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Khloe Kardashian racing to remove bikini pic from Internet

After an unedited photo Khloe Kardashian in a bikini went viral, her team is working hard to get the image removed from the Internet

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While doctors and healthcare professionals are sounding the alarm about the potential threat of the coronavirus variant, Khloe Kardashian is in her own race against time as she tries to stop an unedited bikini photo from sweeping the Internet.

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The socialite and reality star was left horrified after an natural-looking snap of her started making the rounds online, with reps for the Kardashian camp looking to scrub a pic of Khloe lounging by the pool before being retouched.

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“The colour edited photo was taken of Khloe during a private family gathering and posted to social media without permission by mistake by an assistant,” Tracy Romulus, the chief marketing officer of Kim Kardashian’s KKW Brands, said in a statement to Page Six. “Khloe looks beautiful but it is within the right of the copyright owner to not want an image not intended to be published taken down.”

Just last month, the 36-year-old spoke out against online bullying in the comments of an Instagram post, writing, “I don’t want anyone to kiss my ass. I’m not asking for that … I am so very grateful and appreciative of anyone who stands up to bullying or people writing stories simply for clickbait. Defending someone, especially when we don’t know one another makes my heart happy. That’s the person I am. I like to defend what is right.”

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Piers Morgan reshared the photos to his official

But the Good American co-founder has maintained in the past that she isn’t trying to pretend she’s perfect. Earlier this year, Khloe shared a photo to her

This isn’t the first time a member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan has been caught in a Photoshop controversy. Last year, Khloe’s half-sister Kylie Jenner was accused of retouching a poolside bikini snap after sharp-eyed followers noticed a dip in the pool wall and chalked it up to the photo having been edited. Jenner later re-posted the image with a closer crop.

Kylie Jenner was accused of editing a bikini snap in a photo posted to her Instagram.
Kylie Jenner was accused of editing a bikini snap in a photo posted to her Instagram. Photo by instagram.com/kyliejenner

Jenner had also been accused of Photoshopping her social pics before, including during a Turks and Caicos vacation alongside best pal Stasis Karanikolaou and a

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