diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1ee6235ee20..5abb5780e1f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
    * Fix #1589: Move HorizontalPodAutoscaler to autoscaling/v1
    * Fix #1553: Allow to explicitly set non-matching field selectors using `withoutField`
    * Cleaned up kubernetes-model pom.xml
+   * Fix #1661: Remove generic parameter from KubernetesResource
 
   Dependency Upgrade
 
diff --git a/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/HasMetadata.java b/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/HasMetadata.java
index 2eb2baa84fb..b7171b9f29f 100644
--- a/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/HasMetadata.java
+++ b/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/HasMetadata.java
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  */
 package io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model;
 
-public interface HasMetadata extends KubernetesResource {
+public interface HasMetadata<E extends HasMetadata<E>> extends KubernetesResource<E> {
 
   ObjectMeta getMetadata();
   void setMetadata(ObjectMeta metadata);
diff --git a/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResource.java b/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResource.java
index 809ba69a46d..8bd76099879 100644
--- a/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResource.java
+++ b/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResource.java
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@
 import java.io.Serializable;
 
 @JsonDeserialize(using = KubernetesDeserializer.class)
-public interface KubernetesResource<E extends io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.HasMetadata> extends Serializable {
+public interface KubernetesResource extends Serializable {
 }
diff --git a/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResourceList.java b/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResourceList.java
index 1d9584bf48e..66b70a2e1c2 100644
--- a/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResourceList.java
+++ b/kubernetes-model/kubernetes-model/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/api/model/KubernetesResourceList.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 import java.io.Serializable;
 
 @JsonDeserialize(using = KubernetesDeserializer.class)
-public interface KubernetesResourceList<E extends io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.HasMetadata> extends Serializable  {
+public interface KubernetesResourceList<E extends io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.HasMetadata<E>> extends Serializable  {
 
   ListMeta getMetadata();