North West, 12, gets 'wild' new body modification
Kim Kardashian's eldest daughter, North West, has been pictured with even more piercings.
Despite the backlash, the Skims mogul, who shares four children with her ex-husband, Kanye West, has been more than happy for North to express herself online.
Over the past few months, the 12-year-old has shown off her 'shark teeth' and blue hair on social media, as well as a plethora of piercings on her face and hands.
Taking to her Instagram Stories on Thursday (5 February), North was pictured with over a dozen piercings on her hand.
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Kim suggested on Khloè's podcast, Khloé in Wonderland, that the piercings were fake and that people aren't aware of her parenting approach.
She thought that the 'misconception that people might have is like, 'oh, she's trying to be her bestie' and lets her get away with a lot'.
"Like, no. Northy actually has a lot of rules," the reality star insisted. "The one area is I do let her express herself, and I do let her do that.
"I love her for that, and she would do it, you know, regardless. It's funny like people are like, oh, this blue hair all of a sudden or like her fake piercings that she puts up.
"I have pictures of her when we're in first grade, pre-k, where she'd come with, like a fake septum ring, and she has her green braids, and she has pink braids.
"But she's always loved the colored braids in her hair since she was little."
According to Byrdie, a single-point piercing, or dermal piercing, is a type of piercing without a separate entry and exit point.
Still, the piercings have been met with some criticism online, with one person commenting: “Dermal piercings at 12 on your hand is wild.
“I’m all for allowing your children to express themselves and find their own style, but not this, not at 12.”
“This is absolutely absurd. She is a child,” a second penned, while a third said: "It’s a fake piercing btw."
Meanwhile, North appears to be well aware of what people are saying about her appearance as she rapped on the track 'Piercing on My Hand (Ye Version)': "All my friends are hits, you know I’m not lazy. You’re so angry that I’m so mainstream.
"I’m not sure I’m crazy. I want more piercings and tats.
"I love blue hair put it in some plaits. Put the music to the max. I want like a hundred thousand racks."
The All's Fair star has also previously spoken about the criticism North has received as she's grown up in the public eye, as she told Call Her Daddy's Alex Cooper in October: "It's really hard and it's really interesting because all the kids are wearing the same things.
"But then my daughter tries to wear it, and then I'm like, 'Okay, we're never wearing that again'.
"Unfortunately, we made that mistake in front of the whole world."
She continued to say that 'as a mum, you're kind of learning at the same time', but 'what I do know is my baby's such a good girl and such a sweet girl', and that North 'learns' from the 'things she's experienced'.
"She does listen to me, but in other areas I'm like, 'Babe, if you want blue hair, it is what it is'. It makes her so happy. I would never take that creativity away from her," she added.
LADbible Group has contacted Kim Kardashian's representatives for comment.
Topics: Kim Kardashian, Celebrity, Parenting, Social Media, US News
Anish Vij