Kylie Jenner made a billion off of her artificial looks. Oh wait, that number was faked via forged tax returns, says Forbes. So she made hundreds of millions of dollars off her Kylie Cosmetics line. Not to mention $1.8 million per sponsored Instagram post, showing off her augmented breasts and lips.
Now she claims she regrets her surgical enhancements. But sorry, Kylie, you can’t have it both ways.
In Thursday’s Season 3 finale of “The Kardashians,” the 25-year-old social media icon admitted to getting breast implants when she was 19.
“I had beautiful breasts,” Jenner gushed to her friend Stassie Karanikolaou. “Natural tits. Just gorgeous. Perfect size, perfect everything. And I just wish, obviously, I never got them done to begin with.”
Last week on the show, she came clean about her oversized lips, after having once said, “I’m like, ‘Stop talking about my lips.’ I haven’t had plastic surgery. I’ve never been under the knife.”
To be clear, it wasn’t a knife — it was a needle.
“I’ve only gotten fillers,” Jenner said to sisters Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian on last week’s “Kardashians” episode. “I don’t want that to be part of my story.”
But how disingenuous is that? It’s not only her story, it’s her money-making brand.
It’s entirely Kylie’s right to nip and tuck as she sees fit — but the problem is that she took so long to come clean about it and implied it was all natural, while the bucks roll in and young women hold themselves to the standards she sets.
Jenner has built an empire off fans’ desire to look like her. Her makeup brand, which sells products like “lip kits,” propelled her to alleged billionaire status at age 21. But an investigation by Forbes revealed she likely inflated her net worth to earn the title of “youngest self-made billionaire.”
I saw firsthand just how much influence Jenner has had on a generation of young girls.
When I was a tween growing up on social media, Kylie was the quintessential It girl. I remember idolizing her myself, often scrolling through her Instagram feed in middle school.
Anything she wore, said or did was mimicked by girls all over the world. Many of my peers over-drew their lips with liner to look more like her. Some even begged their parents to let them get lip filler.
In fact, when Kylie first — finally — admitted she had enhanced her pout at age 17, inquiries about the procedure jumped by 70%.
On one hand, I actually do feel bad for Kylie. She grew up in the shadow of her sex symbol sister Kim Kardashian.
Imagine looking up to siblings who talk about working out in waist trainers — corsets that could be dangerous to your health — and brag of losing 16 pounds in three weeks just to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s dress for a photo op.
No surprise that Kylie, like her sisters, has been busted for using photo editing apps to make themselves look more perfect.
Khloé Kardashian once said of the photo editing app Facetune: “It’s life-changing … It’s not real, you are presenting to the world what you want them to believe you are. It’s amazing.”
Kylie, foisted in front of reality television cameras from the time she was 10 years old, must have felt enormous pressure to look not just beautiful, but perfect — as in, the definition of perfect her own family has created — while growing up in the public eye.
This is the same family that allowed her to get lip filler when she was a minor.
I’m sure Kylie genuinely meant it when she said she “would be heartbroken” if her daughter Stormi, now 5, got plastic surgery at age 19. But she’s doing little to protect her daughter from wanting to.
A quick browse of her Instagram shows Kylie in skimpy bikinis, constantly flaunting her enhanced and, at least sometimes, digitally altered body. Hey, that’s totally her prerogative. But it feels disingenuous alongside claims that she regrets having work done.
Already she’s foisting her own child into the limelight, constantly posting photos of the girl for 398 million Instagram followers to see and comment on.
It’s hard to see how Stormi won’t one day feel the exact same pressure to pursue beauty at all costs — just like so many other young girls who look up to Kylie and her sisters.
While Jenner is not entirely to blame, she’s a figurehead of an influencer culture that propels girls into self-comparison and self-loathing.
In fact, a third of young girls say using Instagram makes their body image worse. And, as social media exploded, so too did rates of depression and suicide among teen girls.
But maybe there’s a glimmer of hope.
“All of us just need to have a bigger conversation about the beauty standards that we’re setting,” Kylie recently told her sisters on the show.
Kudos to Kylie for acknowledging that uncomfortable truth about her family — but it’s got to be more than just a plot point on a TV show.
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