Treason (n): the criminal act of betraying one’s country by insulting a Kardashian, punishable by social media death. This week’s defendant is Academy Award winner and Alice Through the Looking Glass star Anne Hathaway.
Before her big Hollywood premiere earlier this week, Hathaway posted a clever meme of costar Helena Bonham Carter looking a little less than glamorous. Carter is pictured wearing what looks like a pajama top, and her hair is disheveled. To complete the pièce de résistance is a white coffee mug clutched tightly to her chest—TBH, this could easily be mistaken for any one of us on Monday mornings.
The joke is in the caption, which reads: “In a world of Kardashians… Be a Helena Bonham Carter.” But what we took to mean, “Be true to yourself, embrace your natural beauty and enjoy your downtime,” others interpreted as a stab at the royal family of reality television.
Poised and graceful as she is, Hathaway quickly removed the post once she realized her unintended faux pas, replacing it with an equally witty meme: “Post removed for unintended shade thrown.”
Beauty, brains and a kickass sense of humor—Hathaway will always be one of our faves. Besides, she was royalty long before the Kardashians took over.