Background and career
Kylie Kristen Jenner (born August 10, 1997) is an American media personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She starred in the E! reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians from 2007 to 2021 and the Hulu reality television series The Kardashians starting in 2022. She is the founder and owner of the cosmetics company Kylie Cosmetics. She is currently the fifth-most-followed person on Instagram.
In 2012 at age 14, Jenner and her sister Kendall collaborated with the clothing brand PacSun to create a clothing line called Kendall & Kylie. In 2015, Jenner launched her own cosmetics line called Kylie Lip Kits, which was renamed Kylie Cosmetics the following year.
Jenner has been an influential figure in pop culture since the mid-2010s. In 2014 and 2015, Time magazine listed the Jenner sisters on their list of the most influential teenagers in the world, citing their considerable influence among youth on social media. In 2017, Jenner was placed on the Forbes Celebrity 100 list, making her the youngest person to be featured on the list. Jenner also starred in her own spin-off series, Life of Kylie, which premiered in 2017. That year, she was selected for the Forbes 30 under 30 list in the Retail & Ecommerce category. In 2022, she was selected for the Forbes 30 under 30 Hall of Fame.
In 2019, Forbes estimated Jenner's net worth at $1 billion and called her the world's youngest self-made billionaire at age 21. Forbes later retracted the statement, stating that Jenner "likely forged" tax returns to create an image that she was a billionaire.
Kylie Kristen Jenner was born on August 10, 1997, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, the youngest daughter of former Olympic decathlete champion Caitlyn Jenner and television personality and businesswoman Kris Jenner (née Houghton). Jenner has an older sister, Kendall, and eight older half-siblings. From Caitlyn's side of the family, she has three older half-brothers―Burt, Brandon, and Brody Jenner―and one older half-sister Cassandra Marino. From Kris' side of the family, Jenner has three older half-sisters―Kourtney, Kim, Khloé―and one older half-brother Rob Kardashian. Her parents divorced in 2015, prior to Caitlyn's gender transition.
How Kylie Jenner makes money
In 2019, Forbes estimated Jenner's net worth at $1 billion and called her the world's youngest self-made billionaire at age 21. In June 2017, Jenner was placed at number 59 on the Forbes Celebrity 100, which calculates the 100 highest-paid celebrities of the previous 12 months, after earning approximately $41,000,000, making her the youngest person on the list at 19 years old. The next month, Jenner sold a 51 percent stake in Kylie Cosmetics to Coty, which owns other beauty brands including Covergirl, OPI, Rimmel, GHD and Clairol for $600 million.
