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Kim Kardashian has one big regret from her past photo shoots.
In a new interview with the Call Her Daddy podcast on Wednesday, Oct. 15, the 44-year-old reality star was asked by host Alex Cooper if there was ever something she did that she should have gotten “cancelled” for but didn’t.
“I think I’m gonna get canceled if I say it,” the mother of four said with a laugh. “Like, I don’t know who approved this, and I don’t know who thought that this was normal, this narrative. But I did a photo shoot with Justin Bieber, and he was 16 years old. And I don’t know how old I was.”
The 2010 shoot was for Elle magazine and featured a 16-year-old Biebs and a 29-year-old Kardashian flirting and running around on the beach together. The Kardashians star likened the shoot to the iconic 1967 Dustin Hoffman film The Graduate, with her in a Mrs. Robinson-esque role.
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“Nothing ever weird was obviously happening, and like, I just think that was like an odd concept and why none of us thought that that was odd at the time,” she added. “But now we look back and I’m like, that would have not been the most appropriate thing.”
Kardashian added that Bieber’s family and even his then-girlfriend, Selena Gomez, were on the set at the time of the shoot.
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“His girlfriend was there, his parents were,” she said. “I mean, it was like nothing creepy at all. But I look back and I’m like, that’s the one thing that I feel like, you know, he’s like a good dear friend of ours and the whole family, but like, who thought that that was a good idea?”
In a video for the shoot in question, Kardashian explained that she met Bieber at the White House Correspondents Dinner and was keen to set him up on a date with her then-14-year-old sister, Kendall Jenner.
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“He had responded in an interview saying that, ‘No, he didn’t want to be hooked up with my sister, he liked me,’ or something silly like that, it was a joke,” Kardashian recalled at the time. “I don’t get how people would think that that’s serious. Sorry, Biebs.”
The “Sorry” singer went on to marry Hailey Bieber, a close personal friend of Jenner’s, and regularly spends time with the Kardashian-Jenner clan.
