Billboard accused of 'sexualizing' baby North West with cringe-worthy photo, caption

Billboard's Twitter account posted a photo of North West with her mother Kim Kardashian. The caption read "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree..." and showed North West with her tongue out, holding a lollipop...

TheGrio Staff

Oct 30, 2015

Somebody getting fired.

Billboard’s Twitter account posted a photo of North West with her mother, Kim Kardashian. The caption read, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…” and showed North West with her tongue out, holding a lollipop.

Put the two together, and it’s not a good look at all.

The tweet was posted this morning around 7:00 a.m. ET. It was deleted a couple hours later.

The point of the photo, Billboard will almost certainly insist later when and if they address the tweet, was to show that North West was “taking control of her image” like her parents. The two-year-old was captured on video earlier this week saying “No pictures” to paparazzi.

It wasn’t “sassy,” as Billboard writes in the article. And no, Marie Claire, she wasn’t having a “f***ing meltdown.”

It was just a two-year-old having to deal with paparazzi and saying “No pictures,” in a two-year-old’s voice.

So that was the “point.”

Update

Billboard has finally addressed the North West photo/caption on Twitter:

We apologize for the tweet involving North West. The caption was about her comments to paparazzi. The suggestion some see was not intended.

— billboard (@billboard) October 30, 2015