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Kylie Jenner isn't creating bad buzz for baring her booty in Interview Magazine -- it's the wheelchair she's posing in that's sparking serious backlash!
In case you missed the racy photo spread, the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star sits in the handicap device while wearing nothing but a strapless latex bodysuit. Another snapshot shows the 18-year-old raising her leg in a risque pose as she sits in the gold chair.
While Interview Magazine told E! News that the use of a wheelchair was meant to reference "positions of power and control," disability advocates are offended by the mag's choice.
"It's deeply disturbing," said Emily Smith Beitiks, associate director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability in San Francisco. "People with disabilities are already seen as powerless, and this just reinforces that."
Critics continue to take to Twitter to bash Kylie and the outlet, but Interview is standing by their creative choice.
"Our intention was to create a powerful set of pictures that get people thinking about image and creative expression, including the set with the wheelchair," the publication told E!. "But our intention was certainly not to offend anyone."
"At Interview, we are proud of our tradition of working with great artists and empowering them to realize their distinct and often bold visions," they added. "The Kylie Jenner cover by Steven Klein, which references the British artist Allen Jones, is a part of this tradition, placing Kylie in a variety of positions of power and control and exploring her image as an object of vast media scrutiny. Throughout the Art Issue, we celebrate a variety of women who are both the creators and subjects of their artistic work, and the Kylie feature aims to unpack Kylie's status as both engineer of her image and object of attention."
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