Kim Kardashian addresses rumors that 'The Kardashians' faked a tear using CGI: 'Isn't that expensive?'

• Kim Kardashian denied that "The Kardashians" had CGI'd a tear onto her face.
• In a season two clip, she dabbed at the corners of her eyes, but didn't catch a fallen tear.

Kim Kardashian denied that "The Kardashians" had faked her crying by using CGI to show a tear on her face, saying that it was "expensive" to do so.

On season three, episode eight of "The Kardashians," which aired Thursday on Hulu, Kim, her sister Khloé, and Scott Disick spoke about some of the more ridiculous rumors surrounding the family over Mexican food and margaritas. Among them was one theory that Kim had generated a tear on her face in post-production, as Cosmopolitan reported in September 2022.

"Who would CGI a tear?" Kim asked, after an image of the Cosmopolitan headline appeared briefly on screen.

"Well obviously, nobody," Khloé and Scott replied, their voices overlapping while lampooning "idiots" and a "loser" who has "too much time on their hands." In a later confessional, Khloé said that "no one is CGI-ing nothing" on their show.

The tear in question fell onto Kim's waterline in the season two premiere of "The Kardashians," which focused on the birth of Khloé's second child with Tristan Thompson via surrogate. During a confessional in which she emotionally said Khloé deserved happiness, Kim wiped at the corners of her eyes, not quite catching a tear that had fallen just below her pupil. As Cosmopolitan reported at the time, people debated on TikTok whether or not the tear had been artificially generated.

"I thought it was funny, 'cause when I saw that viral video, you're just, you're touching here and here," Khloé said. "But your tear was like right, perfectly centered or something. You just missed it."

In a confessional, Kim denied again that the tear was artificial.

"Definitely not a CGI tear. Isn't that expensive?" She said.