DUCK OUT OF IT Kim Kardashian’s bad social media habit will give her wrinkles just like a smoker & are difficult to treat, says surgeon

KIM Kardashian’s mᴀssive profile is just as much built on her looks as how she masterminds promoting her lucrative glam brand.

But a plastic surgeon has warned that the Skims founder’s signature pose used to lure fans online may eventually come back to haunt her.

Kim joined thousands of soccer fans and celebrities on July 21 to support Lionel Messi at his Inter Milan debut. For her visit to the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Kim kept her style casual in jeans and a cropped white T-shirt.

Flanked by her son Saint West, 7, the Hulu star jumped into pH๏τo ops and was captured pursing her lips for a fan as he took a pH๏τo with Serena Williams nearby.

Kim, 42, often makes sure her signature pout is picture-perfect. She performs it mostly for selfies with fans critiquing her famous duck face.

In an exclusive interview, plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Westreich told The U.S. Sun: “Maybe Kim should come up with a new pose.

“It would not be irrational to imagine if someone did this amount and type of pouting that eventually they would develop the same lines as smokers.

“The point is that this is a repeтιтive movement on the face. “It does not matter if you are smoking, drinking out of a straw, or doing this kissy face. It is all the same movement.

“It is no different than people who frown when they concentrate and get those vertical lines between their eyebrows. “All these facial wrinkle issues are about repeтιтive movement which is what people get cosmetic treatments for.

“Depending on how often someone smokes, for example, it might take a smoker 20 years to develop these lines.

“For Kim pouting like this, it might take her longer. “I do not know in these selfies how long she holds this pose or when she started pouting, but I would advise her to be aware.”

Westreich is a go-to specialist in the New York facial plastic surgery space, and people consistently seek his expertise to combat their fine lines and wrinkles

Whether it is to prevent smokers’ lines or those from natural aging, Westreich can usually find a treatment.

The skin around the lips, however, is said to be delicate, and he suggested that the area is susceptible to faster aging. “The skin and lines around the mouth are fragile,” Westreich explained. “These lines are also a very difficult thing to treat.

“Some patients will do some Botox — but with Botox, there is always a balance between trying to get rid of the lines without knocking out too much movement.

“If you are too aggressive with Botox around the mouth in that area, people actually can have movement issues with speaking or drinking.

“So you must not get too aggressive. “Patients may do a little bit of Botox or inject filler into any deeper lines.

“The other approach that you can take is to do a resurfacing treatment, like dermabrasion. “It takes fairly aggressive resurfacing procedures to make a dent, but patients will do all of those things.

“Sometimes they’ll do lasers as well, either resurfacing lasers or CO2-lighter lasers. “Lines around the mouth are treatable, but you have to be careful, and lower facial Botox is limited.”

While Kim’s frequent pouting rarely goes unnoticed, her boosted lips are a bit of an enigma. In 2022, the mom of four continued to deny she had ever used lip filler to get her larger-than-life lip look.

When Allure magazine asked the Skims founder if she’d had lip filler or cheek filler, Kim replied: “No filler. Never filled either one, ever.” Westreich maintained that Kim may have maybe doing lip flips.

He said as part of her lip augmentation this procedure could “decrease her lip line risk.” “If Kim is doing lips flips where Botox is used, it would not eliminate her risk of getting smokers line, ” he explained.

“If Kim has the filler in the lip and if it has not migrated into the skin of the upper lip, it is not going to have any effect on any future pouting lines.

“If the lip filler does migrate, it actually might help prevent it a little bit. “Kim will probably still get these lines from doing this repeтιтive movement and the bigger pouts.

“It is the degree of the movement that she is doing that matters.” He continued: “This is not going to happen to someone in five years — these lines are like 10, 20, 30-year phenomena.

“But it is something that Kim could be aware of. “As I said, the only way to have any sort of preventative effect would be for her to do a little bit of Botox preventatively in her upper lip. “This would make that muscle movement weaker.”