Beyoncé Has Thrown Down the Gauntlet in the World's Shortest Shorts Competition

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published 9 June 2015

To coincide with her Beyhive-infuriating announcement that she's now a vegan, Beyoncé has made the most concise, convincing argument for abstaining from animal products: Her cheekily bared backside. See: above.

Painful perfection aside, Bey is *also* accomplishing another task with this pic: She's out-shorting Kendall Jenner, who, until now, was the reigning queen of underbutts and short shorts. As you can see here:

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We're not sure how hemlines could possibly get higher than Bey's, but we have a feeling there's more than one star in Hollywood thinking "Challenge: Accepted" right about now.

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Lauren Valenti is Vogue’s former senior beauty editor. Her work has also appeared on ELLE.com, MarieClaire.com, and in In Style. She graduated with a liberal arts degree from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, with a concentration on Culture and Media Studies and a minor in Journalism.

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