{"id":7905071,"date":"2017-08-15T16:42:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/?p=7905071"},"modified":"2017-08-15T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T20:42:15","slug":"kim-kardashian-apologizes-defending-makeup-artist-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/kim-kardashian-apologizes-defending-makeup-artist-racist-7905071\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian Apologizes for Defending Makeup Artist With History of Racist&nbsp;Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"pmc-paywall\"><p>Kim Kardashian&nbsp;has had a great deal of back and forth with her fans and makeup artist Jeffree&nbsp;Star in the past 24 hours, as the reality star came to the defense of Star and then apologized for involving herself with the situation.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Star criticized Kardashian&#39;s new KKW Beauty makeup swatches and received a bit of backlash from Kim K&#39;s loyal fans because of it, so Kardashian&nbsp;came to his defense, despite his public history of racist remarks. Though Kardashian&nbsp;stood by Star on Monday, on Tuesday (Aug. 15) she spoke out&nbsp;yet again, apologizing for hurting her fans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Umm&#8230; Kim what is going on with those new swatches?? &#8212; Looks like chalk &#8212; <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yCTZg2UhZu\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"nofollow\"  >pic.twitter.com\/yCTZg2UhZu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeffree Star (@JeffreeStar) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffreeStar\/status\/897160880336519170\"  target=\"_blank\"  rel=\"nofollow\"  >August 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>