For the few people who missed the already old news about Kim Kardashian here is a recap. The reality TV star who recently gave birth to North, a daughter with husband rapper Kanye West, visited an orphanage in Thailand for her show. According to USWeekly, she met with a 12-year-old girl and mused: "I literally cannot stop thinking about her [...] I told Kanye, I was like, 'Honestly, this girl is so sweet and so cute, I would totally adopt her.'"
Most readers here probably don't care too much about Kim's antics, but the idea that she would adopt a child might have elicited some thoughts for those in the know. Thoughts like those of Kim's mother: "I think that you can't just go to an orphanage and fall in love with a child and then take them home like you're shopping." Or thoughts about the conflict between the crude openness of show-all reality TV and the vulnerable privacy of adoption. Or thoughts about the capacities of a narcissistic "star mother" to cater to the special needs of an older adopted child.
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