Kim Kardashian West loves to be daring. From her hair color to her social media grid to her relationship with public life, Kim K has never had a problem being bold. A trendsetter, even. But for anyone who's ever spilled soup on themselves, it's obvious her latest feat of daring might be a little too bold.
She recently Instagrammed a photo of herself eating ramen (fine, great, v. normal) while naked (revolutionary, groundbreaking, v. dangerous):
This image, accompanied only by the ramen emoji (one of the top ten most important emojis, tbh), leaves so many questions unanswered. Question number one: where'd you get that ramen? Looks great. Did you go out or order in? KKW probably ordered in because there aren't a lot of restaurants that allow topless dining, unfortunately. Very 2000-and-late.
Question number two: does anybody else feel like ramen for lunch? Kim Kardashian West is always inspiring the masses and this picture does not disappoint. We should all be asking ourselves: why am I not eating ramen right now?
Question number three: how are you not burning yourself. Thirty-five percent of the experience of eating ramen is bathing yourself in hot flecks of broth as your slurp up noodle after noodle in your own ecstatic splash zone. It stands to reason that doing this with a bare chest is asking for a thousand tiny stings. But what do we mere mortals know?
Kim K has managed to perfectly position her chopstick-holding hand, her bowl-clutching hand, and a mouth full of nude-dles to compose the perfect shot. Clearly she is operating at a whole other level than the rest of us. One could even say that the average diner, attempting to Instagram her meal, has nothing in ramen with Kim K. Ah, but we can dream.
Now, who's hungry? Send nude-dles.
Madison is the digital deputy editor at ELLE, where she also covers news, politics, and culture. If she’s not online, she’s probably napping or trying not to fall while rock climbing.
R. Eric Thomas is a columnist for ELLE.com, where he skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity shade, and schadenfreude. He is also the author of Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a memoir-in-essays.
