As a tabloid staple for the last decade, Kim Kardashian has become a master of media spin. The reality star is an expert at changing the pop culture narrative around herself and her family through strategically released storylines and images via her TV show, social media, and photos taken by her personal paparazzo. So it should come as no surprise that after weeks of divorce-rumors and her husband Kanye West’s fraught approach to getting his name on the presidential ballot this fall, the reality star has unleashed her own campaign of mass distraction in the form of an arsenal of bikinis.
Kim was first spotted on the beaches of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Sunday sporting a neon pink string bikini and waist-length french braids while doing a photoshoot for a new KKW Beauty campaign. When not posing for the camera, the almost-billionaire strutted along the shore while staring out towards the horizon. She also periodically checked her cell phone, ate an ice cream sundae and, at one point, broke out into a free-spirited cartwheel for the cameras.
On Wednesday, she once again took to the sea, this time hitting the beaches of Malibu, California not far from where she and her siblings have been filming the next season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. For part two of her two-piece campaign, Kim donned a brown snakeskin string bikini which she paired with large, silver hoop earrings, a butt-grazing mohawk braid, and a tall glass of iced tea.
This myriad of bikini-clad images come after rumors the couple’s relationship is on the rocks because of West’s now-deleted tweet that he was trying to divorce his wife of six years. The rapper’s tweet rampages prompted Kim to urge people to have empathy for her husband in a social media statement in which she directly addressed his bipolar disorder publicly for the first time. They also come in the midst of Kanye’s beleaguered presidential campaign finding a way to get on three more states’ ballots, despite a couple of close brushes with electoral fraud.
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