It's a tough life being Kim Kardashian: Reality TV star gets paid for topping up her tan in yet another bikini

American reality TV show Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami is meant to be a chance for Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian to step out of their sister Kim's shadow.
But with their newly-single sister Kim spending the past three weeks in sunny Florida, it looks like she'll be getting plenty of screen time herself.
After spending the previous days filming on the beach, Kim slipped into not one, but two different bikinis yesterday as she posed for a photoshoot by the pool.

Golden girl: Kim Kardashian flaunts her hourglass figure in a gold bikini as she poses for a photoshoot in Loren Ridinger's Miami Beach mansion yesterday

The 29-year-old spent Thursday lounging about in the sun and talking on her mobile phone as she posed in internet entrepreneur friend Loren Ridinger's lavish Miami Beach mansion.
Kim started off the day in a gold string bikini, before changing into a white two-piece as her tan grew darker throughout the day.
The raven-haired beauty is feeling more confident with her figure after overhauling her fitness and diet at the end of last year.

It's a hard life: Kardashian lounges by the pool on her phone during the shoot

And now single again following her recent split from on/off boyfriend, American football player Reggie Bush, Kim has been flaunting her hourglass figure for prospective new suitors.
Kim's photo shoot came as the reality TV star succumbed to a practical joke by fellow socialite Nicole Richie.
The mother-of-two hacked into Kim's Twitter micro-blogging account and pretended the star was suffering from diarrhoea.

Toned and tanned: Kardashian complements her golden tan with a white bikini

After Richie first hacked in, she wrote: 'Sometimes I think I am a lesbian because HOT DAMN I think Nicole Richie is fffooooiiinnneee!'
When friend Amanda De Cadenet questioned if it was really Kim on Twitter, Richie wrote back: 'Doll WHAT are you talking about its me Kim! I'm just not myself because I've had diarrhoea all day so I'm dehydrated.'
And it soon transpired Kim's younger sister Khloe and her friend Jonathan Cheban were also in on the joke, who pretended to be concerned by writing: 'Are you ok? Kim honestly I hate it when you drink! You get so pushy!'

Blinding: Kardashian shows off her figure in a tiny bikini

Eventually Richie admitted it had been an April's Fool joke and relinquished control of Kim's Twitter back to the socialite.
She signed off with: 'Happy April Fools! Love always, Nicole, Khloe and Jonathan xoxo'
An amused Kim later added: 'Nicole Richie hacked my Twitter everyone!!!! That was hands down the funniest April Fools!!!'

Newly single: Kardashian recently split up with American football player Reggie Bush for the second time