--- title: Kendall Jenner Frees the Nipple on Instagram description: Kendall Jenner found a clever way to #freethenipple on Instagram despite the app's controversial policies on nudity. canonical: https://time.com/4560440/kendall-jenner-free-the-nipple-instagram/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-07T16:00:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:47.057Z og:title: Kendall Jenner #FreestheNipple on Instagram og:description: Despite the app's controversial policy against nudity og:url: https://time.com/4560440/kendall-jenner-free-the-nipple-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf359f3030c7171af/6988ad54656a3fd9e1bcdc1e/kendall-jenner-free-the-nipple-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "From The Land Of The Moon (Mal De Pierres)" Red Carpet Arrivals - The 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kendall Jenner #FreestheNipple on Instagram twitter:description: Despite the app's controversial policy against nudity twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf359f3030c7171af/6988ad54656a3fd9e1bcdc1e/kendall-jenner-free-the-nipple-instagram.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kendall Jenner #FreestheNipple on Instagram > Sponsored content. 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It is a free newsletter available at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-worth-2026q3/newsletters?i=148d8355-b730-4d09-8e59-83668b257d19&cr=time-nl-worth-2026q3-v1)  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Nov 7, 2016 4:00 PM UTC  Kendall Jenner attends the "From The Land Of The Moon (Mal De Pierres)" premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2016 in Cannes, (Photo by Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage) Kendall Jenner attends the "From The Land Of The Moon (Mal De Pierres)" premiere during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2016 in Cannes, (Photo by Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage) Mike Marsland—Mike Marsland/WireImage  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Nov 7, 2016 4:00 PM UTC [Kendall Jenner](http://motto.time.com/4423863/kendall-jenner-free-the-nipple/?iid=sr-link2) found a clever way to #freethenipple on Instagram. The model covered her nipples with pizza emojis in an Instagram posted on Saturday as a way to get around the social media platform’s much-scrutinized [community guidelines](https://help.instagram.com/477434105621119/), which ban nudity. In the past, the platform [has removed](http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/17/technology/instagram-nudity/) semi-nude photos posted by Rihanna, Chelsea Handler and Miley Cyrus. Instagram has faced frequent criticism for its handling of explicit photos on the service. After the platform received heat for removing a number of photos showing mothers breastfeeding or breast cancer survivors showing their mastectomy scars, Instagram [revamped its policies in April 2015](http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/17/technology/instagram-nudity/) to explicitly exempt those photos from its nudity policy. Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom [said at an event in October 2015](http://people.com/bodies/instagram-ceo-blames-apple-for-nipple-censorship/) that the app’s controversial policy was mandated by Apple, which bans nudity on apps with ratings under 17+. But some women aren’t happy with that reasoning, and argue that taking down photos of nipples suggests that female breasts are shameful. [Free the Nipple,](http://motto.time.com/4278064/kim-kardashian-emily-ratajkowski-free-the-nipple/?iid=sr-link1) a movement sparked by a 2012 documentary by director Lina Esco, has fought to allow women to bare their breasts — in public and on social media. Women have staged [topless protests](http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/free-the-nipple-protest-brighton-beach-censorship-social-media%5Fuk%5F575949ede4b041514369549f), filed [lawsuits](http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/20/federal-judge-refuses-to-dismiss-free-the-nipple-lawsuit/) against state’s nudity laws and complained to social networking platforms about strict nudity guidelines. “Why can you show public beheadings from Saudi Arabia on Facebook, but not a nipple? Why can you sell guns on Instagram, but yet they will suspend your account for posting the most natural part of a woman’s body?” Esco wrote [in a blog post in 2013](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lina-esco/free-the-nipple%5Fb%5F4415859.html). And Jenner, who has posted a number of semi-nude photos on her social media platforms before, clearly agrees. “I really don’t see what the big deal is with going braless,” Jenner wrote in [a blog post on her website earlier this year](http://motto.time.com/4423863/kendall-jenner-free-the-nipple/?iid=sr-link2). “It’s sexy, it’s comfortable, and I’m cool with my breasts. 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