Kim Kardashian raised quite a few eyebrows with her recent nude photo shoot for Paper magazine.

During an appearance on the Australian show "The Project," the reality television star discussed the photos, which have incited backlash due to the belief that the magazine pictures are inspired by racist stereotypes.

"My back hurt for about a week after that shoot ... I used muscles!" said Kardashian, addressing the process of posing for the magazine spread, which was photographed by Jean-Paul Goude.

Referring to Goude, Kardashian said, "He has an art of posing you and it was definitely not comfortable."

During the interview, the show's host Rove McManus attempted to do Kim's pose of balancing a champagne glass on her backside.

As McManus struggled, Kardashian teased, "You don't have as big a butt as I do."

Kardashian also addressed her critics and defended her decision to pose naked for the magazine.

"I was so honored and excited to work with [Goude] because he is a legend, and for me that was something I wanted to do to make myself feel confident," she said on The Project. "As a role model I'm not saying anyone else should do that, but for me it was an art project and it taught me to do what you want to do."

"I'm never one to preach, but I felt really positive and really good about myself," said the KUWTK star. "I love the photos, I did it for me. I hope other people like them."

Kardashian did not, however, discuss the criticism that her Paper photos are believed by many to be inspired by racist stereotypes.

The shot of Kim and the champagne glass is actually a recreation of a photograph taken by Goude in 1976 entitled "Carolina Beaumont," also known as "The Champagne Incident."

The photo, in which Beaumont balanced a glass of champagne on her rear end while posing completely naked, has been considered racist and an act of fetishizing the body of black females.

Goude, who had a tumultuous affair and professional relationship with Jamaican model/singer/actress Grace Jones, often portrayed the bodies of black females in exaggerated, eroticized poses.

"I had jungle fever," Goude famously told People in 1979, explaining his method of creating his form of art.

So while Kardashian loves the photos Goude snapped of her, it is unclear if she is unapologetic about their ugly racial history or simply ignorant to "Carolina Beaumont" and the actual inspiration behind the photo shoot.