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Celeb News: Kylie Jenner for Complex Magazine
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Kylie Jenner for Complex Magazine
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“When I was younger, I used to think about my sister’s name, Kim,” Jenner says. “Growing up with her, I always knew her name, but now everybody else knows it, too. That’s so crazy! It feels different when you say it now: Kim Kardashian.” She emphasizes each syllable of her sister’s name to convey just how inconceivable her fame is. “Now, I feel like that when I say my name. Kylie Jenner. ****! Everyone knows my name too.”
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Jenner is aware that fame has afforded her opportunities that most teenagers can only dream of. “It’s definitely easier for me than for most people,” she says. “There are so many doors that I’ve walked through.”
But she also struggles with the trade-offs. Jenner says she has been cyber-bullied since she was in her early teens and criticized for her body. Her romantic relationships are fodder for tabloids. “I don’t hate my life,” she says. “I’m happy. But everything that comes with it—the paparazzi and not being able to do normal things? I’ve been famous for what feels like my whole life. I just want to know what it feels like not to be.”
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Jenner is quick to note that “fame isn’t bad,” but growing up in the spotlight is challenging. “It’s probably the hardest thing,” she says. “You don’t know who you are. I didn’t know who I was a year ago, and I still don’t know exactly who I am now. You’re trying to grow up and make mistakes and everybody’s watching.”
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When Jenner was in her mid-teens, she shared parts of her life on Keek, a free online social networking service that allows users to share short videos. “My Keek days were wild,” she says. “I showed everyone my funny and crazy side.” Her clips included filming make-believe fight scenes, making silly faces and voices at the camera, and singing, karaoke-style, Kanye West’s “Blood on the Leaves” in a public bathroom. “That’s when people started making fun of me,” she says. Mean comments on Keek and online made her insecure, and more closed off. “When people bully you about what you want to do, or for being silly and funny, it makes you not want to be silly and funny anymore. I started to lose a lot of myself, pieces about myself that I liked the most.”
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In 2014, Jenner faced one of her most acute controversies when rumors began circulating that she had received lip injections. Jenner was pressed about the topic in nearly every interview. At first, she denied the rumors and insisted her lips looked plumper because of makeup. Then, in a 2015 episode of KUWTK, she finally copped to getting filler injections when she was 16.
“It has been an insecurity of mine all my life,” she says now. It all started when she was in middle school. “This guy I kissed was like, ‘Your lips are really small but you’re a really good kisser. I didn’t think you were gonna be good at kissing,’” she remembers, crossing her arms and hunching over. The conversation obviously makes her uncomfortable. “It was so rude. From then on, I just felt like I saw guys staring at my lips. I felt like no one wanted to kiss me.”
She lied about the fillers because, at the time, she thought it was the right thing to do. “I wasn’t even 17 yet,” she says. “What if I came out and said, ‘Oh, yeah, I got my lips done’? What are all those moms going to think about me? These kids, my fans, they’re going to think I’m crazy. I didn’t want to be a bad influence. I didn’t want people to think you had to get your lips done to feel good about yourself. But they thought it was crazier that I was lying about it because it was so obvious. I wish I had just been honest and upfront.”
Jenner admits that she got carried away with the injections. “When you first get them done, you’re like, ‘Oh, it could be a little bit bigger on that side.’ I’d go back and be like, ‘They went down’ and think they could be bigger. But I went too far. It was very painful.”
Jenner still gets the injections but says she doesn’t go overboard anymore, noting that she never had permanent plastic surgery. “It’s annoying to hear every day that you’re just this fake, plastic person when you’re not. Every single day there was a news story about me.”
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The social media frenzy came to a head in April 2015, when the #KylieJennerChallenge, a viral sensation that had teens placing drinking glasses over their mouths and sucking in to plump their lips like Jenner, flooded the internet. It was tough to handle. “I used to have a lot of anxiety. I never went out. If I tried to go to the movies or something, I would stop breathing in the middle and just cry. I’m surprised there aren’t videos of me out there. I felt super trapped, like everybody was watching me. I felt like everyone was hating on me.”
In the past, she has said that her biggest fear was reading awful things about herself on the internet, but she makes it clear that she has gotten over that phobia. “You can’t please everyone.” She shrugs. “I just want to live my life. I have nothing to hide anymore.”
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Growing up, she didn’t think being a businesswoman was a “respectable” title. “I never heard people say, ‘Oh, I want to be a businesswoman when I’m older.’ It was usually a nurse or this or a that.” But seeing her mom and sisters become successful entrepreneurs showed her otherwise. “My mom has been a huge influence on me; Kim has done amazing things. I look up to all of them.”
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http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/k...16-cover-story
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i dont like her but omg i love this shoot (the colors are so gorgeous)
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Wow. Prettier than all of her sisters 
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Great shoot!
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“When I was younger, I used to think about my sister’s name, Kim,” Jenner says. “Growing up with her, I always knew her name, but now everybody else knows it, too. That’s so crazy!
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And it's nice to know she's still realising things.
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photoshopped bubble butt in one pic but they left it in another 
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She looks great...I kinda feel sorry for her..she isn't a bad person and she gets lots of hate for no reason..
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I'm living for this shoot.
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Better model than her sister.
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She looks great but it's still sad to see her now but as long as she's happy
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Not a fan of her, but this shoot is fantastic. She looks incredible.
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i dont like her but omg i love this shoot (the colors are so gorgeous)
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I believe Takashi Murakami did the art - he's incredible, he also did Kanye's early album covers.
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What a gorgeous shoot, I love it
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Bop City promo kicked in 
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what. an. ICON!!!!!!
In all seriousness, this is a great shoot, I love the concept.
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OMG is her leg supposed to be this big? 
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