The reality star was pelted with white powder as she walked the red carpet at The London Hotel in West Hollywood. However, while Kim dusted herself off with the help of mum Kris Jenner, the perpetrator was apprehended and the substance determined as harmless cooking flour.

Fortunately though, the Twitter queen saw the funny side, telling E! Online, “That probably is the craziest, unexpected, weird thing that ever happened to me. Like I said to my make-up artist, I wanted more powder and that's a whole lot of translucent powder right there.”

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