Kim Kardashian Christmas Decorations Spark Outrage

It seems like Kim Kardashian can't catch a break from online criticism, even at Christmas time.

The reality TV star gave her social media followers a tour of the Christmas decorations at her home in Calabasas, California, which she described as a "true winter wonderland slice of heaven."

The mom of four started outside the home she used to share with ex-husband Kanye West, showing people at least 100 real Christmas trees she had around the property and inside the house. One corridor featured 26 Christmas trees alone.

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Kim Kardashian attends the Fontainebleau Las Vegas Star-Studded Grand Opening Celebration on December 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. [BACKGROUND IMAGE] A corridor in Kardashian's home showing some of her Christmas decorations. David Becker/Instagram/Kim Kardashian

"This is truly the golden hour for me, when my kids are asleep and I get to just appreciate all of my decorations and take some time for myself," Kardashian said.

"The trees outside being all lit and white, and then going into the white tree," she said in an Instagram story as she panned around the living room and into the hallway. "Going to the forest of trees here is just so cool."

"I'll show you guys starting from the end just because this will never get old. You guys have no idea, these are all real trees so they smell so amazing and I just love the snow. It truly is heavenly."

Kardashian credited artist Jeff Leatham and event planner Mindy Weiss for helping bring her "simplistic vision" for Christmas to fruition.

The all-white trees were a sight to behold and filled the expansive home, but some people slammed Kardashian for the excess.

"That's too much, that's an overkill," commented one person on the story, which was also shared to her official Facebook page.

Another added: "That's sad. A lot of people aren't able to have a Christmas and you just flaunt your house full of trees, and you said real ones [and] that's a lot of oxygen that was removed from Mother Earth for you to have a house full of Christmas trees."

And a third replied: "Having so many trees doesn't it make it special."

But some loved Kardashian's Christmas display.

"Only what dreams are made of," wrote one person.

A second wrote: "Now that's how you decorate for Christmas."

Kardashian recently came under fire from singer Taylor Swift's fans after she opened up on the emotional toll their feud had taken.

During her interview for Time's 2023 Person of the Year, she spoke about the infamous feud with Kardashian and then husband, West, who name-checked Swift on his 2016 track "Famous," in which he made a vulgar reference to her, and she denied approving.

But Kardashian and West denied her version of events until a transcript leaked in 2020 and showed Swift had not given the green light for the lyrics in the song.

Swift told Time that at the time it felt like "a career death," because of the backlash she faced.

"Make no mistake—my career was taken away from me," she said.

"You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar," Swift said. "That took me down psychologically to a place I've never been before.

"I moved to a foreign country. I didn't leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn't trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard."

Swift's revelations led to thousands of people slamming Kardashian on social media.

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