Caitlyn Jenner has broken her silence on daughter Kendall’s controversial Pepsi ad, sticking up for the model following the backlash.
Earlier this month, Kendall starred in a new advertising campaign for the drinks company, in which she appeared at the forefront of a generic protest, culminating in her making peace with a police officer by handing him a can of Pepsi.
The ad - which carried the tagline ‘Join The Conversation’ - was eventually pulled 24 hours after first being shared online, after being dragged over the coals on social media.
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Sticking up for her daughter, Caitlyn has now addressed the controversy in a new interview with broadcaster Andy Cohen on SiriusXF.
The former Olympian and reality star said: “I saw it. Actually I was with my assistant when it came out online, I looked at it and I said ‘oh that’s so cool’. You know, it talks about ‘join the conversation’... it was cute.
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Sharing her take on the aftermath, Caitlyn added: “I felt sorry for Kendall, and then once that side of it… and I think it was a majority, because Pepsi came back and tested the commerical, and it had like 72% likes, but there was a small portion out there that obviously was very verbal.
Caitlyn later elaborated to the US edition of HuffPost: “We live in a very tough political environment, social environment.
“You have massive amounts of media looking for a story and obviously some people were looking at that commercial very differently than the way I was looking at it. I get that. And Kendall gets that too. She didn’t mean any malice.”
Kendall is yet to respond publicly to the controversy surrounding the ad, though Pepsi later issued a public apology to the model and ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ star, for “putting [her] in this position”.
Before deciding to pull the advert, Pepsi had defended it from the backlash, saying: “This is a global ad that reflects people from different walks of life coming together in a spirit of harmony. We think that’s an important message to convey.”