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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.”
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“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.”
Source: https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/kylie-jenner-cant-get-rich-off-fake-beauty-then-claim-regrets/
