Konservative Kim

KIM Kardashian says that even though she regularly poses nude, she’s actually “more conservative” with the cameras off. “It’s actually funny. At home I’m much more conservative than my public persona is,” she told Bret Easton Ellis in the 20th-anniversary issue of Richardson magazine. “My public persona is wild, sexual. But I’m actually uncomfortable when I talk about sex, and I’m more conservative when it comes to that,” she says in the cover story featuring a racy Steven Klein shoot. “But I’m vain like that. I can go on a set and be fully naked in front of 50 people doing a shoot, but if I’m one-on-one, intimate in bed, I’m, like, shy and insecure. I definitely have two different personalities like that. But I think motherhood has actually made me more confident about being publicly sexy.” She said the shoot was empowering because “I was somebody who gained 60 or 70 pounds in my pregnancies and felt so unlike myself and so unsexy. Literally, at the end, when you can’t even have sex, I thought, ‘I’m never going to have sex again in my life!’ I just felt so bad about myself in my soul. The Internet was making fun of me, comparing me to whales! Shamu and I were in a ‘ Who wore it better?’ side by side. I didn’t lose weight that quickly. But I’d say eight months later, I had probably my best body ever. I felt like, ‘I did this. I lost all this weight on my own. I feel better than ever!’ . . . So it was empowering when I did a nude shoot.”