Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Kylie Jenner is being accused of ableism for her photo shoot where she posed sitting in a golden wheelchair. (Steven Klein/Interview Magazine)
Albeism is a form of discrimination or prejudice against people who are disabled.
Kylie received a lot of rants from the public after photos of her sitting on a wheelchair were posted online.
Kylie is the cover star for the December issue of Interview Magazine and her photos were published along with the her interview.
Kylie admitted in the interview that her worst fear is "waking up and finding something bad about" herself on the internet. She did not however mention anything about disabled persons or any disability.
"I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there's a bad story about me, and I have to check," she said.
Jenner's Fan base fears came to a reality as their iconic fashionista has been criticized over social media by those who agree on the opinion of many that Jenner had taken advantage of and sexualized, disability for profit. Now her fears may have been realized.
"I'm constantly infantilized because of my wheelchair, denied even the idea of sexuality and agency let alone desirability," Kayla Whaley wrote on Twitter.
"But Kylie? She gets paid and praised to wear the shallowest possible illusion of my disability for a few hours."
Others commented that Jenner owes the disabled community an apology.
Ophelia Brown, a woman who is diagnosed to have been suffering Complex Regional Pain tweeted a photo of herself in her wheelchair and posted it beside the picture of Jenner in Interview Magazine. Brown ranted that Jenner is making disability a fashion statement. (Twitter: @bandaidknees)
The post has been retweeted more than 9000 times.
"Wow being in a wheelchair is so fun and fashionable!" she wrote.
Brown is raising fund to purchase a new wheelchair which she will be needing in order for her to gain some independent activity when she goes to university in the following year.
Brown wrote, "Seriously @KylieJenner, wheelchairs aren't 'limitations' they're things that give people freedom of movement and independence"
The associate director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability in San Francisco, Emily Smith Beitiks, stated that the images of Kylie Jenner in a wheel chair is an insult to people with disabilities insulting to people with disabilities.
In an interview in CNN she said, "It's deeply disturbing"
She added, "People with disabilities are already seen as powerless, and this just reinforces that."
Six days ago Jenner posted a photo of a woman in a wheelchair to her Instagram #IAmMoreas part of her anti-bullying campaign
The artist Audrey, wrote. #IAmMoreThan my wheelchair,"
Jenner has not yet issued a statement in response to the criticism thrown at her
