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Kim Kardashian apologizes for blog post about pet chimp

4:30 PM, February 25, 2009

Kim Kardashian is apologizing for a recent blog post in which she describes 
her family's recent addition of a pet chimpanzee named Suzy.  The post was 
published on Kardashian's website within a week of the chimpanzee attack that 
left a woman in critical condition and the chimp dead.

"I understand my timing was not appropriate and it was insensitive of me, so 
I want to explain. The pictures I posted are from six months ago when we were 
filming Season Three of 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians,' " the reality TV 
star wrote in the new post, dated Monday.  

Kardashian says the post about Suzy was written prior to the chimpanzee 
attack and scheduled to publish as a preview of sorts to the upcoming third 
season of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."  The show stars Kim, her sisters 
Kourtney and Khloe,  socialite mother Kris, and Kris' husband, athlete Bruce 
Jenner.  

"My mom has been begging Kourtney, Khloe and I to settle down and have kids, 
so we thought it would be funny to rent a baby chimpanzee for a week and 
leave her with my mom," Kardashian says.  "We don't still have Suzy, she was 
just rented for a week! You guys will see what happens this season with 
Suzy!"  

Responding to commenters' outrage about the insensitivity of posting the 
pictures so soon after the Massachusetts attack, Kardashian writes, "My mom 
and I saw it on the news and heard the 911 calls and we both cried! Our 
family is praying for everyone involved in that traumatizing attack."

Is Kardashian's apology good enough for you?  Are you relieved that the 
family only rented a chimp rather than buying one?  (And do you, like us, 
wonder Where on earth can one rent a chimp?)

--Lindsay Barnett