For all the discussion about Kim Kardashian’s derriere, you’d expect to find an ancient civilisation living on it.

Or an encoded blueprint for global peace. But here, wedged into a vampish outfit that would prompt adult film-maker Russ Meyer to yell, “Roll camera!” there seems little to provoke such extensive discourse.

Perhaps ‘little’ is the wrong word. There’s no denying it’s a pert posterior, but it’s far from freakishly disproportionate and surely undeserving of the wealth of web references (more than three million on Google).

It certainly didn’t need to be fondled on TV by The Circle’s Chrissie Swan – footage that subsequently led certain stateside entertainment bulletins.

Nor does eventual discussion of it raise so much as a plucked eyebrow from Kardashian.

“Yep, I’m the girl with the big butt,” says the successful self-promoter, former Paris Hilton acolyte and star of familial reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

“The girls at school would walk by and grab it and be like, ‘Your butt’s so big!’ It was a joke, but I’d hide it with my uniform. I guess I’ve learnt to appreciate it now.” [Read more...]