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Watch Kendall Jenner in the Cheesiest Calvin Klein Ad Ever

Photos: Calvin Klein via Fashion Gone Rogue

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Compared to most in the Calvin Klein vortex, Kendall Jenner's tenure has been pretty low key. Justin Bieber's first CK ads were followed by accusations of photoshop, Mark Wahlberg caused a commotion when he posed with a topless and only 17-year-old Kate Moss, and Eva Mendes had her fragrance commercial banned from television in the US. For CK, controversy is part of its secret sauce.

Jenner, on the other hand, has done some standard posing in her underwear — fair territory for an underwear ad — and is now rolling out her latest campaign that includes a very WTF commercial.

The ad features Jenner posing in her Calvins interspersed with scenes of two men doing choreographed dance wrestling. At the end, Jenner breaks up the fight as a voiceover plays of her saying, "Together we are stronger than we could ever be alone." Which sounds like the 100th line a copywriter came up with after Kris Jenner rejected the first 99.

This probably doesn't matter much to Kendall, who continues to rake in campaign cash and is even rumored to have her first American Vogue cover in the works.

Jenner also appears in two print ads — shot in the same room — photographed by David Sims.

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