something she’s done that she should have been “canceled” for. “I know what it is, and I think I’m going to get canceled if I say it,” Kardashian replied nervously.
“I don’t know who approved this — or who thought this was normal, this narrative — but I did a photo shoot with Justin Bieber, and he was 16 years old,” she continued. “I don’t know how old I was, and it was like … his girlfriend was there, his parents. It was nothing creepy at all, but that’s the one thing I feel like — he’s a good dear friend of ours and the whole family, but, like, who thought that that was a good idea?”
The photo shoot in question took place for Elle magazine in 2010, when the Skims mogul was 29. It was supposed to be inspired by the 1967 movie The Graduate and found Kardashian and the pop star holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes on a beach in the Bahamas.
Other poses featured Bieber kissing Kardashian on the cheek and the latter sensually brushing a rose against the former’s face.
“I must have been 30 years old,” Kardashian reflected. “Nothing ever weird was happening. I just think that was an odd concept, and why none of us thought that was odd at the time … but now I look back, and I’m like, ‘That would have not been the most appropriate thing.’”
The businesswoman and Bieber have come a long way since then. The singer has stayed close to the Kardashian family through his wife, model Hailey Bieber, who’s good friends with Kendall Jenner. Justin is also now a father to a 1-year-old baby named Jack Blues.
And while Kardashian has stirred up internet discourse multiple times since then, she says she has no regrets. “But I’ve never really done anything to be canceled,” she said on the podcast. “I stand by everything … I’ve never said anything crazy, I’ve never done anything crazy.”
Watch Kardashian’s full interview on Call Her Daddy above.
