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‘Real Housewives’ Star Slams ‘Racist’ Drawing of Her in Emotional Post<!-- wp:html --><p>Casey Durkin/Getty Images</p> <p><em><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/the-real-housewives">Real Housewives of Beverly Hills</a> </em>star Annemarie Wiley took to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/instagram">Instagram</a> on Saturday to slam a racist caricature of her. “Drawing a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/black-americans">black woman</a> as a gorilla is disgusting and completely unacceptable!” Wiley fumed. “This is an entirely different level of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/racism">RACISM</a> and HATRED!”</p> <p>The drawing was featured on a popular digital art account with over 90,000 followers that often posts unflattering mock-ups of celebrities with comically enlarged features. It depicts Wiley with extremely exaggerated chest, arm, and shoulder muscles and a dark, heavy brow. </p> <p>In her response, Wiley criticized the artist for repeating racist tropes about Black women and for seemingly mocking her profession as a nurse anesthetist by adding a propofol bottle as a necklace pendant.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/real-housewives-star-annemarie-wiley-slams-racist-drawing-of-her-in-emotional-post">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Annemarie Wiley took to Instagram on Saturday to slam a racist caricature of her. “Drawing a black woman as a gorilla is disgusting and completely unacceptable!” Wiley fumed. “This is an entirely different level of RACISM and HATRED!”

The drawing was featured on a popular digital art account with over 90,000 followers that often posts unflattering mock-ups of celebrities with comically enlarged features. It depicts Wiley with extremely exaggerated chest, arm, and shoulder muscles and a dark, heavy brow.

In her response, Wiley criticized the artist for repeating racist tropes about Black women and for seemingly mocking her profession as a nurse anesthetist by adding a propofol bottle as a necklace pendant.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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