Kylie Jenner is putting her money where her mouth is… or we should say where her mouth unfortunately found itself on Monday.
For those who didn’t see, the “self-made billionaire” found herself in the midst of controversy after an unfortunate choice of words that made her seem callous and indifferent to the suffering she claimed to care about.
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First she posted about how her heart was broken after “over half a billion animals” were killed in the raging wildfires in Australia — only to post a pic hours later showing off how cute her toes looked in her $1500 Louis Vuitton mink fur slippers.
You know. Mink fur. From dead animals.
Then, somehow, despite clearly knowing about the Oceanian environmental disaster, she managed to post something even more cringeworthy.
She captioned a post in which she showed off her new yellow hair:
“find ur fire ??”
Yeah. Phrasing, gurl. Damn.
After being called out she changed the caption to remove the unfortunate fire reference, but come on!
Well, apparently all the public shaming worked because Kylie finally decided to do something helpful. A source confirmed to People the beauty mogul had pledged to donate ONE MILLION DOLLARS to various relief efforts in Southern Australia.
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On the rather icky social media gaffe, the insider told the outlet:
“That post was completely unintentional. Kylie stands behind her desire to want to help provide relief towards the devastation the fires have caused.”
Kylie isn’t the only celeb who has faced pressure to donate some of her enormous wealth to help Australia.
Big sis Kim Kardashian West even responded after one Twitter user tagged the whole fam in a critical post, writing:
“nothing gets me more heated than to see the Kardashians/Jenners talk about climate change/wildfires & not donate even a penny. @KimKardashian @khloekardashian @KylieJenner @KendallJenner @kourtneykardash”
Kim shot back:
“nothing gets me more heated than to see people think they know what we donated to and to think we have to publicize everything”
We’re guessing the spotlight the reality star turned on the Twitic became too much for them because the original post has since been deleted.
So what do YOU think, Perezcious philanthropists? Are anonymous critics being too presumptuous by calling out celebs without knowing the score? Or is public pressure necessary to get the ultra rich to actually put their money toward a good cause and not themselves?
[Image via Kylie Jenner/Instagram.]
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