Kim Kardashian doesn’t like to smile in photos. She rarely smiles in selfies, in photos she posts on social media, or on red carpets. I seem to remember a time – pre-Kanye – when she did look/seem a bit happier. Like, she was more willing to smile in candid shots or on red carpets and such. But since she officially got with Kanye, it’s like she had to adopt his too-cool-for-smizing personality. It was especially notable in the Christmas photos she posted on her Instagram – the Kardashian-West clan spent Christmas wearing all-black and not smiling. Merry Christmas!
Well, Kim posted another photo from her family’s Christmas celebrations and she explained why she doesn’t smile: “See I do smile… even laugh on occasion. Not too often though because it causes wrinkles.”
See I do smile… even laugh on occasion. Not too often though because it causes wrinkles @shammaurice pic.twitter.com/Crct4LfVL7
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) December 29, 2014
Smiling causes wrinkles? So Kim’s answer to that medical fact (?!?!?!) is to completely stop smiling?! I mean… they’re called laugh lines for a reason, because you earn those lines by enjoying your life, by surrounding yourself with people who make you smile and laugh.
All of this is moot, of course. Kim’s face is so full of Botox and fillers, it’s probably difficult for her to smile anyway.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Kim’s Instagram.
smiling is so 2008.
Copying Victoria Beckham! – she thinks it makes her look “high fashion”
I read somewhere that Cher never smiled either for the same reason!
Beckham stated she doesn’t like her teeth when she smiles. Not because of fashion.
Beckham doesn’t like her teeth? FFS she has enough money to get them fixed. I think with both of them it’s a combination of too much botoxing and the Anna “nuclear” Wintour “smiling is for little people” vibe. I’m annoyed with myself for even reading this!
I remember Mrs Beckham saying she doesn’t like smiling (in photos) because she hates the way she looks when smiling in photos, candid or not, despite having had dental work to fix her snaggly and “pushed in” teeth. She also said she smiles and laughs a lot in real life, and several interviews I’ve seen of her seem to confirm this. Mind you, I’ve had the misfortune of seeing Mrs West “interviewed’, too – she talks and giggles in the high-pitched voice of a precocious 5-year-old.
I’ll slap myself for knowing this, thanks.
Total fronting. It’s difficult to smile when all the nerve endings in your face have been compromised by Botox and plastic surgery.
Exactly. She CAN’T smile. Like her “ugly cry”…the natural emotions can’t express themselves the usual way, so her face has to over compensate and it gets creepy.
She is living in the Uncanny Valley. She’ll probably open a Dash store there someday. Or maybe it will be their next show “Kim and Khloe Take the Uncanny Valley”
yep, was just thinking this as well
What nonsense!
What?!?! She must do this on purpose just so we talk about how idiotic she is…well played, Kim.
She’s alot more animated with that guy than she is with Kanye. Thats all I got
Very true, Jem
This is true, Jen, but the physical effort it took to muster up that smile probably means she’s exhausted herself for the next three days.
I hate to tell her a lot is genetic. I smile all the time and don’t have wrinkles and I am way older than she is. Making that statement though makes her sound like an idiot. Like I say to my son every thought that pops into your head doesn’t need to come out of your mouth.
And you’re a brilliant mom!
I’m younger than her and I already have MANY smile lines. I don’t mind them much…I think they make me look friendly/trustworthy. At least in my head LOL.
I can’t imagine a life where you AVOID laughing because of fear of wrinkles. How sad. Just shows the rich/famous aren’t really better off like we think.
I’m starting to get them where the skin folds when you smile, those small corners of the lips. I’m honestly fine with them for the most part since I feel I’m the only one who sees them and that I would never give up laughing for anything.
When someone is smiling and laughing, I’m not noticing their wrinkles, Kim is incredibly shallow and empty headed.
RBF always! I don’t care if I look mean all the time I look younger and it’s best do do things in moderation.
it’s best to smile and be happy in moderation? lol
I’d rather have smile lines from laughing and being happy than “look younger” and have to “moderate” my happiness.
My boyfriend makes me laugh almost every day. No way would I trade any lines I get from that for looking younger, even though I’m much older than he is.
To each their own, but Kim K needs to know that her baby will flourish if she’s happy and laughing with her, rather than looking stern or blank all the time. (Of course, the nanny will hopefully make up for that.)
really? there is more to life than what you look like. if you’re that scared of a wrinkle or an imperfection in your face, you’re in for a rough ride when you get older. you look pretty, enjoy the perks your looks will get you, but it won’t last forever. it’s ok to be older and look imperfect. life doesn’t begin and end with how you look. there’s more important stuff in life, I hope you realize that. when you’re sacrificing living your life to preserve your looks, your outlook is messed up. jmo
She can’t move that face enough to smile a lot. Also, nothing about Kanye inspires smiles or happiness.
OMG, is she still a thing?? Go away already!!!
Sadly, I don’t think she is ever going away. Her 15 minutes were up long ago yet she is in our faces constantly. If she starts to fade she will either have another baby or divorce Kanye in order to stay in the headlines.
Yeah…divorce, sex tapes and a baby have been checked off her list already – she (or mommy dearest) will have to come up with a whole new stunt to keep us awake – might be interesting to see after all!! Here are my guesses :
1- She will seduce JayZ and steel him away from Beyonce…in a drunken luv
2- Or will it be Chris Roch? He is on the market now!!
3- And now….for my pick……………: I think she and Beyonce will hook up, and live happily ever after!!!!!!
I assumed she had those muscles either removed or toxed to death.
No Dim Dumpy, smiling is an instant FACELIFT.
Its hard to smile when your face doesn’t really move.
How vain can one get? What a miserable woman she must be. She’s absolutely boring and miserable. I just can’t.
And what’s kanye’s excuse?
he misses Riccardo……. 🙂
ha ha love it!
When she smiles the work she has had done becomes very apparent. Any expression on her face looks so unnatural. I feel so bad for that baby. She is going to have such a warped sense of what human interaction is like. Maybe North never smiles because she has never been smiled at.
+1000000
What difference is it going to make? She’s just going to iron them away anyways.
wow, when she hits 40, it’s gonna be bad! she’s gonna look worse than RHOBH! what a empty life when all your identity is wrapped up in your looks. she looks ok in pictures, but in video, like on kourtney and khloe take the hamptons, she looks really surgeried.
I agree…what kind of life is that? Better to enjoy life and have some wrinkles, some true friends, some real fun! Just shows the rich/famous don’t lead the better lives we assume they do.
her makeup and hair look really nice in the third picture.
The most beautiful young women are the ones who guffaw, grin and enjoy life to the fullest. The most beautiful old women are the ones with a face full of wrinkles from guffawing, grinning and enjoying life to the fullest.
How miserable it must be to be Kim K.
Will somebody please tell her that talking causes wrinkles.
Then she would just tweet MORE
that’s ok, I’m not on twitter. yes, pls, tell her talking causes wrinkles!
That baby doesn’t know who the hell these people are. 😉
I really, really hesitate to say this because I’m on the bandwagon that feels she’s a bit dim sometimes, but I feeel like this is a joke.
This is something I could see someone saying sarcastically because too people were mocking them for never smiling. And not smiling in selfies isn’t often an indication of how people are in real life, it’s more of a vanity thing regarding the picture. I don’t take tons of selfies but when I do I’m often not smiling because it feels weird to be fake-smiling at nothing.
Agh, I just defended Kim Kardashian and admitted to selfie activity, life went so downhill in the last two minutes.
I think it’s a joke too. I also think that she’s usually trying to match Kanye’s energy, and Kanye is a very… well, I love Ye, but he’s a very difficult person with resting bitchface, which means he doesn’t smile a lot. Which is too bad – Kanye actually has a wonderful smile which totally changes his face.
no, it’s not a joke! at 30ish, she’s had more surgery than Madonna. She is serious when she says that. That’s why she never smiles in pictures, everyone says she’s depressed, NO! she’s so worried about her looks she won’t smile b/c it can cause wrinkles. i know it’s hard to believe someone can be that shallow, but she is.
I’m older than her. I smile all the time.. laugh out loud too.. and I don’t have wrinkles..
but then Black don’t crack that fast.. Genetics are the thing.. She is too obsessed. And when you are that obsessed by our looks life will do something to you to show you have it is not everything. I don’t hate on Kim.. I just think she is all about the superficial. And I feel bad for North as she grow up.
Yeah I’m a year younger than her or thereabouts and I have A LOT of smile wrinkles. But I’m also super, super pale and apparently sunscreen just isn’t enough. But it’s more important to enjoy life than to put your entire focus on preserving that which will eventually age anyway no matter what. Have some fun!
When she was with Reggie Bush she smiled a lot. I think ‘smiling causes wrinkles’ is one of those fun facts that Kanye told her and she believes it.
I’m pretty sure she’s joking…
But nobody is laughing because we all know it’s true.
I wonder what kind of lines the duck face will give her and all the other fame hoes who do the same thing.
In which picture is she smiling?
My bad. The smiling pic didn’t come up on my phone at first.
“even laugh on occasion”… I don’t know what I’d do if I had to make laughing an occasional thing. Would I have to pretend certain jokes aren’t funny? Would I have to make an appointment to get all my laughing out for the week/month/year? I couldn’t deal with life! What would I dooooooooo????? I can’t with this chick.
I have to think this is her attempt at snark. Is it a good attempt? Not to me but to dim Kim she must have found it hilarious.
I’m not surprised, figured this was why she rarely smiles, so ridiculous. What kind of life is that, to purposely not smile and enjoy yourself? Plus that’s setting a terrible example for her daughter, remaining wrinkle free is more important than laughing. Hate to break it to her but she will get old and wrinkly at some point, we all do.
I totally agree with Jess. I always assumed that’s what she never smiles. But look at her mother- always smiling and no wrinkles! (Just as plastic as her daughter of course, but it shows that you can be happy without fear- surgery it away!). I think it was a joke, but I do think deep down she’s serious.
She doesn’t smile because when she does, she looks like Janice from the Electric Mayhem.
Kanye always looks like he just smelled something foul or is suffering from a painful bout of constipation. That’s what not smiling gets ya, dumb ass.
I tend to agree, their “serious” faces have that Blue Steel quality from Zoolander, it makes them both look silly. They’re not serious people, no need for these overly dramatic faces. Like Kim’s face full of evening makeup 24 hours a day, it just looks stupid.
So her grandchildren will look back on photos of her and see nothing but a sour faced angry looking woman. No thanks. I want my grandchildren to see pictures of me when I was younger and see how happy I was (am).
I’m older than her, I smile and laugh and there are no lines. She looks unhappy. She was actually pretty and looked happy in the Reggie days. Will Kanye get wrinkles from all his scowling?
Kanye HAS deep, prominent forehead wrinkles! I smile a ton and I do have laugh lines around my mouth, but those are my only wrinkles at all, so it doesn’t really age me. People find me friendly and approachable. I prefer it that way- give a freakin smile, kim! Life is short!
no kim, your body alone, will not make you victoria beckham.
Victoria Beckham had said long ago that she didn’t smile because she hated her teeth
Please go away.
I swear Kim and Kompany read this site and the comments.
they can’t read – they have Jonathan Cheban do it………
ha ha !
I think she was kind of joking but I think she quit smiling over the years and especially in the last couple b/c her face doesn’t move very well and when she does smile its very obvious she’s had a lot of work done. Plus it has to feel weird to smile when your face is so tight. I probably wouldn’t smile either if I did all of that to my face. I think her resting face is less obvious on the surgery in her mind so that’s why she keeps it like that all the time. I’m sure doing the duck lips is about the easiest movement on her face b/c they kind of already make that face on their own now. I think getting all the plastic surgery took away her natural beauty and makes her look a lot older than she is. I never think anyone looks better or younger after they get work done. Or very rare if they do. I can’t imagine having my whole life wrapped up in my face and body and care what others think so much. She has to be miserable in the life she’s created.
LMAO, this immediately made me pity Kim just as I was getting ready to mock her.
The fact that smiling in pictures is OPTIONAL?
I couldn’t imagine NOT smiling. Sometimes I do it when I’m not noticing and friends have told me how seeing my sometimes goofy expressions makes them laugh too. The mere fact Kim LIVES a life where nothing hits her deep down in her belly and makes her laugh.
Or that she’d rather worry about keeping her face perfect when we all know she’s got so much silicone and hyaluronic acid in her face she can hear sloshing sounds when she shakes her head.
Come on Kim…you should smile MORE, you know…until you’ve managed to remove all the human emotion from your face and your trout is permanently hanging open like one of those real dolls.
y’all are dumb – it’s obviously a joke. She’s making fun of herself. I don’t like her, but even I can recognize when she’s trying to be funny. chill out.
She doesn’t smile because she’s dead inside.
Seems like she’s teaching her child not to smile either….starting her early as to prevent wrinkles you know.
Honestly, Kim posted that on twitter just to stay in the news. She will say/do anything just to keep people talking. Her worst nightmare is for the media to forget about her.
Still not 100% convinced that isn’t a Kanye cardboard cutout.
So she would rather go winkle free than laugh with her daughter.
She would rather be wrinkless than have any fun.
Poor poor nori.
Why do people assume that people who are looking serious all the time are not happy and enjoying their lives? HAVE people to smile and laugh?
I don’t care for Kim Kardashian, but for example: I read about the “Resting Bitch Face” first on Jeffree Star’s Facebook – he wears the RBF most times. But I am quite sure that guy is very well-balanced and happy with the life he’s living (specially at the moment). I think this whole RBF-thing is quite funny, actually, and I don’t judge people for that.
By the way, I don’t smile often on photos myself, specially when the photos are staged…. There is nothing worse than a forced and unnatural smile. I just look better with a serious face.
You can’t take anything Kim says seriously, she’ll say anything for attention. She is not a happy, well-balanced person, no one does that much work to themselves and feels good about themselves. She looks in the mirror constantly and only finds flaws, that’s no way for anyone to live their life. No one has to smile all the time to prove they’re happy but I will never believe constant self-mutilation is a sign of someone enjoying their life.
…Slow news day?
oh come on, you guys, it’s so obvious she’s being ironic…
I personally like laugh lines on Women and Men. I think it’s attractive and beautiful. I don’t get Botox at all. That being said, I don’t think she could smile if she tried to. She still looks like a waxy Fembot.
God, I hope there are some brain cells *somewhere* in that gene pool for poor North West.
Yes, I’m an evil b*tch snarking on a baby, but in that header pic, it looks like Kim is already teaching North the Slightly Pissy Vacant Face.
lol!
Last I checked, we are all going to die one day, wrinkled or not. So, why bother?
Kanye prob told her if Posh Spice can do it, not smile for the cameras, and ppl still take Posh’s pix so can she.
I think it’s because she finally realized how ridiculous and insipid the vast majority of us find her.
Sure. Ok. Don’t have to smile to be happy. Don’t need talent to be famous. Don’t need style to be Vogue. Empty. It’s the new full.
ITA, what a great way to put it!
I could look at pics of north with either of them all day long. In every pic she looks terrified to be around strangers. Developmentally north is in the stranger danger phase and it shows.
Um.. Im 25 and I have some little lines forming next to my mouth from smiling so much.. but whats the point of letting vanity stop us from living a happy life and smiling to the fullest everyday? If how you look in the 100 selfies you admit to taking a day takes precedence over your desire to smile and live and spread happiness then I really think you need to see a psychiatrist asap and deal with your issues.
Btw I walk down the street everyday and see what other people look like. I would much rather take a 70 year old woman look me in the eye and smile than a 30 year old with b**chface
Smiling is tough with all that botox.