Sharon Osbourne has set the record straight on her Kim Kardashian comments.
Following her interview in the UK’s Telegraph, opining the reality star’s nude selfies were not a representation of feminism, the 64-year-old addressed her remarks Monday on “The Talk.”
“It’s so ridiculous how these things happen,” Osbourne began. “I was doing this interview and at the end of the interview, as the lady was leaving, she said to me, ‘Have you heard that Kim Kardashian has come out as a feminist?’ And I’m like, ‘No.'”
Osbourne explained that when the interviewer asked her opinion of Kardashian, 36, and she gave it.
“It wasn’t rude. She poses nude, she’s very sexual in her clothes, and even her every day clothes, they’re very sexual,” Osborne said. “Whatever she does, it’s showing her body, which shows she’s a strong, grounded woman and she’s not ashamed of her body.”
Though Osbourne claims she was “misquoted,” she maintains that stripping down does not equate to female empowerment.
“She wants to show it, which is her business, nobody else’s business but hers, and that’s great, but people have been doing that since day one and people have been stripping and whatever since day one,” Osbourne continued. “It doesn’t make you a feminist, it makes you someone who is a strong person, and confident with their body and wants to show it. But, that’s not a feminist.”
After Osbourne’s initial quotes were published, saying “Kim says she’s doing everything in the name of feminism, but that’s not feminism,” Kardashian clapped back with a nude selfie and a few choice words.
“First of all, I think she said I said a quote about, ‘I post nude photos in the name of feminism.’ I never said that,” Kardashian told E! News. “So I think when people misquote you and then comment, it just sounds ridiculous.”