Thursday, June 14, 2012

The Internet Mistook a Porn Star for Kim Kardashian

Despite having made a sex tape with ex-boyfriend Ray J, and having a very big — and 100 percent real, according to her X-ray results — butt, Kim Kardashian has never dabbled in the adult film industry. But after a photo of a naked porn star eating breakfast went viral yesterday, many were duped into thinking the shot was actually of the reality TV queen.

The story is a bit confusing, so bear with us. The whole thing started when MediaTakeOut ran a "world exclusive" story claiming Kanye West had “‘accidentally" tweeted a naked picture of Kim K eating in a hotel room. Next thing you knew, other outlets and blogs had run with the story, and the Internet had blown up in a bout of completely misguided speculation.

In the end, it turned out nothing about the original story was even remotely close to accurate. Kanye hadn't "accidentally" tweeted anything. As for the butt, it didn't even belong to Kim K. No, it was porn star Amia Miley. How do we know this? Twitter, of course. The star of such films as Couples Bang the Babysitter 5 and Hocus Pocus XXX (FYI: Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker don't appear in that one), took to the microblogging site to sort things out.

"Apparently a naked photo of me eating is going viral.... as Kim Kardashian.... Im confused." Miley tweeted.

Later, she would add: "im not going 2 argue about whether that pic is me or not.. want proof? look at the back dimple piercings. kim k doesn't have those."

TMZ, meanwhile, believes it was all one big prank. Apparently there's this Twitter thing called #WanksterWednesday, where people try to channel their inner Master Splinter and make a funny. Or something like that. Oddly enough, Kanye's rep wasn't laughing.

"This phantom tweet never occurred on [Kanye's] account. This is obviously the desperate, sad act of someone seeking to gain media exposure by exploiting Kanye’s notoriety," the rep wrote in an e-mail to TMZ.

Personally, I'm not so sure that whoever spearheaded this covert operation was "sad" and "desperate." More likely, it was a teenage boy with a bad Mountain Dew habit, and Kim Kardashian's W photo spread thumbtacked to his wall.

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