It’s wild living every day in this world. Each morning we wake, and our little noggins are tasked with assessing what’s real and what’s fake, what to take seriously and what to dismiss as a ruse or a sales pitch. There are mysteries that we’ll never solve, sure, but we have to trundle on, trusting our own sense of things. That’s our burden, our wont. And so it’s nice when someone just lays it all out there. They say, “Hey, here’s me. Do with it what you will,” and so one little mystery among many is taken off your plate for the day. What a kindness.
Chaney Jones, a woman unto herself and not just a Kim Kardashian look-alike who is the latest to play “muse” for Kanye “Ye” West, is here to provide some clarity about herself amid a lot of supposition and conjecture. Over the weekend, she parroted the likes of Us Weekly or Heavy.com with her own “5 things to know about me” feature posted to her Instagram Story. Here are some of those things: She’s of “European, French, German, West African, Nigerian & Ghanian” descent. She has a 4.0 GPA in her counseling master’s program, a degree she’s getting while also the COO of a behavioral health organization that she launched. She’s from Delaware.
And her curriculum vitae includes the fact that she bought her butt. A BBL—Brazilian butt lift—is a procedure that gives you that high, round butt that resembles Kardashian’s. Her big reveal is seemingly a response to commenters who compare her to Ye’s ex-wife.
“I think I was 20 here. This was before my BBL,” Jones, who is now 24, wrote over an Instagram Story post. “Same face, same nose lol I’ve never been in denial about surgery and to answer everyone’s questions yes I had a BBL but I’ve always been thick before surgery.”
Isn’t it interesting how, in revealing what’s manufactured about yourself, you can become more real to others? Funny place, this world! No time like the present to throw back the curtains and let the light in.
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