Kim Kardashian has been known to court controversy to her own ends. Whether she's baring it all in a Paper magazine editorial devised to "Break the Internet", or divorcing Kris Humphries after just 72 days and raking in a cool $18 million in the process, it's evident that the veritable ringleader of the Kardashian Klan has some serious business smarts.

However, it's not all work and no play for this reality television star. As Kim often proves to her 109 million followers on Instagram, she has a knack for poking fun at herself and contrarily throwing shade at others. So if you disregard the fact that she has millions in the bank, is married to Kanye West and ate her own placenta, it appears that Kim Kardashian isn't so far removed from us after all.

Now, fans have reason to suspect that the 37-year-old made a not-so-subtle diss at Caitlyn Jenner in a recent social media post.

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The relationship between Kim Kardashian and Caitlyn Jenner has been strained for a while.

After the former Olympian came out as transgender, Kim was reportedly incredibly supportive. This all changed, however, when Jenner published her tell-all book, The Secrets of My Life. In it, the 68-year-old alleged that Kris Jenner - her ex-wife and Kim's mother - knew more about her gender identity than she previously let on.

She also implied that Kim's late father, Robert Kardashian, believed that his friend OJ Simpson was guilty of killing his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and waiter Ron Goldman - despite having served as the NFL star's defence attorney in the 1994 murder trial.

Then, in September, Kim called out Jenner in an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, asserting "I've always had Caitlyn's back. But she is a liar. She is not a good person". Two months later, Jenner disclosed that she hadn't actually spoken to her step-daughter in a year.

Given all of this, Kim's followers are giving her recent Instagram post - which features Caitlyn pre-transition, with the caption "TGIF" - some serious side-eye.

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People believed it to be rather insensitive to share an image of Caitlyn before her transition, stating that it could be read as an attack on her gender identity. "Why do I feel as if this is meant to be messy," one Instagram user wrote, while another corroborated "Damn, there is no place you won't go".

A third individual added, "Is this Kim throwing shade at Caitlyn or is it just me?"

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While Caitlyn also has a rocky relationship with her other step-children, Kourtney, Khloè, and Rob, she is purportedly close with her two biological daughters, Kendall and Kylie. The American television personality even attended Kendall's 22nd birthday party in November, along with Kris and Kim. "Kris and Caitlyn only had a brief interaction to say hello, but everyone seemed fine,” a source told People. "They were all focused on making it a special birthday for Kendall."

And despite their estrangement in April of 2017, Kim Kardashian disclosed to Ellen Degeneres that she would "always love" Jenner for all she did to help raise her and her sisters.

It's no secret that the Kardashians have distanced themselves from Caitlyn Jenner over the last year or so.

In that time, Kim, Kylie, and Khloe have all had children, Kris has been keeping up with her momager ways, and Kendall and Kourtney have most likely been investing vast portions of each day into their Instagram feeds. And Caitlyn hasn't been present for any of it.

Instead, she has remained out of the spotlight for a while, appearing in occasional interviews and popping up on chat shows every now and then to give her two cents about one thing or another - but, compared to how public the rest of the KarJenners are, she's basically faded into the background of celebrity life.

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In a recent interview, however, the former athlete opened up about why she is no longer in regular contact with her daughters - and it all started with her autobiography.

Caitlyn's memoir, titled The Secrets of My Life, caused a stir amongst the Kardashian family after it claimed that Kris Jenner knew Caitlyn was trans when they met.

"[Kris] insists that she was taken by surprise by my ultimate transition to Caitlyn, which obviously means in her mind that she did not know enough," she wrote. "On Keeping Up With The Kardashians she shed copious tears in coming to grips with it. Given what she saw, the whole reaction seemed a little puzzling then and seems puzzling now."

Meanwhile, Kris has firmly denied that she ever had any inclination that Caitlyn wanted to transition, and said she was unaware of her then-husband's cross-dressing, gender dysphoria, and breasts (which she got removed around the time Kendall was born).

So, with Caitlyn claiming one thing, and Kris claiming another, a small feud developed, and it's been snowballing ever since.

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To make matters worse, Caitlyn had already been feeling alienated by that point, as her political opinions had put her at odds with other members of the LGBTQ community. In 2016, the trans community turned on her after she expressed her support for Donald Trump and appeared ignorant about many issues which affect transgender individuals - particularly trans women of color.

"I got the trans community out there bashing on me, I got the Kardashians out there bashing on me," she said in an interview with Broadly. "All I do is sit here in the house and try to stay out of trouble."

So, really, Caitlyn is keeping her distance from her family in order to maintain a peaceful lifestyle. She's already said all she had to say in her book (perhaps too much), and now there's nothing much more she can do to argue her case.

However, she also continues to speak fondly of her kids, and says that a lot of the distance between them is simply down to life getting in the way.

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"I spend a lot of time by myself here in the house," she said. "I have a lot of children, but sometimes just because of circumstances, maintaining a close relationship with your kids is very tough. They all have lives. They’ve all moved on."

She continued: "We’re just human beings; we’re going to be here for a very short time. We come and we go and at the end, when it’s all said and done, hopefully your family is going to be there."

Hopefully, the Kardashians will patch things up with Caitlyn soon, and the family can put their differences behind them.

Caitlyn Jenner has opened up about her divorce from reality television star, Kris Jenner.

Speaking to Rob Lowe on his Literally! podcast, the former Olympian revealed that her being trans was "not a big part" of her divorce from Kris, who she was married to for 23 years.

"There were so many other bigger issues out there," she told the actor, before conceding that "because of my frustration with myself I might have been a little bit shorter with her, you know, near the end."

"There was a lot, boy there was a lot of things going on," Caitlyn continued. "And then all of a sudden we didn't have any issues," she added, detailing that this was when they realized that their differences were irreconcilable.

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The 70-year-old said that they were "calm" when they realized the state of affairs: "You know it's not working. I know it's not working," she said.

She told Lowe that she immediately wanted Kris to have the house, and Kris - whom she shares daughters Kendall and Kylie Jenner with - quickly offered to help find a place for her.

"I want you to feel comfortable," Caitlyn recalls Kris telling her. "She even found the place, she decorated the place, she did everything in Malibu."

Caitlyn, who appeared on Keeping Up with the Kardashians for a number of years, then proceeded to speak about how she was hounded by the press throughout her transition, and that she struggled to maintain any sense of privacy.

At one point she even recalled seeing in a tabloid a "woman's body with my head on top. And my kids gotta see this."

Finally, Caitlyn said that when she shared her new name with her step-daugher, Kim Kardashian, her first reaction was "Good, you stayed with the K's."

"I went, 'No, I'm going with a C,'" Caitlyn laughed. "Yes, I had to break it to her easily. I said, 'There's got to be a little separation between church and state.'"

Kris Jenner has opened up about being unfaithful after she was grilled by her daughter on the latest episode of The Kardashians.

Speaking to Khloe Kardashian on Thursday's episode of their popular reality TV show, the mom-ager got real about her relationship with her ex, Robert Kardashian Sr.

The pair were married for 12 years until their divorce in 1991 and had four children: daughters Kourtney (born 1979), Kim (born 1980), Khloe (born 1984), and son Rob (born 1987).

When questioned about why she had cheated on someone she loved, Kris credited the mistake to her mindset at the time.

"I think being really young and dumb is something that plays into it because you don't really understand the consequences of your actions," she said during the October 26 episode.

As for the exact reason behind her infidelity? The 67-year-old admitted that all these years later she's still not sure if she has a concrete answer.

"I don't know, because he was such a great husband and such a great dad," she explained to Khloe. "And I think that I fell into a situation where I thought that the grass was greener somewhere else and I made a huge mistake. That's like my life's biggest regret."

But the pair seemingly kept up a close relationship, even after their divorce up until Robert's death in 2003 from esophageal cancer.

"We talked on the phone all day long, helped each other through things all the time," she says in a confessional. "And I did have regrets. I thought, 'Wow, what I was thinking?'"

And while Kris stated that she may have her regrets about her rocky past, she believes everything worked out as it was meant to.

"You know, I'm not proud of the way that I behaved during that time, but you know what?" she told her daughter. "Everything happens for a reason. I really do live my life by thinking God has a plan. And without that whole thing happening, there never would've been Kendall and Kylie."

The news comes after the mom-of-six got candid about what she hopes for Khloe after the multiple cheating scandals she was forced to endure at the hands of her ex, Tristan Thompson.

"I just want Khloe to be really careful when she makes these decisions and she has to let somebody go." Kris said.

Khloe and Tristan share two children, True, 5, and Tatum, 1, who they co-parent amicably.

Speaking to Hollywood Life last year, an insider told the publication that despite being hurt multiple times by the basketball star, Khloe is committed to doing what is best for her children.

"Khloe still wants Tristan there for the special moments, she feels it’s important for her kids to have those memories with him and bond," the source said. "She’s aware that people are going to have opinions about her inviting him around but she’s not going to let that stop her from doing what’s best for her kids."

They also stated that "it wasn't easy for her" but she put her own feelings aside to allow her children to spend time with their father.

"It actually took a lot of strength for her to be able to put aside her own anger and pain and allow for him to be there for Halloween with the kids," the insider continued. "It certainly isn’t easy for her, but she’s doing it because him having a bond with their children is more important to her than letting her own feelings run the show. Does it make it easy for her? No.

"But she doesn’t care because the happiness of her children comes above all else," they concluded.

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