Kim Kardashian admits controversial photo shoot with Justin Bieber when he was 16 should’ve gotten her canceled

Kim Kardashian has admitted a controversial photoshoot involving a 16-year-old Justin Bieber would have got her canceled in 2025.

A 2010 shoot for Elle Magazine saw Bieber and a 29-year-old Kardashian flirting with each other and running around on a beach together in what was hugely controversial at the time.

Inspired by the 1967 movie The Graduate, the shoot saw Kardashian holding hands with Bieber as the pair gazed into each other's eyes in the Bahamas.

15 years on, the SKIMS founder has admitted the whole thing was a mistake and should have got her canceled.

Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Kardashian said: "I think I'm gonna get canceled if I say it. Like, I don't know who approved this, and I don't know who thought that this was normal, this narrative. But I did a photo shoot with Justin Bieber, and he was 16 years old. And I don't know how old I was."

Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber pictured together in 2010 (Getty)

The reality TV star added: "Nothing ever weird was obviously happening, and like, I just think that was like an odd concept and why none of us thought that that was odd at the time. But now we look back and I'm like, that would have not been the most appropriate thing."

The 'Baby' singer was dating Selena Gomez at the time, with Kardashian explaining how Bieber's now former partner was on the set of the controversial shoot.

Kardashian continued: "His girlfriend was there, his parents were. I mean, it was like nothing creepy at all. But I look back and I'm like, that's the one thing that I feel like, you know, he's like a good dear friend of ours and the whole family, but like, who thought that that was a good idea?"

Selena Gomez was on the set (Kevin Winter/DCNYRE2010/Getty Images for DCP)

The photoshoot, inspired by the story of an college graduate who is seduced by an older married woman, was perhaps unsurprisingly controversial.

"It was a story of what's that story with the teacher and the student, the graduate. The graduate," Kardashian explained on the podcast. "I just feel like nothing ever weird was obviously happening and it was just an odd concept and why none of us thought that that was odd at the time.

"But now we look back and I'm like 'that would have not been the most appropriate thing.'"

In the years since, Bieber and Kardashian have joined the small club of people who have allegedly been permanently banned from buying a Ferrari.