Khloe Kardashian is convinced her two children, True and Tatum Thompson, are poking fun at their mom with whales around the house.
Kardashian, who admitted last year that she feared whales, took to Instagram on Friday to present growing evidence that her six-year-old True and her one-year-old Tatum were taunting her with images of the gargantuan sea mammals.
In one post, Kardashian shared that the kids had left her a crudely drawn whale in the ocean.
“The kids think this is funny. It’s not,” Kardashian wrote in an Instagram story post caught by People.
In a second post, Kardashian revealed that she had found more whales among her daughter True’s homework.
“So, my kids are asleep, I’m going through my daughter’s homework that came in,” Kardashian said as she ruffled through her daughter’s papers until she revealed a book about Humpback whales.
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“She checks these books out from the library, I swear, just to mess with me…I can’t even look at this,” she said.
This also isn’t the first time she’s accused her daughter of committing acts of psychological torture using whales.
“My daughter bullies me,” Khloe said in a season 4 episode of “The Kardashians” last year, E! News reported. “She draws me photos of whales just to fuck with me. And she thinks it’s so funny. Everyone turns into a fucking asshole at some point, oh my god.”
According to a 2014 Atlantic feature, a fear of whales, sometimes referred to as cetaphobia, is not uncommon. Many cetaphobes cite the massive size of whales as influencing their fear.
Per the National Institute of Health, specific phobias — the name of a range of unreasonable or low-risk fears — affect 5-10% of US adults.
Kardashian said on X last year that she dealt with a fear of whales for years and acknowledged that the trepidation was “totally irrational.” Kardashian also said that she has a “low-key” fear of the ocean, and she also previously revealed that she had also developed a fear of manta rays last October after she saw one on a phone screensaver at the gym, People reported.
Like many other cetaphobes, Kardashian said on X she is afraid of the usually peaceful mammal because of its “ginormous” size.
Or maybe it’s because her sister and sometimes nemesis, Kim Kardashian, apparently sounds like one.
Representatives for Kardashian did not immediately respond to a request for comment.