Kim Says There Won't Be a Kardashian Christmas Card This Year

Did the Grinch get to the Kardashian-Jenner house early this year?

Kim Kardashian recently revealed that her family won't be doing their (in)famous Christmas card for 2014. Citing what basically boils down to busy schedules, the newlywed star didn't seem to be too upset about the break from tradition – though she didn't sound too thrilled about it either.

"We're a little confused this year because we ran out of time. I think this is the first year we're not doing our card," Kim admitted to Glamour before explaining that her family has already come up with an alternative plan. "What we're going to do is, at our Christmas party we have this amazing photo booth so we're going to do like a compilation and do a New Year's card."

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But how can they be sure they're organized enough that they get all the necessary pics once the party starts going?

"We're all going to get together at the beginning of the party and make sure that we all get photos together and do this whole thing. So that's kind of what we came up with, but we're kind of sad, we just couldn't get it together," North West's mom mused.

All that aside, however, Kim still hinted that there may be more behind the lack of holiday card than only the lack of time. "And where is everyone?" Kim asked. "Y'know, this one doesn't want to be in it, this one does want to be in it, so who knows…"

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The 2012 Kardashian Christmas card (Nick Saglimbeni)

 

In the last few years, themes for the card have included a sexy menswear-inspired shoot tinted in dramatic blue tones shot by Nick Saglimbeni, an all-white party pic complete with silver confetti (also Saglimbeni), and a ransacked carnival scene shot by David LaChapelle.

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In addition to chatter about the actual image, though, there's always plenty of speculation about which members from the extended Kardashian-Jenner brood make the cut, and which don't. In 2012, despite the fact that Kanye West and Kim had been inseparable for months, the rapper was not included in the pic (though that may have been his choice), and in 2013, Kanye, Scott Disick, Lamar Odom, and Rob Kardashian were all notably absent (Bruce, however, did make the cut).
While we can't be sure exactly why the always-busy family is suddenly too busy to get this project to materialize, we do know one thing: In the past, they've overcome scheduling conflicts with Photoshop. Last November, Khloé confessed that they regularly use the digital tool to get everyone together. "We pretend that we're always together," she said. "The power of cameras and Photoshop."

Apparently, amount of editing magic can get the Kardashian Kristmas card off the ground this year. Still, we can't help but wonder why they don't just use Kim's Paper magazine cover shot and call it a day.

Ne-Yo's Voice Gives Woman Seizures, Causes Her to Vomit Uncontrollably

Ne-Yo surely wants to move people with his music, but not like this. British mother Zoe Fennessy recently revealed to The Daily Mail that the R&B crooner’s music causes her to have violent seizures. 

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The 26-year-old had brain surgery to remove her left temporal lobe in June in the hopes of fixing the problem, but still suffers from crippling seizures, which cause her to freeze and vomit the moment she hears the singer’s voice. 

Fennessy was diagnosed as an epileptic in 2008, but had her first music-induced seizure in 2011 when she heard Ne-Yo’s hit “Give Me Everything.” To scientifically prove that his voice was the cause of her fits, Fennessy was forced to be monitored by doctors while listening to Ne-Yo’s music. 

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She was soon diagnosed with a rare illness which causes musicogenic seizures. Fennessy has to wear headphones when she goes into stores in case the singer’s songs are playing. 
“If he ever releases a greatest hits album, it’s going to be a nightmare,” she told the Daily Mail. “Whenever I hear the first few beats of the song, I have to drop whatever I am doing and run. I don’t dislike Ne-Yo or his music. It just dislikes me unfortunately.” 
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Fennessy acknowledges that her condition can be comical, but it’s also a painful reality in her own life. 

“People might think it is funny — and I can laugh at it myself — but it has taken over my life. It's ruined my life,” she said.

NO FILTER: An Afternoon With Kim Kardashian

NO FILTER: An Afternoon With Kim Kardashian

photos by Jean-Paul Goude / text by Amanda Fortini

Kim wears Mikimoto necklaces and earrings, customized dress and vintage gloves throughout

If you know nothing else about Kim Kardashian, you know that she is very, very famous. Some would say that's all you need to know. At press time, she has 25 million Twitter followers, about a million less than Oprah Winfrey and nearly 5 million more than CNN Breaking News. Her Instagram account, where she is a prolific purveyor of selfies, is the site's third most popular. You can't walk through a supermarket without glimpsing her on a multitude of tabloids whose headlines holler about her relationships, her parenting style and the vicissitudes of her ample curves. But she has also graced the covers of highbrow fashion bibles like W and Vogue; with her now-husband, Kanye West, she appeared on the latter above the hashtag #worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple, creating a furor that made it perhaps the #worldsmostcontroversialcover.

Her millions-strong popularity and inescapable media presence have made her grist for think pieces galore. She is variously seen as a feminist-entrepreneur-pop-culture-icon or a late-stage symptom of our society's myriad ills: narcissism, opportunism, unbridled ambition, unchecked capitalism. But behind all the hoopla, there is an actual woman -- a physical body where the forces of fame and wealth converge. Who isn't at least a tad curious about the flesh that carries the myth?

Unlike most people, she looks exactly the same in person as she does in photographs or on television, with one exception: she is smaller than she appears in images, with tiny, almost doll-like ears and feet and hands. Everything else about her seems amplified, tumescent. Her black hair is thicker than any you have ever seen, her lips fuller, her giant Bambi-eyes larger, their whites whiter, and the lashes that frame them longer. If some of this is the result of artificial enhancement -- does anyone else have eyelashes that resemble miniature feather dusters? -- none of it seems obviously ersatz. But that's not to say it looks real, either. She is like a beautiful anime character come to life.

As soon as she arrives at the hostess podium of the Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, where we meet for our interview, a young fan who appears to be in her late teens or early twenties accosts her. The fan has been running to catch (keep up with?) Kardashian; she brings with her a breeze. "Will you take a selfie with me, Kim?" she pants. (This is what fans asks the High Priestess of Instagram -- autographs are so last century.) She obliges, leaning in for the picture and striding away almost before I can blink. "She's gonna post it," Kardashian says wryly. "I bet it's posted right now." Later, she will tell me that she's "not really a filter person," and that she doesn't generally use them when she publishes her many selfies. As she talks, I notice that her skin, which is the golden color of whiskey, is free of wrinkles, crow's feet, laugh lines, blemishes, freckles, moles, under-eye circles, scars, errant eyebrow hairs or human flaws of any kind. It's like she comes with a built-in filter of her own.

With its enveloping green leather booths and twinkling white garden lights, the Polo Lounge is a setting that lends itself to intimacy. Kardashian, who is wearing a monochromatic champagne-colored ensemble (Margiela bodysuit, Chloé silk pants, Lanvin silk coat), gives off a cozy vibe herself. She leans forward while she talks, resting her cheek in the palm of her hand as though she's chatting with her closest girlfriend. She tells me that the Kardashian clan is currently a week into filming season 10 of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which she has called "the best family movie ever," never mind the rampant speculation, in early 2013, that season 9 would be her last. I'm surprised to hear that they still enjoy the process, since your typical American family would no longer be on speaking terms. "We're kind of obsessed with each other," she explains.

Today, a day off, she spent at a pumpkin patch with West, whom she repeatedly calls Kanye -- she clearly enjoys saying his name -- and their 16-month old daughter, North. They arrived at the farm unbothered by photographers, a rarity in the circus that is her life ("literally every single day there's about ten cars of paparazzi literally waiting outside our homes"). It wasn't long, however, before the paparazzi had surrounded them. "I couldn't really pick out our pumpkins, and [North] couldn't really enjoy it," she says. After a moment, perhaps concerned that she has come perilously close to complaining about her fame, she adds matter-of-factly: "You just have to not care. You just have to say, 'This is our life, and it is what it is.'" Her delivery is Zen-like, almost affectless, as it is on the show. "All my friends tell me the world could be coming to an end, and I'm always so calm," she says, opening a packet of Equal. She empties its contents into a glass of passion fruit iced tea, then fastidiously bites granules of sweetener off her manicured nails.

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The rap on Kim Kardashian is that she has done nothing to merit her fame. But the longer I steep myself in the ambience of her pleasantly languid manner and hologram-perfect looks, the more facile this charge begins to seem. Of course, she has cannily leveraged that fame to build, with her sisters, a beauty-industrial complex, which includes a clothing line, a makeup line, a line of tanning products and seven perfumes. (A collection of hair care implements and styling products will debut in the spring.) Her mobile app, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, in which players climb their way to A-List status under Kardashian's tutelage, has earned over $43 million since its debut in June.

Yet her perceived lack of accomplishment is also, perhaps, an accomplishment in itself. Kardashian seems to know instinctively that, as Andy Warhol once observed, "When you just see somebody on the street, they can really have an aura. But then when they open their mouth, there goes the aura." Take the stream of small faux-confidences that she offers during the interview. They reveal very little yet foster a sense of closeness. She tells me that she is "obsessed with apps" but, when I ask her to name one, she replies, "I like all different apps." Of her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries, one of her rare missteps that actually left a footprint, she says: "It's just one of those life lessons that you have to learn, and it's OK." Her behavior suggests that the key to total ubiquity is giving up all of one's verbal edges and sharp angles (while occasionally tossing out a memorable visual flare: a sex tape, say, or a nude photo shoot).

Social media has created a new kind of fame, and Kardashian is its paragon. It is a fame whose hallmark is agreeable omnipresence, which resembles a kind of evenly spread absence, soothing, tranquil and unobjectionable. There's an argument to be made that Kardashian has been recorded and viewed more often than any other personage in history, and while she has certainly had her awkward moments (posting a vampire facial on Instagram, announcing that she wanted to buy a stroller that complemented her unborn baby's skin color), she has also never made a truly ruinous gaffe, been caught in a Britney Spears-style public meltdown or sallied forth looking less than photogenic. As she puts it, "There's nothing we can do that's not documented, so why not look your best, and amazing?"

To mere mortals who occasionally visit the grocery store in yoga pants, her willpower and self-discipline are a marvel. Imagine being filmed and photographed constantly, yet never saying anything seriously controversial or appearing unkempt. The effort involved seems torturous, impossible. And yet, though her life requires work of a sort -- roughly two hours of hair and makeup each day, regular meetings for her assorted businesses, wardrobe fittings, photo shoots, 5:00 a.m. workouts -- you don't get the sense that she is hiding or suppressing her true, private self. "I think you've seen every side of me on my show," she says, popping a piece of pound cake into her mouth.

We're accustomed to our performers having onstage and backstage registers, but for her there is no division between the two. This is, indeed, the definition of a reality star. She's not performing, that is -- at least not visibly. She is being, and being is her act. Her appeal derives from her uncanny consistency, as does that of her show. It's relaxing to watch the sisters sprawl on each other's beds and talk about nothing, to see them discuss constipation cures or their preferred way to eat Nilla Wafers. Like Warhol's screen tests, Keeping Up With the Kardashians has a disarming purity. It invites us to glory in its stars' mundanity, which permits us to enjoy our own.

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"My makeup artist said to me the other day, 'You haven't taken a selfie in a while,'" Kardashian says, as the afternoon slides into evening and the light turns magic-hour blue. To remedy this, she posted one of herself in full makeup and a white terrycloth robe, with the literal caption, "It's been a while since I've taken a selfie." It garnered more than a half-a-million likes. Selfies have been on her mind lately. She is putting together a collection of her oeuvre, called Selfish, to be published by Rizzoli in the spring. She has spent hours sifting through her vast, meticulously organized digital archive. "The book company edited them, and I was like, 'Wait a minute! There are like 300 here that you're not adding!'" she says. I remark that I am surprised she can remember and differentiate among a bunch of near-identical photos of her face. She can, she says; she is sorting them chronologically, dating them by what she wore to specific events. "I know what I wore, what accessories I wore, where I was, who I was with," she tells me. "I remember everything." Her mind, it seems, traps the minutiae most of us forget. For her, though, it's not minutiae; it's her life, and her life is her career.

I ask her whether Kim Kardashian would exist without social media. "I don't think so..." she says, slowly, then reconsiders. "I don't think social media was that heavy when we started our show, but I think we really evolved with social media." The next day, as I scroll through Instagram, I come across a photograph of her, taken the night of our interview, wearing the champagne getup at a restaurant in Venice. I also find two photos of North toddling around the pumpkin patch in a tiny fringed cape and Baby Vans. One of these pictures has more than a million likes. "I love sharing my world with people," Kardashian tells me, and I detect no hint of falseness. "That's just who I am." No more, no less.

Styling by Alex Aikiu
Hair by Laurent Philippon at Calliste Agency
Makeup by Mario Dedivanovic
Manicure by Tatiana Sery at Aurelien Agency
Photographer assistants: Philippe Baumann, Franck Joyeux and Nicolas Premoli
Digital imaging: Helene Chauvet for Kilato
Digital: Christian Horvath For D-Factory
Producer: Virginie Laguens for Belleville Hills
Assistant producer: Gråce Salemme
Styling Assistants: Vanessa Ntamack and Ben Depinoy

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When J.Law and company had their private, nude photos hacked and leaked onto the Internet a few months ago, there was some serious anger. Not so much anger at the criminals who hacked into these women's accounts, violating their basic rights -- that's actually the kind of anger I can get behind. No, the anger that surfaced was toward the victims. Oh sure, it was couched in "concern about Internet safety," but the more honest criticism sounded like: "If you don't want nude photos leaked, don't take nude photos." Right. Like if you don't want to be strangled, don't have a neck.
Interestingly, criticism was mostly a by women, about women kind of thing. Women don't like it when naked ladies go mainstream.
And now, we have Kim Kardashian and the full frontal heard round the world. Oh yeah, everyone's panties are in a tightly-wound bunch, so to speak. It is hard to consume any social media without hearing how "nasty" and "disgusting" Kim Kardashian is. Again, most of the anger seems to be coming from women.
I am not a fan of KK, but I found the picture both interesting and funny. Naked women don't make me angry, but with all the hoo-hah, I thought maybe I was missing something, so I considered the criticism....
"She needs to respect her body."
First of all, she doesn't NEED to do anything. She is a grown woman, not breaking any laws. Secondly, I think she is respecting her body. She is not talking smack about it, she is not harming it, and she seems to be celebrating it with pride.
"What about the children!!?"
Yes, with the ubiquity of this photo on social media, it is very possibly going to be seen by young eyes. Then again. it is just a woman without clothes. This should really not be scarring. I also heard a mother angry because Kim Kardashian was now a terrible role model. I can honestly say this photo did nothing to change Kim Kardashian's status as a role model in my eyes. If you want a role model for the little ones you love, try Eleanor Roosevelt or Malala Yousafzai.
"She is a mom!!!"
Right, because when you become a mom, that is all you are. Not a celebrity, entrepreneur, lover or owner of an ass. Again, the picture is not one of KK ripping the wings off bugs; she is not doing anything harmful in these photos. When her kid sees these one day, he will likely roll his eyes and say "Mommmm!" End scene.
"It's plastic!"
There is a lot of speculation about surgical enhancements that may have contributed to the striking nature of the photo. I don't know if it is the case or not, and it is really none of my business. People have uniquely shaped bodies and some chose to sculpt their bodies with silicone. Again, no puppies are dying here.
"It is Photoshopped!"
Yes, I am sure it is. That is how magazine art is created. The lighting and makeup are also part of the art of the picture. Kim wasn't just walking around in a sequined gown in her kitchen when she noticed a plain brown backdrop and thought, Hmmm.... I am going to pour myself a glass of champagne.
It is an illusion; a fantasy. Photoshop is a creative tool. Let's assume all magazine covers are Photoshopped and move on.
"She is doing it for attention!"
Yes, that is what celebrities do.
"It is not classy. It is just trashy."
I get that you feel that way, so you should certainly not pose nude for magazines or balance things on your butt -- but please, just zip it. Is it classy to make negative comments about a person's body or her choice?
"She is just doing it for money. Like she needs it!"
I don't know what Kim Kardashian needs or does not need, but I do know that I would rather pose for pictures where I was compensated and had a choice than have photos stolen from me and published without my consent.
"She is a vapid, no-talent reflection of society's celebrity-mongering."
Maybe. But here we all are -- talking about her.
So, since I have not heard a compelling argument about why I should be grossed out by a naked woman with a big ass in a magazine, I am left to speculate about why many women find this so unsettling.
Is it because we feel insecure when we look at perfectly lit, stunning bodies? Is it because we get jealous when others -- maybe our partners -- covet them? Are we resentful because we have to play within the confines of decorum, while the likes of Kim Kardashian do as they please under perfect Hollywood lighting? Do we hate "sluts," or anyone who gives "slutty messages"? It this because sexual freedom is not something we think we can achieve? Do we think women who seek attention are dangerous?

Remember When Kim Kardashian Cried After Her Naked W Magazine Cover and Called It ''Porn''?

Man, what a difference four years makes.
Kim Kardashian wasn't always so comfortable being photographed completely nude in magazine spreads.
In fact, the E! reality star freaked out when she realized that her bare breasts and booty were on the pages of W magazine in November of 2010.
So let's rewind it back a few years and relive the moment that Kim reacted to the provocative shots during an episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York.
VIDEO: Behind-the-scenes of Kim's naked Paper mag shoot
Surrounded by her sisters Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian, Kim begins sobbing as she dials her publicist to ream her about the entire situation.
"I'm so f--king mad right now. She promised me I would be covered with artwork on top of me. It was so uncomfortable. I'm really honestly freaking out."
"It really pisses me off, this is serious porn," she says on the phone. "They weren't going to show my ass crack or my nipples. This is full f--king porn."
Kim continues, "I'm never getting naked again. I feel so taken advantage of. I don't want people to be like all she's good for is being naked." (Never say never, right?)
PICS: Kim's butt gets meme'd!
Then, in a separate clip, Kim receives a call from Kris Jenner who does tries to calm her daughter down as best she can.
"The only thing that you can do is just own it and hold your head up and say this is the most fabulous thing ever," Kris tells her.
Despite being upset about the magazine images, Kim finds some silver lining with the nude pics.
"I mean I definitely learned my lesson. I'm definitely not getting naked or taking my clothes off ever again. I don't care if it's like Vogue. Well maybe if it's like Vogue."
…or Paper.

Tinashe Announces "Aquarius" Tour

tinashe has just announced that she will be having a new tour in the month of December titled after her album "aquarius."
Will tinashe be in your city?
Check out the tour dates below.

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Dec. 5 – Los Angeles, CA – The Forum (Cali Christmas)
Dec. 11 – Rochester, NY – Blue Cross Arena (Jingle Jam)
Dec. 12 – Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot Ballroom
Dec. 13 – Toronto, ON – Tattoo Queen West
Dec. 15 – New York, NY – Highline Ballroom
Dec. 16 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Dec. 17 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
Dec. 18 – Baltimore, MD
Dec. 19 – Orlando, FL

Tyga Reveals Release Date For "The Gold Album"

Today, tyga is putting the promo for The gold album: 18th Dynasty in high gear as he announced a new release date for the album. Taking to twitter, the YMCMB rapper says the album is going to arrive right before Christmas, on December 23rd