Kardashian: 'I was joking about Bieber'

Kim Kardashian has laughed off her recent comment that she would date Justin Bieber if he was older.

Speaking to Access Hollywood, the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star insisted that she had been joking and people should know better than to think she was serious.

"I was joking! It's like, 'Come on, people', I would never seriously date a 16-year-old, an 18-year-old, a 20-year-old. It's all in fun," she said.

"I like 'em young but even if he was legal, that's still too young for me!"

Kardashian, 29, added that she is becoming "tired" of discussing the Graduate-themed Elle feature she shot with Bieber in the Bahamas, suggesting that people were "making a big deal out of nothing" when they questioned the pair's age difference.

She recently responded to Bill O'Reilly's suggestion that the pictures were inappropriate by insisting that she and Bieber "were just having fun" and that "everyone is entitled to their own opinion on it".