Image Source: Getty / Taylor Hill [1]

Never accuse Kim Kardashian of not supporting her sisters. When Kim caught wind that Lamar Odom — the former NBA star whose divorce from Khloé Kardashian was finalised in 2016 [2] — was blaming Khloé for their split, Kim hopped into clapback action with the sort of ferocity that only an older sister can muster. When an NBC executive tweeted [3] a particularly slut-shamey quote from an interview with Lamar on BET's Mancave [4], implying that the pair's breakup was only official "when she [Khloé] was on her second or third NBA player," Kim only needed five words to shut down the suggestion.

Burn!🔥 Lamar Odom on Khloe Kardashian: I knew my marriage to Khloe was over "when she was on her second or third NBA player". pic.twitter.com/grmD3j8C3q [5]

— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) January 18, 2018 [6]

Kim took Lamar's purported "burn" and flipped it on its head with a single tweet, suggesting that perhaps the marriage was actually over due to Lamar's well-publicised bad behaviour. [7]

Or second or third brothel https://t.co/iYYJ1NehOe [8]

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 18, 2018 [9]

Kim, who welcomed her third child [10] via a gestational carrier [11] only days before her savage Twitter clapback, regularly defends her family members [12] from the rumour mill. And now that Khloé is busy preparing for the birth [13] of her own child, it's good that Kim has her back!

Lesson learned — don't mess with the Kardashian ladies unless you can handle the heat of a scorching burn.

Image Source: E! [14]