Woman attack Kim Kardashian on red carpet with cooking powder

Kim Kardashian & Mum

Kim Kardashian was left humiliated when she was attacked with flour on the red carpet at her own perfume launch. The 30-year-old reality star was covered in the cooking ingredient after an unidentified Asian woman pelted her at the launch of True Reflection at The London Hotel in West Hollywood. Kim arrived wearing a black blazer, leather trousers and a bright blue blouse, but within minutes she looked more like a dowdy housewife after a kitchen mishap. Kim's whole back and shiny hair was covered in the substance, which was later determined as cooking flour. After the attack, Kim, who arrived at the hotel with her mother Kris Jenner, was ushered into a private room where she removed her doused jacket and brushed the flour off the rest of her outfit and long brunette locks. According to reports the woman ran off after she threw the flour, but didn't get very far when Kim's representation intercepted her and held onto her before security took over. Moments before the assailant launched their attack, Kim was blissfully unaware of what was to come, happily posing for pictures and doing interviews with the press.

The reality starlet opted to go back to the event following the fracas, and the assailant was arrested by police who were called to the scene. The fire department was also called to the scene to inspect the substance, which after several minutes they determined as cooking flour.

After she returned to the event Kim laughed off the ordeal and even made a joke in light of the incident. “That probably is the craziest, unexpected, weird thing that ever happened to me,” she declared.

Kim has not pressed charges over the incident and the unidentified woman has been released. The attack may have quite possibly have come from a protester opposing Kim's love affair with fur. In November Kim was the target of a PETA campaign.

Kim's little sister Khloe immediately took to her Twitter account to express both her outrage and praise for her sister's dignified reaction after the flour pelting.

She wrote: 'I'm proud of how Kim handled the situation.' She then later added in defense: 'I wish I was with my sister tonight. I bet you that woman wouldn't have dared tried a thing...'