Kylie Jenner
Kylie Kristen Jenner (born August 10, 1997) is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman.
Kylie Jenner starred in the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians from 2007 to 2021 and then the Hulu reality television series The Kardashians from 2022.
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Kylie Kristen Jenner
August 10, 1997 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| Years active | 2007–present |
| Known for | Founder of Kylie Cosmetics |
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| Relatives | Kardashian family |
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She is the founder and owner of cosmetic company Kylie Cosmetics. She is the fifth-most-followed person on Instagram.
At age 14 in 2012, Jenner collaborated with the clothing brand PacSun with her sister Kendall, and created a line of clothing, Kendall & Kylie.
In 2015, she launched her own cosmetics line called Kylie Lip Kits, which was renamed to Kylie Cosmetics the following year.
Jenner has been an influential figure in pop culture since the mid-2010s.
In 2014 and 2015, Time magazine listed the Jenner sisters on their list of the most influential teens in the world, citing their considerable influence among youth on social media.
In 2017, Jenner was placed on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list, making her the youngest person to be featured on the list. Jenner starred on her own spin-off series, Life of Kylie, which premiered in 2017.
Jenner’s wealth and its coverage in Forbes has been a source of controversy in the past.
In 2019, the magazine estimated Jenner’s net worth at US$1 billion and called her the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at age 21; the notion of Jenner being self-made has been controversial.
In May 2020, Forbes released a statement accusing Jenner of forging tax documents so she would appear as a billionaire.
Early life
Kylie Jenner was born on August 10, 1997, in Los Angeles, California.
The youngest daughter of former Olympic decathlete champion Caitlyn Jenner (then known as Bruce Jenner) and television personality and businesswoman Kris Jenner (née Houghton).
From both of her parents’ side, she is of Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, with some Welsh ancestry from her father’s side. Jenner has an older sister, Kendall, and eight older half-siblings.
From Caitlyn’s side of the family, she has three older half-brothers―Burt, Brandon, and Brody Jenner―and one older half-sister Cassandra Marino.
From Kris’ side of the family, Jenner has three older half-sisters―Kourtney, Kim, Khloé―and one older half-brother Rob Kardashian. Her parents divorced in 2015, prior to her father’s transition.
Jenner attended Sierra Canyon School, where she was also a member of the cheerleading team.
Jenner claims to have performed in plays while attending school, along with community plays.
In 2012, she became homeschooled and enrolled in an at-home education program, from which she graduated with a high school diploma in July 2015 from Laurel Springs School in Ojai, California.
Personal life
Relationships
In 2011, Kylie Jenner dated Australian singer Cody Simpson.
In August 2014, Tyga was seen getting close with Jenner at her 17th birthday party. Days later, Tyga ended his relationship with Blac Chyna, his fiancée and the mother of his son.
In 2015, when she turned 18, Jenner and Tyga made their relationship official.
Jenner subsequently made appearances in two of Tyga’s music videos, “Stimulated” and “Dope’d Up”. In April 2017, Jenner and Tyga broke up.
In April 2017, Jenner was first seen with Travis Scott at Coachella. On February 1, 2018, Jenner gave birth to their daughter.
Jenner appeared in the music video for “Stop Trying to Be God”, from Scott’s third studio album Astroworld.
They broke up in September 2019, but quarantined together during the COVID-19 pandemic for the sake of their daughter and ended up rekindling their relationship.
On September 7, 2021, after weeks of speculation, Jenner revealed that she and Scott were expecting their second child. Jenner gave birth to their son on February 2, 2022.
In January 2023, it was reported that the couple had split up again.
Since April 2023, Kylie has been dating actor Timothée Chalamet. They were seen kissing at the 81st Golden Globes.
Friendship with Jordyn Woods
In 2012, Jenner and Jordyn Woods met through their mutual friend, Jaden Smith, son of Hollywood actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith.
They were close friends for many years, with Woods appearing in Jenner’s 2017 reality TV show, Life of Kylie, and Jenner’s 2018 pregnancy video.
In September 2018, Kylie Cosmetics launched the Kylie x Jordyn collection, a collaboration between the two friends.
Their friendship ended in 2019 as a result of Woods cheating with Tristan Thompson, who was the fiancé of Jenner’s half-sister Khloé Kardashian.
Jenner discontinued her Woods-named lip kit, cutting the price to eliminate remaining inventory. In July 2023, Jenner and Woods made their first public joint outing together since the scandal.
In November 2023, Jenner spoke about the state of their friendship revealing that the two had “never fully cut each other off.”
Controversies
Forbes cover
Kylie Jenner appeared on the cover of the August 2018 issue of Forbes. The magazine claimed she had a net worth of $900 million and that she was on the verge of becoming the youngest “self-made” billionaire.
This would beat Mark Zuckerberg, who became a billionaire at age 23. However, the publication’s use of the term “self-made” sparked widespread criticism and jokes online.
Critics argued that Jenner was already born into fame and fortune. Some discussions took a more serious tone, with journalists writing pieces on wealth distribution, inequality and inheritance, as well as upward mobility in society.
However, celebrities such as Jenner’s half-sister Kim Kardashian and socialite Paris Hilton have come out and defended Jenner, legitimizing assertions that she is indeed self-made,
While Hilton who was born into the Hilton family also described herself as self-made.
In May 2020, Forbes released a statement accusing Jenner of forging tax documents so she would appear as a billionaire. The publication also accused her of fabricating revenue figures for Kylie Cosmetics.
The same day, Jenner responded in a series of tweets, writing: “What am I even waking up to? I thought this was a reputable site… All I see are a number of inaccurate statements and unproven assumptions lol.
I’ve never asked for any title or tried to lie my way there EVER. Period”. Jenner’s attorney also demanded that Forbes retract the statements, calling the magazine’s accusations “unequivocally false”.
Forbes reacted, stating that they spent months uncovering the facts and concluded that,
Their “extensively-reported investigation was triggered by newly-filed documents that revealed glaring discrepancies between information privately supplied to journalists and information publicly supplied to shareholders”.
However, Jenner became the youngest person on Forbes‘s list of 100 Richest Self-Made Women in October 2020. She is the only person on the list in her 20s, and is worth $700 million.
Underpaying factory workers
Remake, a non-profit, labeled Global Brands Group as the manufacturer for the Kendall + Kylie clothing line.
The organization claimed that money was being withheld from workers in the factories despite having finished their work. The organization also reported them firing workers in Los Angeles, affecting over fifty-thousand workers.
She received criticism for this on multiple platforms, with fans asking her to pay her workers. In response to this, the clothing line said that Kendall + Kylie was not owned by Global Brands Group.
Lawsuits and civil disputes
Vlada Haggarty
In January 2017, make-up artist Vlada Haggarty claimed that Kylie Jenner had stolen the creative style and aesthetic of her own work,
Such as the dripping gloss lip and golden finger tips, for her own products, and that Jenner had a history of taking Haggerty’s original dripping lip art and passing it off as her own.
Jenner later credited Vlada on social media and her work on the creation of the logo and an undisclosed settlement was paid to avoid any future legal issues.
“Kylie” trademark
In February 2017, Australian singer Kylie Minogue won a legal battle against Jenner for the name trademark “Kylie”.
Jenner had filed a U.S. trademark application for use of the name “Kylie” for “advertising services” and “endorsement services” in 2015.
Neon lip logo
Sara Pope, a British painter whose work has been featured in art galleries in several cities across the globe, filed a lawsuit against Jenner and NBC Universal for the use of a neon lip logo.
Pope stated that Jenner posted to her social media accounts an image that was remarkably similar to Pope’s most famous piece, “Temptation Neon” and used it to promote Jenner’s TV series Life of Kylie.
TMZ reported that the production art created for the series, including the lip design, was created by a third party designer.
Seed Beauty
Seed Beauty filed a lawsuit against Coty and Kylie Cosmetics, alleging that Coty has purchased $600 million in Kylie Cosmetics stock from Jenner as a subterfuge to learn trade secrets.
Endorsements
Jenner has two nail lacquers from the Nicole by OPI nail polish brand called Wear Something Spar-kylie and Rainbow in the S-kylie.
Jenner and her sister Kendall earned $100,000 each for their OPI endorsements in 2013.
On November 15, 2013, the Jenner sisters announced that they would launch The Kendall & Kylie Collection with PacSun which launched in February 2013.
Since its conception, the sisters have released several collections for this line. In July 2013, the Jenner sisters launched a jewelry line with Pascal Mouawad’s Glamhouse to create the Metal Haven by Kendall & Kylie jewelry collection.
In February 2014, she and Kendall launched a shoe and handbag line for Steve Madden’s Madden Girl line.
Jenner launched a line of hair extensions through a partnership with Bellami Hair, called Kylie Hair Kouture, in October 2014. She became skincare brand Nip + Fab’s second-ever ambassador in March 2015.
In June 2015, the Jenner sisters launched their clothing line Kendall + Kylie with British fashion retailer Topshop.
This Topshop clothing line also featured swimsuits. In September 2015, the Jenner sisters launched their personalized website and mobile app, called Kendall and Kylie.
Jenner partnered with nail polish brand Sinful Colors and launched a 20 pieces nail polish collection in 2016.
In fall the same year, Jenner was announced to be the new face of PUMA along with Rae Sremmurd. In 2017, Jenner became the face of Beats Headphones special edition collection in collaboration between Apple and Balmain.
Jenner collaborated with Melbourne-based sunglasses brand Quay Australia to release a line of sunglasses, Quay x Kylie. This collaboration was launched in June 2017.
She endorsed Calvin Klein along with her sisters in 2018. In the same year she signed a deal with Adidas to become their ambassador.
Jenner also had endorsed hair vitamin SugarBearHair, Waist Gang Society waist trainer, monthly beauty subscription service Boxycharm, detox tea Fit Tea and Fashion Nova.
In 2018, Jenner reportedly made $1 million per sponsored Instagram post, making her the highest paid individuals on Instagram in 2018.
The next year Jenner reportedly made $1.2 million per sponsored Instagram post, leaving her as the highest paid individual on Instagram for the second year in a row.
Philanthropy
Jenner set up an eBay account where she auctions old clothing to raise money for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
She joined her sisters Khloé and Kendall, along with Lil Twist, and The Game at PINZ bowling alley in Studio City, California for a charity bowling game on January 19, 2014.
The event was held to raise money for The Robin Hood Foundation, a nonprofit for which The Game pledged to raise $1 million in donations.
The Jenner sisters participated in singer Chris Brown’s two Kick’n It For Charity Celebrity Kickball games in Glendale, California on July 19, 2014 and on August 16, 2014.
At the first game, she competed on actor/singer Quincy Brown’s team.
In December 2015, Jenner made a donation of Christmas gifts to the Los Angeles LGBT Teen Center.
In January 2017, Jenner donated $10,000 to her then-friend Jordyn Woods to help cover memorial costs for Woods’s father after he died from cancer.
On her birthday in the same year, Jenner announced on her Instagram she donated $500,000 from sales of her Birthday Collection to Teen Cancer America,
An organization to help hospital and outpatient facilities develop special units for teens with cancer.
Jenner is an ambassador for Smile Train, a charity that funds surgery for children with cleft lips and palates.
She became one of the organization’s youngest ambassadors. Jenner visited Peru with Smile Train on an episode of Life of Kylie.
In 2016, Jenner launched a special-edition lip kit called “Smile”, and donated $159,500 to Smile Train to fund cleft lip and palate surgeries for 638 deserving children.
In September 2019, during her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jenner donated $750,000 to the founder and members of a feminist organization in Florida called Nest of Love,
Which is dedicated to mentoring young women, helping low-income kids in the community, and promoting female empowerment.
In January 2020, Jenner gave a total of $1 million to five organizations in Australia to help tackle the bushfires.
In March 2020, Jenner, her mother Kris,
Along with beauty company Coty donated over 6,000 pounds of hand sanitizers to Southern California hospitals to help health care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jenner also donated $1 million to buy face masks, face shields, and other protective gear for health-care professionals who work on the front lines.
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