For my third straight Call Her Daddy-focused news hit of the day, we're going to focus on what Kim Kardashian said about Justin Bieber, namely her assessment of a photo shoot the two did together when the SWAG artist was a teen.
During her conversation with Alex Cooper, released in full on Wednesday, Kim was asked to name “something you probably should have gotten canceled for but didn’t.” Initially, Kim seemed reticent to give an answer, telling the podcast host “I think I’m gonna get canceled if I say it” while laughing.
“I don’t know who approved this and I don’t know who thought that this was normal, this narrative, but I did a photo shoot with Justin Bieber and he was 16 years old,” Kim ultimately answered. “I don’t know how old I was. … His girlfriend was there, his parents. It was nothing creepy at all. But I look back and I’m like, that’s the one thing that I feel like, you know, he’s a good, dear friend of ours and the whole family. But, like, who thought that that was a good idea?”
While Kim didn’t specify the exact photo shoot she was referencing, subsequent reports have connected it to a 2010 Elle magazine project.
“I must have been 30 years old, you know?” Kim added. “But it was a story of, what’s that story with the teacher and the student? The Graduate. The Graduate, right? I just feel like nothing weird was obviously happening, and I just think that was an odd concept and why none of us thought that that was odd at the time. But now we look back and I’m like, that would have not been the most appropriate thing.”
Kim went on to note that she’s “never really done anything to be canceled,” adding that she stands by everything she’s said.
“I’ve never said anything crazy, I’ve never done anything crazy,” she said.
See Alex and Kim’s full one-on-one below.
Bieber, meanwhile, is currently fresh off rolling out not one but two new albums this year. Both SWAG and SWAG II, the latter featuring Lil B, have received significant media attention in recent weeks. While fans have been awaiting news on a possible SWAG-focused tour, no such announcement has been made as of this writing. However, Bieber is among the headliners for the 2026 edition of Coachella, as we reported in September.
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