When you think of the Kardashian-Jenners, the word “relatable” is not one that usually comes to mind. But this year, the youngest mogul in the family is changing that, opening up about motherhood, her postpartum experience and what really happened behind the scenes when she decided to change her now two-year-old son’s name.
Kylie Jenner was just 10 years old when the first season of Keep Up With the Kardashians aired and her life since has been a whirlwind of glitz, glamour, and extreme fame. You know that, you’ve had a front-row seat.
A great source of her early fame came with the inception of her Lip Kits and it happened so suddenly that even the family likely didn’t see it coming. (That said, maybe it was Kris’ plan all along.) The Lip Kits marked her first foray into the business world, with the launch following months of speculation over what lipstick Kylie wore and how she got them to look so plump.
For many years, she wouldn’t comment on whether she had lip filler, though people always suspected that it was the real secret behind her enviable pout. In 2023, she confirmed what we all thought. “I had my one lip insecurity thing, so I got lip filler, and it was the best thing I’ve ever done,” she said in an interview with HommeGirls. “I don’t regret it.”
Her apparent openness was a refreshing shift from the tightly curated world of the Kardashian-Jenner machine. The family doesn’t do anything publicly unless it’s tightly curated, but Kylie has followed up her interview with HommeGirls by having her most relatable year yet.
In the latest season of The Kardashians, she opened up to her sister Kendall about the toll a decade of body shaming online has taken on her. “It’s a miracle that I still have confidence and can still look in the mirror and think that I am pretty,” Kylie admitted, adding that it’s exhausting to see so much commentary about your own looks.
“I am so numb to people talking about my looks at this point. I just want to know why on the internet no one says anything or they think that it is OK,” said Kylie. “I went on a journey last year, dissolving half of my lip filler. I hate even having this conversation over and over and over again because it feels like it’s a waste of my breath. I think with me, it is never going to change.”
This all comes as her beauty brand, Kylie Cosmetics, has been undergoing a full rebrand. For months, we have seen products relaunch, and if you ask this beauty editor how she feels about it, well, she feels good. The Power Plush Longwear Concealer has excellent coverage but isn’t cakey, the Precision Lip Liner is satisfyingly buttery and blendable, and the brand-new Supple Kiss Lip Glaze is glossy and pigmented. It’s hits across the board; Kylie did good.
She hasn’t stopped at creating banger products, though, In an interview with British Vogue this week, Kylie has gone deeper than she ever has before — even broaching the previously no-go subject of plastic surgery. Specifically, what led to her getting a breast augmentation as a teenager.
“That was 10 years ago now. Naturally, you’re in such a different place,” she said.“The world put a lot of pressure on a teenager, me, to make the right decisions. And I just have to be gentle with myself because although I carried so much responsibility in the moment, I was just trying to do what was best for me. I was just trying my best as a human. I have to realise: ‘It’s OK, Kylie.’ Looking back, I’m like, ‘God, I was 17, 18.’”
She also opened up about her experience with motherhood (she has two children, Stormi, 6, and Aire, 2) and revealed that she suffered from postpartum depression for a year following both of her children’s births. You may remember that after giving birth to Aire, she initially named him Wolfe, before announcing that wasn’t his name, though she didn’t reveal his true name for much longer. This, Kylie says, had a direct link to her postpartum experience.
“[Postpartum depression] hit me differently both times. Probably with my son it was major baby blues, so I was just so emotional over things that I probably wouldn’t be that emotional about [typically],” she said, explaining that she now recommends to friends that choosing the name before the hormones hit and make it impossible to make decisions.
“I felt like such a failure that I couldn’t name him. He deserved so much more than that. It just really triggered me,” said Kylie. It took her a year to settle on Aire.
If you’re still unconvinced that Kylie has entered her most relatable era yet. She also spoke about school drop off (“We have all of that.”), being the ‘young mum’ in the room, coparenting with her ex Travis Scott. One thing she won’t talk about, is her relationship with Timothée Chalamet, confusingly stating that “Privacy is so important to me in life”.
Kylie has been a polarising figure, to say the least. We won’t dispute the decades of headlines that prove it to be true. But in our opinion, she’s still the most relatable she’s ever been.
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