Is Kanye West behind the deletion of Amanda Lepore from the cover of Travis Scott’s latest album?
Lepore, who was born a boy but now resembles Jessica Rabbit, posed for the cover of “Astroworld,” shot by David LaChapelle.
But her naked image was erased when the cover came out last week, and some fans accused the rapper of transphobia.
“I’m curious why I’m not on the picture @travisscott posted,” Lepore wrote. “A girl can’t help it!❗ Too distracting for the eyes! Upstaged everyone in the photograph! Oh well.”
Scott said in a statement, “Yo Amanda you did upstage everyone even me … Sorry for the misunderstanding.”
But some see the hand of Kanye behind Lepore’s deletion.
In Lepore’s memoir, “Doll Parts,” published last year, she tells the story of a rapper with whom she had sex at the gym at a San Francisco hotel shortly before he got married to a woman with “a similar body type to me.”
Kanye’s wife, Kim Kardashian, who is also suspected of surgical enhancements, has the same hourglass figure as Lepore.
“Everyone assumed Amanda was referring to Kanye,” said a source close to Lepore.
Scott has worked with Kanye, is dating Kim’s half-sister Kylie Jenner and is the father of Kylie’s baby, Stormi.
“Kanye is behind Amanda’s removal from the cover,” said my source. “These things are related.”
A spokesman for West had no comment, but an insider said, “Kanye had nothing to do with it.” Before Lepore’s book came out last year, “he didn’t even know who she was.”