Kylie Jenner Covers ELLE’s November 2024 Issue

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Kylie Jenner covers ELLE’s November 2024 issue and sits down with ELLE fashion features director Véronique Hyland for a candid conversation about fame and how it has shaped her identity, the challenges of being a young mother and rediscovering her personal style after struggling with body image during her pregnancies: “The first part of my twenties was having children, learning what my personal style was and then losing it—not knowing how to dress, gaining 60 pounds for both pregnancies. It took me a year to feel like myself again,” she says. “At 27, I feel more confident and more like myself than ever.”

Kylie also discusses being more offline these days, protecting her children from social media and where her friendship with Jordyn Woods stands after a well-documented falling-out in 2019.

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On what it feels like to have been famous her whole life: “It’s really hard for me to answer that question,” she says, “because I just don’t know what it would’ve been like otherwise.” Unlike her older siblings, who can dimly recall their salad days of making Vons runs undisturbed by TMZ, there was no “before” for Jenner, no regular existence to miss. Fame, she says, “is just something I’ve learned to grow up with, or grow up in.”

On the challenges of being a young mother and adjusting to changes in her body: “I got pregnant when I was 19. Having a baby really young was more shocking, maybe, because I saw these changes happening to my body—all these new stretch marks and things that I didn’t have before.” She also experienced postpartum depression: “I felt like I was on autopilot.” Her mom friends and her sisters helped her through those dark times, and Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé have modeled working motherhood for her (plus, Khloé babysits when Jenner is out of town).

On rediscovering her personal style after struggling with body image during her pregnancies: “I haven’t had a baby in a few years. The first part of my twenties was having children, learning what my personal style was and then losing it—not knowing how to dress, gaining 60 pounds for both pregnancies. It took me a year to feel like myself again,” she says. “At 27, I feel more confident and more like myself than ever.”

On giving her younger self grace and reflecting on if she has any regrets: “I have to give my younger self grace. I don’t like to have too many regrets in life. I think my path is what got me here today,” she says. “I’m happy with where I am and just have to keep moving forward.”

On protecting her children from social media and her approach to sharing their lives online: “When I do share my children, I want it to come from me or their father.” And when it comes to getting their own accounts, “it’s no socials for as long as possible. Stormi will come home and she’ll know full TikTok dances. I’m like, ‘Where did you learn this?’” She hopes that they won’t get their own accounts “until they move out of the house,” she jokes.

On being more offline these days: “My friends and I laugh because it’s hard to keep up with the internet now. It’s exhausting. When I was posting 24/7—waking up, what I’m eating for breakfast, what I’m wearing for the day, the color of my nails, what car I’m driving, where I’m driving to—I didn’t have an intense schedule. I wasn’t working as much; I didn’t have kids and just had more time. If you’re not posting three times a day on TikTok, you fall behind.”

On where her friendship with Jordyn Woods stands after a well-documented falling-out in 2019:  “I was heartbroken” when it happened, she says. “We’ve always tried to talk through things, so it’s never been a full cold-turkey cutoff; it was needed distance. Anytime something happened, good or bad, and I needed to call someone, it would always be her. To lose that person felt really lonely, but I had to go through that. I learned so much, gained so much independence, and was there for myself. It helped me grow up a little bit, because we were so attached at the hip. I think that in order for us both to grow, she needed to spread her wings and do what she needed to do as well.”

On her views about keeping her private life private: “I think it’s important to keep things to yourself. It’s hard for me to make a decision by myself sometimes, so the opinion of the whole world…it can be tough.”

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