The Moment
A popular celebrity news site just dropped a new photo game titled, in all caps energy, something along the lines of “Hot Celebrity Butts – Guess The Top-Paid Model!” The post went up January 26, 2026, and it’s exactly what it sounds like: one close-up of a nearly bare backside, lots of cheeky copy, and a big promise of a mystery “top-paid” model.
The clues: she grew up in Malibu, you may have first seen her on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and she reportedly got her looks from her famous mom. Readers are invited to click through a gallery to reveal who she is and then test their Bravo trivia skills.
The featured shot is credited to Instagram and framed as a flirty Monday mood: it’s “makin’ it rain,” it’s “eye-popping,” it’s very much designed to stop your scrolling thumb in its tracks. The hook isn’t her work, her runway, or her campaigns. It’s her butt. Period.
The Take
I’m not clutching pearls over one glamour shot of a grown woman’s backside. Adults posting thirst traps on their own feeds? That’s their lane, their body, their brand.
What feels dated is the “Guess that body part!” framing – like we’re playing a grown-up version of a kids’ puzzle where you match the tail to the animal. Only here, the tail is a woman’s butt, and the prize is a hit of traffic for the site.
We’ve been here before. The late 2010s were the golden age of the celebrity rear end: Kim Kardashian’s Paper magazine cover, endless red-carpet “who wore it best?” backside shots, songs literally called “Booty.” The culture didn’t just notice butts; it built a shrine. So when a new gallery pops up in 2026 saying, “Guess whose buns these are,” it doesn’t feel fresh. It feels like a rerun.
The twist this time is the nepo-baby angle. The mystery woman is teased as both a “top-paid model” and a child of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills universe. Translation: this isn’t only about sex appeal; it’s also about capitalizing on two modern obsessions at once – famous offspring and famous body parts.
There’s also the empowerment vs. objectification question. A lot of models and influencers today are very intentional about their images. They pose how they want, post what they want, monetize how they want. But once an outlet crops out your face and turns your butt into a guessing game, the power shifts. You’re not a full person in that moment; you’re a riddle with glutes.
For women 40 and up – many of us raising teens or scrolling next to grandkids – this hits differently. We’ve lived through the “heroin chic” era, the “thigh gap” panic, the “BBL” boom. We know the toll all this takes on body image. So yes, we can still appreciate a beautiful body and a good bikini photo, but it’s fair to ask: Do we really need more internet games where a woman’s worth is reduced to how well we can recognize her from behind?
If you want to celebrate beauty, show the dress, show the face, show the woman owning her moment. When the whole hook is a zoomed-in butt and a winky “Guess who?,” it starts to feel less like fun and more like cultural leftovers from a decade we’re supposedly evolving past.
Receipts
Confirmed:
- On January 26, 2026, a major celebrity news site published a gallery-style post titled “Hot Celebrity Butts – Guess The Top-Paid Model!” featuring a close-up photo of a woman’s backside, credited to Instagram, and inviting readers to click through for the identity reveal and trivia about her life and reality-TV connections, according to the outlet’s own article and caption.
- The post describes the woman as having grown up in Malibu and being first seen by many viewers on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and labels her a “top-paid model,” according to the gallery text.
- The American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls (originally reported in 2007 and frequently cited since) has found that media content which focuses narrowly on girls’ and women’s body parts, rather than their whole person, is linked to negative outcomes like body dissatisfaction and lower self-esteem.
- A 2023 report from Pew Research Center on teens and social media found that a majority of teen girls feel pressure to look good online and compare themselves to images they see on platforms, especially highly edited or idealized photos of women’s bodies.
Unverified / Framed As Hype:
- The gallery calls the mystery woman a “top-paid model,” but does not provide independent data or rankings to back up where she actually falls among the industry’s highest earners.
- It’s not clear from the post whether the model formally approved her Instagram photo being repurposed specifically as a “Guess the butt” game beyond the standard permissions that apply when sharing social media images.
- The article implies that this kind of content is light, harmless fun; the long-term cultural impact on how we view women’s bodies is not addressed in the piece itself and remains a matter of debate.
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
If you haven’t been playing along at home, “Guess who?” celebrity galleries are a long-running internet staple. Sites crop or blur a famous person’s face, zoom in on one feature – a hand, a lip, a baby bump, now a butt – and dare readers to figure out who it is before clicking for the reveal. It’s quick engagement, easy ad money, and built on the idea that our bodies are recognizable brands.
Layer on top of that the world of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, where several cast members’ children have gone on to model or influence. Those offspring often get labeled “nepo babies,” shorthand for kids of famous parents who move quickly into high-profile careers. So a Malibu-raised model with a Housewives mom is classic 2020s pop culture: reality TV, social media, and fashion all rolled into one-and, here, reduced down to one body part.
What’s Next
In the short term, this gallery will do exactly what it was designed to do: spark a round of guessing, drive comment-section debates over who has the “best” body, and deliver a nice spike of traffic for the outlet. The model at the center may repost it, ignore it, or quietly roll her eyes-she’s likely used to this kind of framing by now.
In the bigger picture, we’re heading toward a fork in the road. On one side, the internet keeps serving up the same “Guess that curve!” content, because it’s simple and it still gets clicks. On the other side, there’s a growing push from women (and a lot of men) who are just… bored. We’ve seen enough of the “is it empowering or objectifying?” merry-go-round to know that the answer is usually: it depends who’s holding the camera and writing the caption.
I’d love to see outlets meet the moment with something a little more evolved: celebrate the swimsuit, the styling, the career, the personality. Let the model be a whole human being in the frame instead of a faceless rear end we’re supposed to identify like a logo.
So yes, click if you want. No shame in admiring a great bikini photo. But it might be time to retire the “Guess that butt” format to the same nostalgia shelf where we keep dial-up internet and low-rise jeans we swore we’d never wear again.
What about you: do you see these butt-guessing galleries as harmless fluff, or are you ready for celebrity coverage that moves past this kind of body-part guessing game-and why?
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