16 Times Celebs Thought They Were Being Relatable But Actually Came Off As Pretty Darn Out-Of-Touch

In the days earlier societal media, mag articles with headlines similar "Celebrities, they're conscionable similar us!" tried to person america that the radical connected the covers aren't truthful antithetic from the remainder of us.

These days, however, the celebs themselves are the ones claiming they're "just similar us" connected Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. TBH, their attempts astatine being relatable are lone palmy erstwhile they're authentic, similar Julia Fox's flat tour. Other times, they travel crossed arsenic fake arsenic a TikTok decorator "dupe."

Here are 16 times precise affluent celebs tried and failed to beryllium relatable to america mean folks:

1. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In 2023, pictures of Kim Kardashian celebrating St. Patrick's Day by pub hopping successful London with her friends went viral. Fans praised her for seeming to clasp the emblematic nighttime retired an mean Londoner would enjoy.

BACK TO REALITY: Another photo that a chap pub patron posted from Kim's nighttime retired revealed that she was really filming for her Hulu show, The Kardashians.

2. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: Following her divorcement from Kris Humphries, her hubby of 72 days, Kim Kardashian told the Guardian, "We had been done filming our play astatine that point, truthful we decided to movie for the wedding. And that was a determination that helium and I made together. But I deliberation that, with immoderate decisions successful life, like, I spoke to a miss contiguous who had cancer, and we were talking astir however this is specified a hard happening for her, but it taught her a large acquisition connected who her friends are and truthful overmuch astir life. She's 18. And I was like, that's however I feel."

BACK TO REALITY: She was called out for seemingly comparing her divorcement to surviving cancer.

On her website, Kardashian claimed that her words had been taken retired of context. She wrote, "In nary mode was I comparing my ain experiences to that of a crab patient. I was simply talking astir however determination are times successful your life, and everyone goes done them, erstwhile you find retired who loves you capable to basal by you done heavy and thin."

She continued, "This is simply a illness that has brought truthful overmuch symptom and heartache to our family, and I would ne'er privation to offend oregon upset anyone who was battling cancer, oregon whose household members were battling oregon had passed distant from cancer. What I said successful the interrogation was misconstrued, and I wanted to explicate to you each what the discourse was astir my telephone telephone with this girl."

3. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In 2022, Kim Kardashian shared her "advice for women successful business" with Variety. She said, "Get your fucking ass up and work. It seems similar cipher wants to enactment these days."

BACK TO REALITY: A clip of the interrogation got perfectly ratioed connected Twitter arsenic radical pointed retired the galore advantages that Kardashian has implicit galore different pistillate successful business. On the full-length YouTube video, commenters explicit akin thoughts.

4. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In a 2022 occurrence of The Kardashians, Kris Jenner asked her daughter, Kendall, if she'd similar the cook to marque her a snack. Kendall replied, "I'm making it myself. I'm conscionable gonna chop up immoderate cucumber. It's beauteous easy." She past proceeded to chopped the cucumber arsenic if it was her archetypal time.

BACK TO REALITY: The viral infinitesimal sparked a speech connected wealthiness and privilege.

But the exemplary took it successful stride, treating it arsenic a joke. She adjacent turned the infinitesimal into her Halloween costume.

5. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: On her Instagram stories, Kylie Jenner shared that her daughter, Stormi Webster, wanted to thrust a schoolhouse bus. So, Travis Scott, Stormi's dad, bought her one.

BACK TO REALITY: Fans criticized the acquisition arsenic "middle people cosplay."

6. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: On different occurrence of The Kardashians that aired 2 weeks later, Kylie Jenner told her mom, Kris, "I conscionable privation to bash mean things with you." Then they went to the market store unneurotic due to the fact that Kylie said it would beryllium "good for [the] soul." Afterwards, they went done the car wash, which Kris compared to Disneyland.

7. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: Similarly, successful 2022, Travis and Kourtney Kardashian Barker staged a photoshoot astatine a motortruck stop.

BACK TO REALITY: In the comments, they besides faced disapproval for being retired of touch.

8. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: Looking backmost connected an outfit she wore to the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with Vogue, Bella Hadid said, "I never, increasing up, had thing designer. My ma wouldn't fto me. I deliberation I got my archetypal brace of Louboutins erstwhile I graduated precocious school. It makes maine affectional actually, due to the fact that I'm truthful blessed successful this picture, for the archetypal clip successful my full big life...I consciousness truthful bully astir myself, I felt beautiful...compared to [my younger self]; she was truthful sad, and [current me] is truthful contented and happy."

BACK TO REALITY: Fans pointed out that, arsenic the girl of existent property developer Mohamed Hadid and model/reality prima Yolanda Hadid, Bella grew up wealthy. As a kid, she lived successful an $85 cardinal mansion her dada had built for the family. They besides brought up the information that determination is simply a quality betwixt not being capable to afford decorator apparel and not being allowed to bargain them.

9. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In 2015, Gwyneth Paltrow participated successful the "food stamps challenge," showing the groceries she purchased for the unsmooth equivalent of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

BACK TO REALITY: The histrion was criticized connected 2 fronts: (1) her market store haul was "not wholly realistic for a Snap recipient," and (2) for galore Snap recipients, these benefits are "not each they person for food."

The Capital Area Food Bank of Texas's elder manager of advocacy and nationalist policy, Kathy Green, told the Guardian, "A batch of [recipients] are working, truthful they person an income, and they travel to our nutrient pantry. In the bulk of cases, they are piecing unneurotic antithetic vehicles for food...[But] I don't cognize if what she bought is precise typical of what they would usually buy. ... Produce is wonderful, but successful examination to what they tin get for their dollar, a batch of them crook to much shelf-stable processed food."

10. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: On a 2022 occurrence connected her podcast Anything Goes, Emma Chamberlain compared her self-employment to having a 9-5. She said, "Because you're an worker of idiosyncratic else, mentally, it's easier for you to disconnect aft enactment truthful that you tin bask each of your escaped clip to the fullest without having to deliberation astir your job. Whereas, erstwhile you're self-employed...you ne'er halt reasoning astir it. You ne'er get to disconnect. You ne'er get to beryllium like, 'Oh, I'm done for now.' It is truthful hard."

BACK TO REALITY: On Reddit, fans pointed retired that the world of an mean 9-5 worker is rather a spot antithetic than the beingness Chamberlain leads arsenic a self-employed influencer.

11. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In 2019, Chrissy Teigen tweeted a gag astir her ma perpetually losing her AirPods.

BACK TO REALITY: Following backlash to however she trivialized the $159 earbuds, she apologized for however "icky" it came across.

In a follow-up tweet, she added, "I committedness I volition not ever accidental the close happening successful the close way, but I besides committedness I hatred disappointing oregon pissing you guys off. I'm sorry, and I volition bash amended to not beryllium specified an asshole."

13. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In 2020, Jennifer Lopez insisted that the concealed to her smooth, glowy tegument was olive oil. She told Page Six, "It's a concealed I've utilized implicit the years due to the fact that it truly does work." She besides added that wearing sunscreen and moisturizing is important to maintaining "that J.Lo glow."

BACK TO REALITY: Three years later, TikToker @NeedTheDeets pointed out a seeming filter glitch successful Lopez's promotional station for SportWater. It appeared to amusement her "real tegument texture."

14. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: During a 2016 sojourn to The Graham Norton Show, Jennifer Lawrence talked astir scratching her butt connected rocks that autochthonal Hawaiians see ineffable portion filming The Hunger Games. Framing it arsenic a quirky anecdote, she said, "I dunno, [the rocks] were ancestors, who knows — they were sacred. And you're not expected to beryllium connected them, due to the fact that you're not expected to exposure your genitalia to them. I, however, was successful a wetsuit for this full sprout – ohio my god, they were truthful bully for butt itching!"

She continued, "One stone that I was butt-scratchin' connected came escaped [causing a landslide]...and astir killed our dependable guy...And each the Hawaiians were like, 'Oh my god, it's the curse!' And I'm successful the country going, 'I'm your curse. I wedged it escaped with my ass.'"

BACK TO REALITY: She was called retired for knowingly disrespecting Hawaiian culture.

Lawrence apologized connected Facebook, writing, "I meant perfectly nary disrespect to the Hawaiian people. I truly thought that I was being self-deprecating astir the information that I was 'the curse,' but I recognize the mode it was perceived was not funny, and I apologize if I offended anyone."

15. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In 2017, Ariana Grande captioned a since-deleted Instagram post, "When you're cute, but you're besides the hardest moving 23-year-old quality being connected world #cute #butalso #CEO #haventsleptinyears."

BACK TO REALITY: On societal media, she faced backlash from fans who pointed retired that determination are plentifulness of different 23-year-olds crossed the satellite who are "making 60 cents a time trying to supply for their families" and "working 4 jobs to enactment successful their tiny apartments."

16. TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In a since-deleted Instagram video from March 2020, Madonna said, "What's unspeakable astir [the coronavirus] is what's large astir it. ... And what's fantastic astir it is that it's made america each adjacent successful galore ways."

BACK TO REALITY: Online, radical pointed retired the irony of the popular prima giving a code astir equality from her luxurious, roseate petal-adorned bathtub.

17. And finally, TRYING TO BE RELATABLE: In 2022, Grimes told Vanity Fair that her spouse Elon Musk "does not unrecorded similar a billionaire" and "lives astatine times beneath the poorness line." She said, "To the constituent wherever I was like, 'Can we not unrecorded successful a precise insecure $40,000 house? Where the neighbors, like, movie us, and there's nary security, and I'm eating peanut food for 8 days successful a row?'"

BACK TO REALITY: Both Grimes and Musk were criticized for being out-of-touch and truthful blatantly unaware of their privilege.