From a reality show childhood to a billion-dollar beauty business, motherhood to the Met Gala, the youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner family opens up to VANITY FAIR’s Nate Freeman about family life, having more children, the playbook on navigating fame and fortune, and the public relationships she inherited from the other famous women in her family.
Kylie, on her current priorities…
“In the last years of my 20s, I want to focus on just me, my businesses, my work, traveling with my kids, enjoying my kids, and then…” she says coyly. “I do want to have more kids….”
On growing up in the Keeping Up With the Kardashians craze…
“I don’t think any of us knew what we were getting ourselves into in the beginning. I was nine, I have a daughter now who’s turning eight, so it’s crazy to see her and how young she is. And this is when you start creating your first memories. It’s almost like I just don’t know anything else. I never got a taste of normalcy as an adult. Growing up in it almost was a benefit to me because I don’t have anything to compare it to, really.”
Kendall Jenner, on sister Kylie’s maturing in the public eye…
“We learned how we wanted to take control of our private lives as much as we could,” Kendall tells me. But “I’ve seen so much beautiful growth in her, and she’s really come into herself in such an awesome way…. She had kids really young, so she had to grow up quick, but it feels like the most adult I’ve ever seen her, and I feel like she’s just really in her grown-up bag.”
On the infamous shout-out from partner Timothée Chalamet at the Critic’s Choice Awards…
“Is it fun to be shouted out onstage?” I ask. It’s the only time in our interview that Kylie gets flustered, but in the most charming way possible—she gets legitimately heart-fluttery, shy about how to truly answer. She wasn’t expecting any direct questions about the relationship. But hadn’t he gone in front of the goddamn Critics Choice Awards and told her he loved her? Hadn’t she posted his Golden Globe statuette in a carousel of after-party pics to Instagram, and as such, to the whole world? It was a far cry from the years of tabloids reporting every sighting of them together and tracking the couple’s efforts to maintain a level of absolute secrecy.
“Is it fun?”
“Of course,” she says, blushing.
On trademarking her name, and unwavering confidence in the launch of Lip Kits by Kylie…
Kylie tried to trademark her first name in 2014—alas, the previous most famous Kylie, Kylie Minogue, blocked the effort. Undeterred, she started getting some funds together. “It was probably, like, half the money I had in my bank account. I just went for it,” she says, recalling the $250,000. “My mom was like, ‘You are going to be left with lots of lip kits in your garage if this doesn’t work out.’ And it wasn’t even a thought that it wasn’t going to work out.”
Adjusting to the demands of being an entrepreneur…
“It wasn’t very exciting for me for the first year because I was so stressed out that everyone would harass me on Twitter at the time because they couldn’t get a lip kit. I couldn’t handle it because I really wanted to just make everyone happy.”
[Photo Credit: Mert Alas for Vanity Fair Magazine]
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