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Kim Kardashian’s cover was airbrushed but her butt is the real deal!

Kim Kardashian’s biggest asset has certainly gained a lot of attention of late, but the big question on everyone’s mind remains, is her internet-breaking backside real?

As it turns out there’s no butts about it! Apart from the usual airbrushing and smoothing things out, the 34-year-old’s bodacious bod and bounteous rear is au natural, according to Paper Magazine’s editorial director, Mickey Boardman.

“Every cover of every magazine is airbrushed on some level,” he told US Weekly.

“But what I will say is, that is her butt. It is not padded. It is not augmented. That is all really her.”

While Mickey admits to some slight retouching of the images, which were shot by legendary French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, he insists Kim’s teeny-tiny waist and well-oiled rump, which feature on the cover of the New York based fashion magazine, is the real deal.

“Yes, there was retouching to clean things up and make things look amazing,” he admitted. “That’s what retouching is. It’s not building an ass that isn’t there or taking 50 pounds off the waist.”

Paper Magazine’s Drew Elliot (right), Kim Kardashian and Mickey Boardman (left).

The reality TV queen, who once got an x-ray to prove that she doesn’t have butt implants, sent websites and social media into overdrive after her nude magazine cover was released earlier this week in an attempt to ‘break the Internet’.

And that is indeed what her naked backside seems to have done, as fellow celebrities, comedians and general online pranksters take to cracking jokes about the now-infamous image of her bare, rotund posterior.

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