Khloe Kardashian admits she looked like a ‘cartoon’ after filter obsession

Khloe Kardashian says she suffered ‘filler blindness’ and now regrets overusing filters and cosmetic enhancements.

Khloé Kardashian is getting brutally honest about her past obsession with filters and fillers. In the latest episode of her Khloé in Wonderland podcast, the 41-year-old reality star opened up about how she once heavily edited her pictures, so much so that she looked like a “cartoon character.”

“I wouldn’t dare post a photo without heavily Photoshopping,” she confessed. “And in hindsight, when I look back at those photos, it’s humiliating that I thought that was even a version of myself.”

Khloé revealed that this extreme editing led to what she called “filler blindness,” a phenomenon where repeated image alteration distorts one’s sense of reality. Surrounded by people who routinely filtered their photos, she began believing that the edited version was her real self. “If I got paparazzied, I’d be like, ‘I don’t look like that. I look like this photo,’” she said. “I really had to reprogram my mind.”

She admitted to using Botox and fillers in the past but has since scaled back dramatically. “I don’t love fillers anymore,” she said, explaining she now only uses them to correct an indentation on her face where a tumour was removed.

Instead of relying on filters, Khloé now prefers to take hundreds of unedited photos until she finds one, she genuinely likes. “I don’t have to Photoshop every photo anymore,” she said. “I want to see myself for who I am.”

The star hopes to inspire fans to embrace authenticity in an industry still obsessed with perfection. Her candidness marks a notable shift from a time when flawless online images were the norm.