Khloe Kardashian ‘Feels Pressure’ to Match ‘Filtered’ Image, Spends ‘Hours’ Setting Up Perfect Photos: Source

Khloé Kardashian is a perfectionist when it comes to her social media appearance, according to a source.

While the Good American co-founder, 41, claimed on the July 16 episode of her Khloé in Wonder Land podcast that she doesn’t photoshop her pictures anymore, a source tells Star, she still “feels this pressure to live up to this filtered version of herself.”

“She spends hours setting up the perfect shot, between the lighting and the glam session, it’s a full production every single time just to take a selfie,” the source reveals. “And she won’t stop at one. She’ll take hundreds of nearly identical photos, then obsess over which one to post.”

The source explains that after The Kardashians star gets opinions from her team, she “still goes back and forth over which one to post.”

“It’s never just snap and go,” the source shares. “It takes hours to get something she feels is worthy of posting.“

The source adds that the reality TV personality has her phone on her at all times, “because she’s built this image that’s so curated.”

On the July 16 podcast episode, the Keeping up with the Kardashians alum admitted that she doesn’t consider herself very “photogenic” and copped to taking hundreds of photos to find one that she likes.

However, Kardashian also said her Photoshopping days were behind her — a claim that fans didn’t buy.

“I don’t [Photoshop photos], but there was a time that I definitely did,” she told listeners. “There was a time that I was around some people that would make me feel like I needed to. I also think it was the era, too. I felt like a lot of people were Photoshopping or heavily Photoshopping more than they do now.”

“I do feel like there was a time that we all just got consumed in this filter lifestyle, and we couldn’t see ourselves without a filter,” Kardashian recounted. “And there’s definitely days that I’m like, ‘Ugh, I need a filter, I don’t feel good about myself.’ But I’m on video. And I do like myself better in video than stills.”

The media personality noted that she didn’t even know what she looked like in real life because people in her circle would retouch her photos before showing them to her.

“If they took my photo, they would make me look that way before giving it to me. And then I would think that’s how I looked,” she admitted. “And if I got paparazzied, I’d be like, ‘I don’t look like that. I look like this photo.’”

“I really had to reprogram my mind to think, ‘Okay, we have to lay off the filters. This isn’t real,’” she shared. “’That’s not how I look. And I don’t want to look like that.’”