Kylie Jenner

**Kylie Kristen Jenner** (born August 10, 1997) is an American businesswoman, T.V. personality, socialite, media personality. She starred in the reality television series *Keeping Up With The Kardashians* from 2007 to 2021 and is the founder and owner of cosmetic company Kylie Cosmetics. She is the third-most-followed person on Instagram.

## Early Life

Kylie Kristen Jenner was born on August 10, 1997, in Los Angeles, California. The youngest daughter of former Olympic decathlete champion Caitlyn Jenner (then formerly known as Bruce Jenner) 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, and one older half-sister Cassandra Marino.

From Kris's side of the family, Jenner has three older half-sisters- Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and one older half-brother Rob.

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.

## Career

### 2007-2012: Keeping Up With The Kardashians

In 2007, Jenner, along with her parents, Kris and Caitlyn (then Bruce) and siblings, Kendall, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob, began appearing in the reality television series *Keeping Up With The Kardashians*, which chronicles the personal and professional lives of their family members. The series was successful for its network, E!, and has resulted in the creation of numerous spin-offs including *Kourtney & Kim Take Miami*, *Khloé & Lamar*, *Kourtney & Kim Take New York*, and *Kourtney & Khloé Take The Hamptons*, in which Jenner has made multiple guest appearances. The sisters hosted *Glee: The 3D Concert Movie* at the Regency Village Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles in August 2011.

In 2011, they were featured in Seventeen magazine's Style Stars of the Year, and was selected them as "Style Ambassadors" for the magazine.

The two hosted the premiere of *The Vow* in Hollywood in February 2012. The Jenners also interviewed the cast of *The Hunger Games* premiere at The Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles in March 2012.

Later in 2012, she starred alongside her sister Kendall, and mother Kris in an episode of American reality television series *America's Next Top Model.*

The Jenner sisters co-hosted the 2014 Much Music Video Awards, where Kylie made her acting debut in a promo for the show in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in June 2014.

In August 2014, the Jenner sisters appeared in singer PartyNextDoor's "Recognize" music video. She also appeared in Jaden Smith's music video for his song "Blue Ocean".

Jenner and her sister Kendall co-authored the dystopian science fiction novel "Rebels: City of Indra: The Story of Lex and Livia", which revolved around two twin girls, Lex and Livia in a "self-sustaining biosphere" put together from the remains of Earth known as Indra.

The novel was criticized upon a release as a ghostwritten work, which prompted its ghostwriter Maya Sloan to reveal that while the Jenner sisters wrote a two-page outline for what they wanted the novel to be like, Solan was truly responsible for the writing of the book.

However, the Jenner's creative director, Elizabeth Killmond-Roman, clarified that the two had numerous Skype and FaceTime calls with Solan to discuss the content of the novel. The novel was mostly panned by critics, and sold only 13,000 copies in its first four months on sale. The book was also given a sequel, "Time of the Twins", which was also co-authored by the Jenner sisters.

The Jenner sisters were booed while introducing brother-in-law Kanye West's performance at the Billboard Music Awards in May 2015.

In May 2015, an episode of *Keeping Up With The Kardashians* premiered in which Jenner admitted to getting a lip augmentation. Her enhanced lips from lip fillers created speculation and gained her publicity.

Prior to the episode's debut, Jenner stated that she merely used lip liner and over lined her lips. As a result, the practice of suctioning one's lips into a small glass in order to induce greater blood flow to swell the lips was called the "Kylie Jenner Challenge" (though there was no indication that Jenner herself employed this method). Jenner responded to this by stating, "I'm not here to try & encourage people/young girls to look like me or to think this is the way they should look."

In August 2015, Jenner announced that she would be launching her first lipstick line as a part of her self-titled lip kit under the name Kylie Lip Kit. In November 2015, the Jenner sisters appeared in singer Justine Skye's "I'm Yours" music video.

In February 2016, Jenner's cosmetic company was renamed to Kylie Cosmetics and the number of kits produced rose from an initial 15,000 to 500,000. Jenner released a three-minute-long promotional video for a series of lip glosses in March 2016, directed by Collin Tilley and starring fellow models Karin Jinsui, Maria Teigen, and Jasmine Sanders. The song in the video was revealed to be "Three Strikes" by Terror Jr., a band created on the same day as the release of the video; however, the lead singer, who was later revealed to be singer Lisa Vatale, was heavily speculated to be Jenner herself. However, Jenner subsequently denied any involvement with the band.

In 2016, she made her musical debut rapping on producer Burberry Perry's song "Beautiful Day", with Lil Yacthy, Jordyn Woods, and Justine Skye. The next month, Jenner starred in another PartyNextDoor's music video for his song "Come and See Me." In April 2017, she made a surprise appearance at the Rio Americano High School prom in Sacramento alongside junior Alberto Ochoa after hearing that his date had turned him down.

In June 2017, Jenner was placed at 59 on the Forbes Celebrity 100, which calculates the 100 highest-paid celebrities of the previous 12 months, after earning approximately Us $41,000,000, making her the youngest person on the list at 19 years old.

Jenner starred in a reality show revolving around her life, *Life of Kylie*, which premiered in August 2017. On Mother's Day 2018, Kylie Cosmetics launched makeup line called Kris Cosmetics, in collaboration with her mother Kris Jenner. Jenner and her half-sister Kim Kardashian launched their second collaboration with KKW x Kylie Cosmetics collection on Black Friday 2018 after previously launched ther first collection in 2017. The same month, she launched Kylie Cosmetics mobile app.

In April 2019, Jenner and her half-sister Kim Kardashian's KKW Beauty teamed up to launch a new fragrance. This collaboration became Jenner's first foray into fragrance and it launched on April 26. Jenner founded her own skincare brand Kylie Skin which was launched on May 22. The rband began producing dermis products, including face washes, scrubs, mositurizers and makeup removing wipes.

On June 14, 2019, Kylie Cosmetics launched their collaboration with her half-sister Khloé Kardashian called Kylie Cosmetics x Koko Kollection.

This marked their third collaboration after previously launched special collection of lip products called Koko Kollection in 2016 and the second part in 2017.

In September, Jenner announced that she was serving as the makeup artistic director for Balmain's Spring 2020 runway show at Paris Fashion Week. To celebrate the new line, Kylie Cosmetics and Balmain launched a makeup capsule makeup collection and available on September 27, the day of the show, on the Kylie Cosmetics website. This was the first time Jenner collaborated on a makeup collection with someone outside of her family's inner circle.

However, her appearance at Paris Fashion Week was canceled because she was too ill to travel to Paris for work. News surfaced she received treatment for flu-like symptoms in a hospital, which later in March 2020 she revealed in response to a post by Instagram fan account. She never had it but had a horrible strep and staph infection in the throat (bleeding from the mouth and all).

In October 2019, Jenner filed to trademark the phrase "rise and shine", a line that became a meme when footage of Jenner singing the phrase to her daughter Stormi, went viral. The hashtag #RiseandShine" reached one billion views on TikTok, making it the platfrom's fastest-growing hashtag trend. In addition to the standard "rise and shine", Jenner also filed to trademark "riiise and shiiinnee".

The latter trademark would cover clothing while the former would also apply to cosmetics. The next month, Jenner sold a 51 percent stake in Kylie Cosmetics to Coty, which owns other beauty brands including Covergirl, OPI, Rimmel, GHD and Clairol for $600 million.

In January 2020, Jenner announced she had trademarked Kylie Con, Kylie Kon, and Kylie Museum.

In the same month, her sister Kendall confirmed that a cosmetics line in collaboration with Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics was in the process. Kylie Cosmetics launched Kylie Cosmetics x Kendall Jenner on June 26, 2020. Still in the same month, Jenner announced that Kylie Cosmetics will launch a Valentine's Day Collection named after Jenner's daughter, Stormi. The Stormi Collection was launched in February 1, the same day as her daughter's birthday. Jenner made a cameo appearance in singers Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber's "Stuck With U" music video in May 2020.

The following month, the Jenner sisters addressed reports that her fashion brand Kendall + Kylie has failed to pay factory workers in Bangladesh as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was reported that the Global Brands Group (GBG) previously listed the Kendall + Kylie brand on its website.

As a result, the Jenners stated that their company is owned by a separate entity known as 3072541 Canada Inc. even though they say that their brand "has worked with CAA-GBG in the past, in a sales and business development capacity only" and that they "do not currently have any relationship at all with GBG."

In August 2020, Kylie Cosmetics launched Summer Sailor collection which marked the launch of Jenner's first-ever false lashes. In the same month, she made a cameo in Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's "WAP" music video, alongside singers Normani and Rosalía; a petition asking that Jenner's cameo be edited out of the video reached over 65,000 signatures.

Jenner topped the Forbes list of highest paid celebrities for 2020.

In August 2021, Jenner teased Kylie Swim, a new swimwear line that includes sizes for all women. On September 17, it was officially launched on Kylie Jenner's website. On September 21, she announced a new skincare and hair product line for babies, called Kylie Baby.

In January 2022, Jenner became the first woman to gain 300 million followers on the social media network service Instagram, surpassing the previous recordholder, singer Ariana Grande.

## Personal Life

In August 2014, Tyga was seen getting close with Kylie 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, Kylie and Tyga made their relationship official due to the fact she was underage. Kylie subsequently made appearances in two of Tyga's music videos, "Stimulated" and "Dope'd Up". In April 2017, they broke up.

In April 2017, Kylie was first seen with Travis Scott at Coachella. On February 1, 2018, Kylie gave birth to their daughter, Stormi. Kylie appeared in the music video for Travis's third studio album Astroworld. The couple broke up in September 2019, but quarantined together during the COVID-19 pandemic for their daughter and ended up rekindling their relationship.

On September 7, 2021, after weeks of speculation, Kylie revealed that she and Travis were expecting their second child. She gave birth to their son, Aire, on February 2, 2022.

## Trivia

* She has 7 miniature Italian greyhounds named Norman, Bambi, Harley, Rosie, Kevin, Jack, and Jill.