Following the publication of an unedited, natural-looking snapshot of Khloe Kardashian by a member of her staff over the weekend, it began circulating online.

The Kardashians’ crisis management team has worked feverishly to delete the photo from the media, including issuing “legal threats” to remove the bikini image.

The candid photo of Khloe Kardashian in a bikini that has been circulated this week displays the reality star in a way that we haven’t seen her before.

The picture caused outrage around the globe because it seemed to show how much Khloe filters her Instagram photos.

Representatives for the TV star and media celebrity have been attempting to persuade numerous Instagram accounts to delete copies of the picture.

Fans have celebrated Khloe’s sunny smile, but her family has had a somewhat different response, allegedly scrambling to have it taken down from the internet because it deviates from the Kardashians’ normal highly curated social media appearance.

Despite the fact that she looks beautiful in the unfiltered picture, it shows no similarity to the heavily edited photos Khloe normally posts online.

According to Page Six, several accounts that reposted the picture and hailed it as “beautiful” have now sent “legal threats” demanding that it be removed because Kardashian evidently did not approve it.

When the article was shared, a source close to the popular family assured The Sun that Khloe “completely lost it” and needed it taken down “as soon as possible.”

The photo was apparently taken at Kris Jenner’s home in La Quinta, California, where the Kardashian family just spent Easter.

“The color edited photo was taken of Khloé during a private family gathering and posted to social media without permission by mistake by an assistant,” Tracy Romulus, chief marketing officer for KKW Brands, said in a tweet.

“Khloé looks beautiful but it is within the right of the copyright owner to not want an image not intended to be published taken down.”

According to a source, the KUWTK star and her staff had a “miscommunication” on “what was supposed to be posted at the time.”

“She was freaking out and within minutes the photo already began circulating everywhere,” the source said.