Kylie Jenner (left) in her Handmaid's Tale outfit. Photo / Instagram
Kylie Jenner has been slammed on social media for hosting a Handmaid's Tale-themed birthday party for a friend.
The reality star posted multiple pictures and video to Instagram from the event at which Jenner and friends, including model Sofia Richie, dressed up as the show's titular Handmaids to celebrate Instagram
star Stassie Karanikolaou's birthday.
The hit series, based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling 1985 novel of the same name, tells the story of a dystopian future in which the US has become a fascist state called Gilead and its women stripped of all rights, news.com.au reports.
The show's "Handmaids" are selected for their fertility and routinely raped by the men they've been forced to live with. Handmaids can be killed for even the slightest infraction and their bodies hung in public to keep the citizens of Gilead obedient to the regime.
It's an unrelentingly grim series — particularly given the current battle over women's reproductive rights being waged in several US states — but all that seemed to be lost on Jenner who posed and pouted in her Handmaid outfit:
