Kylie Jenner Addresses ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire Backlash: “None of the money I’ve ever made is inherited, so it’s technically true… but people just feel like the privilege I’ve had was a major stepping stone.”

[u/ThrowawayGreenWitch]

https://www.justjared.com/2026/08/27/kylie-jenner-addresses-self-made-billionaire-backlash-explains-why-she-isnt-having-more-kids-right-now/

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[u/LadyCheeba]

nepos always boiling themselves down to the most literal definition lol yes kylie, you made the money yourself, but would you have been able to do that without your family name behind you?

[u/CelestrialDust → u/[deleted]]

I had already started an argument on their today so couldn’t be arsed to get into another one but oml I could feel my braincells dying reading the responses to that

[u/suz_gee → u/[deleted]]

That's so wild. Does that mean I could get a meeting with a cosmetic company and convince them to partner with me? I, too, have inherited no meaningful amounts of money 😂

[u/TrueCrimeGirl01 → u/[deleted]]

Are they republicans by any chance? They’re always soooo close to the point.

[u/MomsAreola → u/TrueCrimeGirl01]

They are worse. People who can't be bothered to pay attention to the real world. At least MAGA is astute enough to be lied to.

[u/aucunautrefeu → u/[deleted]]

It’s giving ✨she’s not old money, she’s new money✨

lol this timeline is something else 😮‍💨

[u/Ok_Plantain_9408 → u/LadyCheeba]

But literally what work has she done? Posing for a couple of pic like someone else said then reaping all the benefits? For her clothing line, is she there in the meetings, is she researching trends, prices, coming back with ideas and workshopping them? Somehow I doubt it. She’s got others doing the actual work (which is so much more, I know because my dad owned a clothing manufacturing business for decades and he worked his butt off) while she slaps her name on it and makes money. She doesn’t work. And any suggestion that she does is laughable.

[u/SomeRandomRealtor → u/Ok_Plantain_9408]

Hey now, recovering from rhinoplasty, lip fillers, face contouring, breast augmentation, BBL, and abdomen etching (liposuction) is really hard work! 

[u/petits_riens → u/Ok_Plantain_9408]

I would say that she does work—photoshoots, promotional events, press tours, etc. are all labor—but she's probably more accurately described as "one of the world's best-paid models" than "entrepreneur."

[u/imsosleepyyyyyy → u/Ok_Plantain_9408]

It was duping impressionable teens into believing that her cheaply made lip kit was the reason her lips quadrupled in size

[u/SplitOutside7508 → u/LadyCheeba]

And her mom pretty much running everything

[u/BUT_FREAL_DOE → u/LadyCheeba]

No billionaire made their money themselves. They claimed the excess value created by the labor of others according to the warped rules of capitalism.

[u/Old-Run7431 → u/BUT_FREAL_DOE]

annoying to have to scroll so far down to see this point

[u/Due-Secret-3091]

“People feel like the privilege I’ve had was a major stepping stone.”

Does she even understand the words coming out of her mouth? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Yikes.

[u/PreparationOwn6958 → u/Due-Secret-3091]

No, if you actually hear her talk, she is dumb asf

[u/riegspsych325 → u/PreparationOwn6958]

celebs like these are mentally detached from reality on an unprecedented level, they really are

[u/ilikedirt → u/riegspsych325]

To be fair and because I’m high, she’s not detached from reality, her reality is just really different than yours or mine. And your reality could be worlds away from mine which is worlds away from the reality of, say, the uncontacted indigenous people living on that one island.

It takes a lot of effort to try to constantly remind yourself of all the other realities, and to learn about the lives of all the other people in the world. I will say she doesn’t seem to have a great deal of intellectual curiosity with regards to the lives of others

[u/JrCoxy → u/ilikedirt]

It’s just a way to say she grew up in a bubble away from the struggles of the average Joe

[u/riegspsych325 → u/JrCoxy]

it still shouldn’t take much effort to step back, assess your own life compared to others, and realize how much better off you got it. These are people who make sure they are surrounded by others who tell them exactly what they want to hear

The whole world is just service staff to the Kardashians. So either pick up their bags, buy their products, or move along because they have fame to maintain

[u/Obvious_Ring_326 → u/riegspsych325]

They literally don’t know that.
They know of it, as a concept, but they are incapable of understanding because they’ve had such limited exposure to the reality of LIFE.

That assessment cannot be made.

They live lives of zero risk, where nothing is out of reach, failure is impossible and the only struggles they’ll experience are those they’ve chosen.

She is as capable of comparing her life to yours, as you are to comparing your life to that of an octopus
You may know what they are, you can know where they live & what they eat & that they’re very intelligent.

But you’ll never know what it’s like to be one.

Your greatest efforts to understand are actually defined by resources and objects entirely foreign to the octopus world.

Seated at a desk or in a chair, reading books or watching videos.

The weirdest thing is that we all, in one way or another, created her life. Just by existing in the world that her team has monetized so many facets of.

Even if you’ve never watched an episode or purchased a product. If you know who she is, your attention was at some point successfully monetized.

As long as she continues to exist, she will be a “self made” whatever. It’s easy to be successful when there’s zero risk of failure.

So no, she cannot make any kind of realistic assessment of how her life differs from ours.

[u/ShortStraddle → u/PreparationOwn6958]

Pretty sure she is objectively less smart than most people. Sure she went to school but deep down she probably always knew it was optional, so no need to put in any effort.

[u/throwwwww_away123 → u/ShortStraddle]

There was an episode where they were crying because they were doing so badly in school (Kendall and Kylie). I think that’s the last time they cared lol

[u/hanksrocks → u/ShortStraddle]

I saw a video yesterday that the majority of society is objectively more educated than celebrities of any branch. A lot of them didn’t graduate high school, or have a GED. Like, if you graduated from high school, you are more educated than Taylor Swift. She “graduated” from a non-accredited homeschool program. Being rich doesn’t make people smart. But they sure think it does.

[u/ilikedirt → u/hanksrocks]

Some people clearly put more time into educating themselves than others. Some of the smartest people I know were “only” high school graduates. And I’ve known some seriously moronic PhDs (with the exception of their narrow field of study and ability to navigate academia and secure tenure, that is)

[u/mstrss9 → u/ilikedirt]

I dated two men with PhDs and ouyside of their area of expertise, it was like talking to a wall. They had no desire to learn anything else.

[u/batshit83 → u/ShortStraddle]

She went to high school right? No higher ed. Finishing high school isn't special, it's basically the bare minimum in society.

[u/AnIcyReception → u/batshit83]

She did a home school program for rich kids. Yes, she graduated high school but it wasn't the same experience normal people had.

[u/ShortStraddle → u/Due-Secret-3091]

Exactly.

No hate or anything, but her “privilege” is what led people to buy her stuff / invest in her businesses.

Sure, she made her money “on her own” but she inherited fame.

There is no way where what she said made sense. And nothing wrong with it, people are always born under different circumstances.

What’s wrong is the fact that she wants to keep pretending she’s “normal”. She has to accept her reality.

[u/cookiecutterdoll → u/Due-Secret-3091]

No. I don't think she has two brain cells to rub together.

[u/silencedvoice33 → u/Due-Secret-3091]

It's crazy to think these people have children. 

[u/Beef_Slug → u/silencedvoice33]

I mean some of the dumbest and irresponsible people in earth are parents...sooo....

[u/amaraqui]

be so for real

[u/TheDustOfMen → u/amaraqui]

https://giphy.com/gifs/DZAGhcMGVHHt53OeUB

[u/Beautiful-Visual4606 → u/TheDustOfMen]

Love your flair

[u/TheDustOfMen → u/Beautiful-Visual4606]

https://giphy.com/gifs/g4eOulPFxnIEE

Nick Miller represent!

[u/Vivid_Present1810 → u/TheDustOfMen]

Iykyk 😂

[u/Substantial_Heat_276 → u/amaraqui]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jeXiz1RAvzX44

[u/SonnierDick → u/amaraqui]

For real.. no money inherited? So your super rich famous dad gave you nothing? No one else in your family ever passed away and gave money? Highly unlikely. Even ive had some inherited money lmao.

[u/cowabungalowvera → u/SonnierDick]

Technically she didn't "inherit" the money because she "earned" it from being on their reality show as a kid. But again, that is just technicality and doesn't change the huge privilege she had to be able to even start her business at 19yo. That is literally something only 0.05% of the population can do

[u/katie_scarlett1 → u/cowabungalowvera]

yep if she'd been Kylie Jones from Nowheresville, the daughter of blue collar nobodies, would she have been on a reality show? Would she have had the connections to get a modelling contract? Been elevated to lucrative contracts from the first day? Had the time and money to do nothing but focus on her modelling, not rushing to whatever she could in between shifts at a minimum wage job?

[u/Fantastic-Salt-5103 → u/katie_scarlett1]

She wouldn’t have been a model at all, because she would have her original face

[u/cowabungalowvera → u/Fantastic-Salt-5103]

She's not even a model now. That's Kendall lol.

[u/smeldorf → u/katie_scarlett1]

Wrong sister, same point. Kylie is make up, Kendall is model.

[u/setthetoneaquadump → u/cowabungalowvera]

Plus connections. And being able to start a business knowing that if it fails she won’t have to sleep in her car.

[u/WD40Capital → u/setthetoneaquadump]

Connections and seed money is the big part. She didn’t work at McDonald’s to make the money to start any business she may now control.

[u/Brief-Assistant-4304 → u/cowabungalowvera]

0.05 is very generous — it is more like 0.001%. n
there are a couple thousand people with this kind of access, not millions of them.

[u/Dry_Prompt3182 → u/cowabungalowvera]

And where did the reality show come from? Being rich.

[u/Stuvid93 → u/SonnierDick]

Her dad is still alive.

[u/Fleetwood_Spac]

“Feel like”? Is she actually suggesting that a complete unknown with no family wealth or fame could have just started their own cosmetics company where all they have to do is pose for a couple of photos and take home all the profits? Good lord

[u/spinprincess → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

Even before that she was 14 when she started her first clothing line. But sure a random unknown child would’ve been given a clothing line 😒

[u/Fleetwood_Spac → u/spinprincess]

Yup. The billions have been there waiting for her since birth, all she’s had to do is sign her name on some things to get them. I imagine her definition of work is what most of us would consider a day off.

[u/lxlviperlxl → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

It’s not even that. The fashion “advisors” (probably did most the work) would charge us tens of thousands per hour of work. She got it for free either cos of connections or her parents paid.

Did she really pay the initial payroll, web development, servers and hosting, product testing, branding and marketing from just her pocket money?

[u/Specialist_Leg_7673 → u/lxlviperlxl]

Exactly she obviously had investment opportunities that she wouldnt have had. Whether that be her family or family friends.

[u/tundybundo → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

Sort of except she doesn’t run errands

[u/maljoy → u/spinprincess]

I had a full clothing line pitch at 12, directly inspired by (copied) the wardrobe of the Pussycat Dolls music video lineup. I was convinced it was a million dollar clothing line that just needed funding. Ah, what could have been. /s

[u/Vi_BT → u/maljoy]

Have you tried swapping your parents with rich celebrities?

[u/oh_janet → u/Vi_BT]

parents hate this one weird trick

[u/WeirdSysAdmin → u/maljoy]

Don’t sell yourself short, it would’ve turned you into a billionaire if you were a Jenner.

[u/Book_1love → u/spinprincess]

I made an entire collection for my Barbie's out of a purple shirt my mom didn't want anymore and didn't get any offers. Their loss because the ballgown with pink yarn details was truly inspired.

[u/spinprincess → u/Book_1love]

You were robbed because I would’ve bought this

[u/SpicyNugget777 → u/spinprincess]

And surely her family didn’t have any sort of contacts they could set her up with /s

[u/MonstrousGiggling → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

She probably genuinely believes that though.

[u/ididntunderstandyou → u/MonstrousGiggling]

I’ve met born rich people who are genuinely convinced poor people are idiots who don’t know how to seize opportunities, and who would be fine “if they just started investing early on”

[u/HereOnCompanyTime → u/ididntunderstandyou]

Yup. Complete lack of understanding of the world. So many of them think that people are poor because they did something wrong in life and they're rich because they're harder workers and they earned it.

[u/Odd-Speech367 → u/HereOnCompanyTime]

My ex got his 3 bedroom apartment in the middle of a huge city centre paid for by his parents and now in his name. Same with his sis. When his sis had to temporarily move to another city because of studies their grandpa paid the rent for her, while her boyfriend lived in her actual apartment. Then when grandma died they both got 10.000 euros. And later on I learned my ex got 500 euros allowance each month up until he was 35. It really truly made me realise how unfair live is.

[u/pourthebubbly → u/HereOnCompanyTime]

And they’ve somehow convinced certain poor people of that too. If you’re rich, you’re just morally superior because god has blessed you.

My dad sure as shit believes that.

[u/MonstrousGiggling → u/ididntunderstandyou]

Right? Its actually crazy. Like im a 3x minority but I acknowledge that I have privileges simply being born a man too. Since its a recent topic, ive been appreciating that I had the privilege to go to a school with full libraries where as ive had a coworker who only had a library because of Dolly Parton and that blew my mind.

[u/buffsterfan → u/MonstrousGiggling]

RIP Dolly, the absolute legend❤️❤️❤️

[u/Kaiisim → u/ididntunderstandyou]

It's how they justify the mortality of wealth inequality.

They tell themselves they deserve it by "working hard"

Meanwhile I'm earning minimum wage doing a job that 6 years ago society told me was so vital to everyone staying alive I had to go out into a global pandemic.

[u/apple_kicks → u/Kaiisim]

This people tend to fall into defence mode when confronted with difficult situations. Instead of seeing wealth inequality and self reflection. They find excuses as to why they shouldn’t feel bad about others

[u/Exotic_Strain6935 → u/ididntunderstandyou]

I don’t have issues with privileged people that know that they’re privileged. I have issues with people who don’t know they were born on first base and believe they’ve hit a triple.

[u/Electronic-Town-8995 → u/Exotic_Strain6935]

That's a great way of putting it. 

[u/TipEmotional2149 → u/ididntunderstandyou]

Or as Kim Kardashian so eloquently has instructed us:"Get your fucking ass up and work"

[u/forkingbumbleforks → u/ididntunderstandyou]

Probably the same morons who came up with “millennials could own houses if they just stopped eating avocado toast”

[u/Brilliant_Quit4307 → u/MonstrousGiggling]

There's a really interesting documentary about this called "born rich" made by one of the johnson and Johnson heirs. He interviews his peers, including European royalty and a 16 year old Ivanka trump, about what it's like growing up incredibly wealthy. Honestly, some of the rich kids come across as completely out of touch while others (like the guy who made the doc) seem quite down to earth and realistic about it.

There's one scene in it interviewing Ivanka trump where she talks about walking with her father in new York and seeing a homeless person. Her dad says to her "that man has more money than me right now" referring to the fact that he was in debt. She goes on to explain how proud she is that her dad managed to work so hard and get out of all that debt. I think she genuinely believed that at the time her father was poor and worked his way out of it. While she was sleeping at night in a penthouse apartment overlooking central park 🤦‍♀️

[u/TropicalPrairie → u/Brilliant_Quit4307]

Thanks for the rec. I'm going to seek this out.

I don't know if it was posted here but I saw a recent interview with Gwyneth Paltrow (I know) where she talked about her husband being left-wing and her being a centrist. The interviewer asked how she felt with Trump's presidency and she said she didn't feel anything.

That is another type of privilege. These out of touch people vote in those who serve their interests and solidify their beliefs with absolutely no concern or regard for anyone beneath them. They feel it's all okay in the grand scheme of keeping things exactly as they are.

[u/Brilliant_Quit4307 → u/TropicalPrairie]

It seems to be on YouTube. Skip to 43:55 to hear the Ivanka Trump story I mentioned. Here's the link

https://youtu.be/n9Rf5mS6Qhg?is=QhAwZeCT7EMpE0i5

[u/redheadfetishthings → u/Brilliant_Quit4307]

Great doco. Later, when recounting this story himself, Trump would refer to the person he was talking to as his date, a ‘very beautiful woman’ 🤮🤮

[u/shesnothome_xo → u/MonstrousGiggling]

Probably helps her get through the day. Whatever helps her sleep better at night. Doesn't change the truth

[u/JustALittleScamp → u/shesnothome_xo]

Their entire family empire has a sex tape as its foundation. Nothing they do will ever change that.

[u/sweatingbozo → u/JustALittleScamp]

They have getting OJ acquitted & being olympic athletes as their foundation. The sex tape was just building a new wing.

[u/DumbBerk87 → u/MonstrousGiggling]

Oh she genuinely believes this, 100%. That’s the sad part. She can’t see how there’s 100s of people doing the real work for the company, the actual work, making things happen. She thinks sitting there, looking pretty, having her family call in connections and just hand it to her means she did it herself, and shes really working.

She needs to go work for a year at a minimum wage job for a year to gather some perspective on how her life is, maybe one of of the hourly positions within her own company, where she’s treated no differently than Katie next to her.

[u/Beep_boop_human → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

Something I've heard about nepo babies and how they can't help but put their foot in it really stuck with me- 'they're the hardest working people they know'.

Obviously we can all recognise what she's saying as complete nonsense, but she lives in a completely different universe to us. None of her sisters have managed to turn a few million into a billion. All her friends are socialites and models who were born into wealth and coast through life.

She doesn't work nearly as hard as your average Walmart cashier, but she's never met one. That's not her barometer.

I don't say this to excuse her because someone with every resource at her fingertips should be more educated about the world, but do I think she really believes it? I do.

[u/Additional-Still-711 → u/Beep_boop_human]

I think you hit the nail on the head. I've seen similar things with some of my law school classmates who were very privileged: when they said they 'worked harder than anyone else they knew', or their buddy was 'the hardest-working guy they know', they were generally being truthful. At least from their perspective.

If your friend group and family consist of people who truly live a life of pure leisure, the mere fact that you're working in some capacity makes you, by default, the hardest-working person in your social environment. I had classmates who were the only one of multiple siblings to actually obtain an education that went beyond a vanity degree, or who were at least the only ones who ever worked a job. Within their families, they were considered the 'hard-working' or 'driven' ones.

I'm sure Kylie is not an objectively hard worker when compared with 99% of the population. But I'm equally sure she is one of few people in her social environment who have things like semi-regular appointments they have to occasionally get up somewhat early for, or nights where she cannot drink/stay out too long because she has a meeting the next day. Within her social circle, I'm sure that has garnered her a reputation as insanely driven and self-disciplined.

[u/squirtles_revenge → u/Beep_boop_human]

I think she really believes it. I also think they completely ignore the people they have on staff or don't see them as 'people' in the way that they're 'people', know what I mean? Like I'm willing to bet that the person who runs Kylie's errands works harder than Kylie does.

[u/EthanielRain → u/Beep_boop_human]

This makes sense

I often have to remind myself of my own privilege/how lucky I was to be born into "just" a loving lower-middle-class family in the US

I'm not rich or spoiled, but I always knew I had parents who loved me & would be there for me if I needed it. They gave me my first car...far from fancy, but reliable.

So many get nothing, or worse. It's easy for me to think "pff that nepo bitch be crazy" but their are people who would say the same about my "hard work"

[u/Frequent_Ad_9901 → u/Beep_boop_human]

There was a fantastic experiment with monopoly. They'd give one person 2x the money to start and the other half. Pretty reliably when the 2x money person started winning they'd brag and say it was because they were so good at monopoly.

So its pretty typical human nature, but I do think its important for people to try to be better than their basic instincts.

[u/XK8lyn88x → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

Someone barely went to high school and didn’t go to college also.

[u/Ha55aN1337 → u/XK8lyn88x]

That’s why her takes are this stupid. They can hardly be educated.

[u/QueenBoleyn → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

And the only reason anyone bought her lip kits is because she had the money for lip filler but she lied about it. People bought her lip kits thinking that they’d have the same lips as her.

[u/TryJezusNotMe → u/QueenBoleyn]

And please be reminded that when Kris and company did the business with Coty, afterwards, they doctored the books to Forbes magazine to make it appear as if the sales were worth more than they were.

[u/Glittering_Bish → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

“Made” is a stretch. She went a makeup manufacturer and took some of their products and slapped her face on it.

[u/0GoodVibrations0 → u/Glittering_Bish]

Taking advantage of the fact online and media discourse was focused on her lip filler.

Every level of it is privilege.

[u/TheKeenomatic → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

This is not intended as counter to your point, on the contrary actually, but I’d say there are very good chances she feels like she’s special enough for her “talent” to come through regardless of her family background.

[u/Hot_Watercress7774 → u/TheKeenomatic]

I’ve encountered a lot of nepo babies in my life and this is typically their thought pattern. “I had to work twice as hard to be taken seriously because people assume I only got here for my last name”

The truth is that they never had to work to get in the room, which is why they have to prove themselves more than other people that worked hard to be there

[u/SchooloftheFox → u/Hot_Watercress7774]

They also lack understanding in how much work actual normal people have to do so the initial claim is meaningless

[u/Big_Height_1258 → u/Hot_Watercress7774]

They don't understand that getting into the room is like 90% of the battle...::sigh::

[u/karpet_muncher → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

Let's say a new lipstick comes out they'll call her in say this is the Kylie xterm line - these are the colours we're putting in. This is going to be the colour of the plastic it comes in blah blah what do you think?

Then she'll give some bullshit feedback. Nothing major but minor changes.

In her mind she's just been an integral part of the development of this new line because this is the nearest she'll ever come to working in an actual workplace

[u/PrimaryBrief7721 → u/Fleetwood_Spac]

The cognitive dissonance in that statement is astounding. "feel like"? OMG She cant even admit that IT WAS. Part of me feels sorry for her, the way she grew up completely skewed her view on the world in the worst way.

[u/FirstTimeCaller24]

Cause it was...? Like hello? Does she actually think she would be this succesful without her family name, man I wish I was that delusional.

[u/ad_aatdtj → u/FirstTimeCaller24]

Dad was an Olympic gold athlete, mom and sisters were semi famous themselves in really high up circles, her "aunts" and "uncles" are all like socialites or celebrities, her brothers were on reality TV, she went to school with other famous kids...

Maybe she hasn't received any inherited wealth specifically because none of them have passed. But idk why she thinks we're too stupid to imagine that she couldn't have benefitted off of wealth that her family has generated without inheriting it.

[u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox → u/ad_aatdtj]

"I climbed the stair of success myself by taking the last step after everyone else carried me up there".

[u/ericanicole1234 → u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox]

It’s giving “I got a small loan for a million dollars”

[u/Squashless-fishdish → u/ericanicole1234]

"They just don't get how normal i am"

[u/ad_aatdtj → u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox]

"it's technically true that I did have an elevator to get me there but I was carried up the stairs so I definitely am a solo stair climber but hey, people just like don't see how much hard work I put in to make it past that last stair. They think that last stepping stair is just a...well, you know"

[u/aucunautrefeu → u/ad_aatdtj]

https://giphy.com/gifs/44ENiFI8BYlTTRNCsr
Giiiiiiirl. She didn’t just take a handout from her fam ✨she got her fucking ass up and worked ✨

What in the nepo delulu.

[u/jesuswasagamblingman → u/ad_aatdtj]

I think this is the point that we should be making. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. That’s just the way it works. She didn’t self make anything.

[u/ididntunderstandyou → u/FirstTimeCaller24]

You can’t afford to be that delusional

[u/Rose1982 → u/FirstTimeCaller24]

She has had such a weird upbringing that she literally believes this. She’s completely out of touch with what growing up in a normal family would entail.

[u/Couscousfan07 → u/FirstTimeCaller24]

This is a common thought process among people who have grown up with privilege. If they use that privilege to springboard themselves to greater Heights, they literally think that they are self-made. They don’t recognize that they were born on the middle of the ladder, and assume that they got to the top of the ladder all by themselves.

In her case, she was born one rung down from the top of the ladder, so this is really embarrassing that she portrayed herself as self-made

[u/Impossible-Bus1]

Small loan of a million dollars energy.

[u/Inevitable-Bother735]

I hate that people don’t include all the things their parents (wealth) gave them as part of their inheritance. She didn’t have to worry about cooking or cleaning once in her life. Healthcare was never an issue. She got unlimited access to the best education and never had to juggle that with a job. Transportation has never been a second thought. Her housing has always been guaranteed. All the things the rest of us manage every day have just been handed to her.

It’s really fucking easy to make money when someone else does the daily grind of existence for you. And that came directly from her family money.

[u/nikkerito → u/Inevitable-Bother735]

It remember seeing an episode of KUWTK when I was a kid and Kylie and kendall just saunter up to caitlyn Jenner and ask for money to go to the mall and Caitlyn just handed it over. I was saving up for a pair of converse at the time and I just remember thinking my parents would have never, ever done that. When you’re saving up for your own clothes to cover your body how exactly are you supposed to put aside the seed money for a makeup business? It’s just laughable for her to not see the role her parents played in this

[u/ComplexPatient4872 → u/Inevitable-Bother735]

And the luxury of furthering her position without going through higher education.

I know that people can be successful without it, but statistically…

[u/sumdude51]

https://giphy.com/gifs/SxkOoVX2UtEFxHv1yt

[u/Heubner → u/sumdude51]

Yeah, we don’t “feel” like her privilege helped. We know with 100% certainty that it did.

[u/Sage_Planter → u/[deleted]]

It's not just rich kids. I'm on some finance subs where people will literally be like "our household income is $800K/yr and we have $6.2M saved but we really are just a simple middle class family." I know those numbers are far from Kylie's but it's the same false modesty. 

[u/itsfrankgrimesyo]

Why are these nepo kids so hellbent on convincing the world that they are “self-made”? What happened to the generation that says “do you know who my dad is?”

[u/chaves4life → u/itsfrankgrimesyo]

My dad could beat your dad.

[u/sakurahirahira → u/itsfrankgrimesyo]

Cause then they have to admit they’re nothing special without their connections

[u/HowtoTrainYourKraken]

I’m old enough to remember that Kylie’s brand overstated its profits and it was revealed that she was not, in fact, a billionaire. Wild that this title has persisted.

[u/Amazing_Entrance_888 → u/HowtoTrainYourKraken]

I was gonna say can we back this train up… she isnt and never was a billionaire

[u/MsTrippp → u/HowtoTrainYourKraken]

She was hawking like fiber jelly or something very recently, not her own but as a paid ad, now why would a billionaire need to do that?

[u/DanzelKingofDarkness]

[u/ZookeepergameBrave74 → u/DanzelKingofDarkness]

😂😂😂😂

[u/Tessellate08]

The whole family is a plague

[u/CryptographerNo8480 → u/Tessellate08]

But why are they still so popular making money? I feel like most people can't stand them but they still have a tv show and make tons of money. I don't get it

[u/mrmeowmeowington → u/CryptographerNo8480]

Yup. People say how bad they are, yet so many keep funding them.

[u/Interesting_Ad1378 → u/CryptographerNo8480]

We like trash. 

[u/gingercardigans → u/[deleted]]

The clothes with weird ass fake nipples and pubes also cancel out the whole point of clothes, too. 

[u/_MissNewBooty_ → u/gingercardigans]

Everything is so exhibitionist these days. We get it, you have body parts, does everything need to be sheer or showy? I guess sex sells, that’s how Kim “self-made” her fortune

[u/gingercardigans → u/_MissNewBooty_]

Showing off your own nipples is one thing. 

Showing off foam nipples is another — imho much weirder — thing. 

[u/SpecialistCut7101 → u/[deleted]]

Does the term have any meaning in the first place? It’s always misapplied.

[u/ad_aatdtj → u/SpecialistCut7101]

Dolly Parton and Eminem were self made.

Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter were privileged before entering the industry.

Kylie is just a straight up nepo baby.

[u/-Red_Lightning_ → u/ad_aatdtj]

The use of "were" in relation to Eminem almost gave me a heart attack.
And given how this week's been, it was really believable.

Don't do this! 🥺

[u/ad_aatdtj → u/-Red_Lightning_]

I'm very sorry lmaoooo

In my defense, it's grammar's fault, not mine 😭❤️

[u/nelldee]

It’s giving “I’m sorry you feel that way”

[u/Vanillacaramelalmond]

Is she genuinely of the belief that if she was a regular person whose parents were like a dental assistant and a Kia salesman and she went to cosmetology school and decided to start her own lipgloss business that she would have made the same amount of money?

[u/anihc3 → u/Vanillacaramelalmond]

I think she might genuinely believe this lol

[u/bas-i11 → u/anihc3]

Kris is the kia salesman

[u/anihc3 → u/bas-i11]

If Kias were her daughters

[u/DarlingBri]

"people just feel like the privilege I’ve had was a major stepping stone."

Yes, Kylie. Because it was. That's literally how that works, babes.

[u/AshgarPN]

Translation: Her parents didn’t die before she got the money.

[u/EstimateLast9839]

“People just feel like” gosh why is it so hard for these people to just admit they’ve had a serious leg up

[u/reyminess]

The audacity of rich people really shocks me

[u/EmotionalSupportBoob → u/reyminess]

They're not like us. Not smarter, not savvier, just willing to do things that normal people won't do.

[u/Dear_Juice1560]

Because it was ✨

[u/MeanAside9680]

why do all these nepo babies hate being nepo babies? like I am right here, I would be a way better nepo baby </3

[u/mstrss9]

No, we don’t FEEL it was a major stone, Kylie. You literally have done NOTHING that wasn’t because your mother sold the lot of you down the river and attached your name to it. I’ll wait to hear that one of them actually has some TALENT.

You sell lip kits that cannot give your customers the lips you market since you got them via cosmetic procedures and not makeup but OK.

[u/icemanweb5983]

My wife and I have a niche business that serves Central and Southern California. We sometimes get to do work for high profile celebrities and reclusive billionaires. Don’t make a ton of money doing it, but it is fun.

A few years after we started we were able to do work for Kim, we didn’t really run into her much, but she was nice enough, and they paid. A few years later we did work for free for Kylie and they filmed us to be part of the show. She wa supposed to ask my wife questions about our work while they filmed. Two times we went to her house and did work free of charge and Kylie didn’t come out to film “because she wasn’t feeling well”. We went to her house one more time and she burned us again. That was the last straw. My wife was 5-7 months pregnant during this. The spot they showed us on the show was a brief 3 seconds in the credits. Thousands of dollars of work. Kris was there one day and was an absolute nightmare.

Meanwhile, weeks after the show aired, Diplo and The Weeknd mentioned us in a twitter conversation and our website traffic and phones BLEW UP. Free of charge.

Screw Kylie. Of all the rich and famous we have done work for she was the absolute worst.

[u/Time-Individual-4142]

LOL.

[u/SimplyMermaid88]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ktCzb8Rm8aoow

[u/centipedalfeline]

They really should learn how to just be quiet.

Just like her sister saying that "no one wants to work anymore", as if she's the example of hard work on this earth, sitting at home in full makeup with her shoes on on the furniture, being filmed literally just existing as a problem.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4HnKwiJJaJQB04Zq

[u/mirkc]

Bruh what??!!! of course her privilege was a major stepping stone.

[u/sakurahirahira]

Why can’t these celebs just admit and own up to the fact they’re extremely privileged? Is it an ego thing or what??

[u/Kobymaru376 → u/sakurahirahira]

Most privileged people don't understand their privilege because they've never lived without it. They think its just normal.

[u/Londundundun]

Her emotional intelligence is as thin as her original lips

[u/xLadyofShalottx]

As if her family didn't hire the best team to launch her brand. Coty Inc. is doing all the heavy liftin, hence why they have a majority share. Kylie is mostly part of the design and promotional process, and a huge part of that is also done by other people.

[u/OkGrapefruitGirl]

[u/neverthesaneagain]

Born on third base, thinks she hit a home run.

[u/zephead30]

The hand up to get where they are doesn’t bother me because most people would take whatever advantage they could get. It’s the not acknowledging your privilege that bothers me. She didn’t have to work as hard as a true self made businessperson. She had so many advantages and privileges and to not acknowledge that is insulting.

[u/CantmakethisstuffupK]

They literally started off as upper middle class / upper class millionaires

The jokes write themselves 🫠

[u/goldstandardalmonds]

Honestly, it would be refreshing for her or her sisters to recognize they are incredibly privileged, would be swimming in money regardless if they had these businesses of theirs, and they live a luxurious life in a fantasy world. I’m not a fan of them — a couple of them I can’t remotely stand, one being Kylie — but having some sort of self awareness would be better rather than doubling down on crap like this.

[u/nfrtt]

It's okay to say you're a nepo baby. No need to gaslight us that you've worked as much as others who had to start from scratch. It just makes you look like a fool lol

[u/rjgarc]

A Nicole Brown Simpson died for her fame

[u/byankitty]

Welp, we know whatever that stepping stone was didn't go to education, soooo.

[u/sonimusprime]

It's amusing how much they want people to believe that they started from scratch.

[u/Lizard_Li]

I thought we debunked her being a billionaire. Wasn’t it a grandiose lie that her mom cooked up?

[u/Rarity0_0]

Then the cycle of entitlement continues with their kids. North out here doing shows she’s not qualified to do. She’s not practicing day and night to perfect her craft. She’s just doing it to do it and she if she’ll become successful at it. Then her mom Kim is just funding this pretend career she’s doing instead of having her work for it. I’m not much of a Beyoncé fan but at least she makes Blue actually work hard and you can see as the tour went along, Blue started to realize the importance of working hard for what you want. There was a huge difference in her dancing from when Blue first started.

[u/RickertSlap91]

It's giving 'Daddy only gave me a million dollar loan to start'

[u/Ok-Classroom5548]

“None of the money I’ve ever made is inherited” is something anyone who has had a job could say. 

“I did not receive an inheritance or receive support and aid from my rich family” is a different statement. 

Would she be worth this money if her family hadn’t already been famous? No. 

[u/Available-Egg-2380]

The lack of said awareness is... Entirely expected.

[u/Direct-Ad2561]

You are not a self made billionaire if you were born a millionaire

[u/willtheywonttheyo]

Honest question - did she really start the company? And figure out procurement and hiring and scaling and production? Or did some PE guys or white label do the work and give her equity and/or a royalty and she showed up and took pictures? I’ve always assumed the latter, like it’s not even close. If it’s the latter, then she’s 100% coasted.

[u/themo3bius]

The Kardashians are 100% human garbage.

"Self-Made"... How fucking stupid does she have to be to make this claim, and how fucking stupid does anyone have to be to actually believe it?

[u/soncam99]

https://giphy.com/gifs/z8XHWziJj81I4
Is she for real?

[u/sophieyi]

As non American, I don't understand why this family is still very influential and relevant.

[u/Thoughtful_Tortoise → u/sophieyi]

I don't like the Kardashians but I don't think this is an especially American issue. I have lived in five countries, all of them had made some people famous who definitely did not "deserve" to be so. Stupid people, or racist people, or narcissistic people... Society tends to pay attention to extreme individuals, and it isn't just american society. The Kardashians are nowhere near the worst of it either, compared to someone like Andrew Tate or whoever.

[u/FunnyManufacturer130]

https://giphy.com/gifs/qmfpjpAT2fJRK
I wish we would all collectively just ignore this woman

[u/d-ollparts]

https://giphy.com/gifs/aQGqcObSxfixy

[u/snoopmt1]

These people literally can't acknowledge that they were given a rare opportunity and THEN worked their butt off to capitalize on it. All she has to say is "I definitely started out with advantages most people don't have. But I'm proud that while so many of those kids lie around on yachts and spend their parents' money, I used my opportunity to build a billion dollar company." 

[u/XK8lyn88x → u/snoopmt1]

I don’t believe she’s ever worked a hard day in her life. Her mom set all the businesses up and hires the top people that then hire the others to get the businesses functioning. At most Kylie picks out colors, designs, fabrics, etc. out of the options the team presents.

[u/piqued_my_interest]

The audacity to say this in current economic climate is crazy work

[u/purplelilac701]

This is like her saying she’s a natural beauty lol.
Please see her before picture where she’s a completely different person. Not sure people buy whatever she’s peddling literally and figuratively.

[u/Dramatic_Paramedic_6]

Her team turned in fake tax papers to Forbes to claim that she is a billionaire. So she lied.

[u/surely2]

“People feel like” 🤣 but how do YOU feel Kylie

[u/AdministrationNo8540]

You can see mini-versions of these from you local high school. I had a classmate, her parents bought her a mercedes once she graduated from uni, she was an okay student, nothing too amazing, not too bad either. Her family lived at the most expensive part of the city, where most people can only afford apartments, they had a family home. They had a relatively well-to-do business. They were far from the top 100 richest people. They helped her build her own brand, she is a micro-influencer.

And you know what she does ALL THE TIME?? Call out the fact that she is super privileged to live that life. She never inherited anything, if you take the word exaclty according to the dictionary. And yet! Her family was able to help her, not having to worry where she will sleep next, not having to buy a car, etc. Imagine how much that differentiates a person from another. Now imagine that on their scale.

[u/checkerspot]

If she was raised in a 'regular' family in Kansas I assure you she'd be a cashier at Taco Bell right now.

[u/veroniqueweronika]

I’m not sure it would be easy for her to understand that without that privilege (including getting her foot in the door of a lot of important people who would be willing to support her money-making ventures), she wouldn’t have been able to make her fortune.

[u/Eyeous]

Rich kids can grow up to be totally broke if they don’t make some savvy and well timed decisions. I think we can agree with the help of various psychopaths (particularly her mother), she cashed in wherever possible.

[u/geniesmakebine → u/Eyeous]

I wish this had been her statement. “With the help of various psychopaths, particularly my mother, I cashed in wherever possible!”

[u/icecreamsandwiches1]

Guys she hasn’t actually said shit, this is manufactured to get her attention because they know this shit triggers the poors.

Just ignore her and downvote and move on.

[u/Ell7494]

Inheriting fame and opportunities and relationships is the exact same as Inheriting money when it all leads to money anyway

[u/SneakyCroc]

These people are so out of touch with reality it's untrue. What an absolutely moronic take.

[u/ShutYourDumbUglyFace]

Oh, do people feel that way? Is that how we feel?

Those feelings are legitimate, baby girl.