Khloé Kardashian fans think they’ve figured out why the star is often spotted with a red lollipop.
On Monday, December 12, the Good American founder was spotted eating a red lollipop while watching a basketball game with her sister Kim and niece North alongside her best friend LaLa Anthony, whose son was on the court attended Sierra Canyon High School.
This isn’t the first time the 38-year-old reality TV star has been caught with candy. She has been photographed with a lollipop in her hand (and in her mouth) in the past.
Fans have a theory that Khloé Kardashian’s red lollipop is actually a diet hack.
The ubiquitous presence of Khloé’s red lollipop led fans to theorize reasons why she was constantly caught on camera eating this particular candy.
One fan theory is that the lollipop could be a THC lollipop. Others believe the lollipop could be for anxiety or nausea.
But the most popular fan theory is that the lollipop is an appetite suppressant.
Khloé, along with sisters Kim and Kylie, previously promoted the Flat Tummy brand of appetite suppressants on Instagram.
She was called out for contributing to a culture of body dysmorphia for her Instagram ad for Flat Tummy Shakes in 2020, in which she claimed she drank the brand’s shakes to lose weight while simultaneously working out with a trainer and nutritionist worked together.
Fans slammed Khloé on Twitter for spreading a “damaging narrative” about “unrealistic and unhealthy ideals of beauty.” [her] impressive audience.”
In 2018, Kim posted an ad for Flat Tummy lollipops on her Instagram, calling the appetite-suppressing lollipops “literally unreal.”
She later removed the paid post after claiming she had used her influence to promote dangerous weight loss methods among young girls. However, a version with an edited caption denoting the brand still exists on their site.
Among Kim’s critics surrounding the lollipop ads was actress and activist Jameela Jamil, who called the Kardashians “double agents of the patriarchy” for their weight-loss promotions.
Khloé responded to Jamil’s criticism by telling the New York Times, “I don’t live in this negative energy space.”
Flat stomach products are widely controversial.
Flat tummy lollipops, which retail for $75 for a pack of 30 lollipops, are not FDA approved. The main ingredient is cane sugar with the addition of Sateriel saffron extract, which the company claims is a “clinically proven ingredient designed to help control food intake and cravings.”
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Some fans believe the lollipop could be a hint that Khloé is dropping an upcoming collaboration with Kourtney’s wellness brand Lemme, which launched in September 2022.
Lemme, which defines itself as “a new brand of vitamins and supplements with innovative, science-based formulations,” markets products such as the gummy supplements Lemme Focus and Lemme Chill.
While the food everyone eats is their own thing, for Khloé, using her influence to promote harmful body image stereotypes certainly seems like living in the negative energy space — and making money from it — from that she claimed to avoid him.
Alexandra Blogier is a writer on the YourTango news and entertainment team. It covers celebrity gossip, pop culture analysis and all things entertainment related.