Looking sultry in a blue bikini top and silver necklace, Kris Jenner bid adieu to summer on Instagram Sunday. "Last day of summer gonna miss you," she wrote.
The momager jumped the gun by a few days since fall does not officially start until September 21, but she apparently could not resist posting her juicy photo on the web right away. The snapshot quickly received over 95,000 "Likes," although fans' reaction to the foxy mama's publicity stunt was mixed.
"omg the fourth Kardashian," tweeted @ForeverKardash.
"Wow so damm pretty after 6kids!!!" posted @shpanja.
"So gorgeous," gushed @igentleman.
Over on Radar, however, readers were less complimentary.
"Thank you mother for not being a fake, plastic, 15 year old wanna be sending out pictures of yourself half naked...." wrote a commenter named Cornqueen.
"This hag has zero self awareness," zinged Heather Miraglia.
Even the Daily Mail couldn't resist jumping in. "Despite pretending to be all casual 'I am just floating around in my pool, in a chunky necklace with my hair done' - the snap looks pretty posed up," wrote a reporter for the British tabloid.
Of course, Kris is no stranger to controversy. She learned early in her career that any publicity is good publicity and is rumored to be the woman behind her own daughter's leaked sex tape that catapulted the family to fame.
During a game of "I Never" with daughter Khloe Kardashian Odom, she confessed on her eponymous talk show 'Kris' to having sex on an airplane with her husband Bruce Jenner.
She also hinted that she made a sex tape with her Olympian hubbie on a promotional trailer for "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."
Cynics complain that the mother of six is constantly selling out herself and her family. Even her daughter Kim's wedding to Kris Humphries was rumored to be a huge business deal, with the hoopster serving as an unwitting prop.
The bikini photo is just the latest attempt by Jenner to keep herself in the public eye, especially since her Fox TV talk show experiment may have been a big fizzle.
"It is a very crowded market and Kris didn't do anything to set herself apart from the field," a source told Radar. "Believe it or not, most of America doesn't want to hear about the Kardashians for an hour every day."
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