Philantropy

Jenner set up an eBay account where she auctions old clothing to raise money for the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.[151] Jenner joined her family in a charity yard sale on November 10, 2013.[152] Proceeds from the sale were donation-matched and sent to Share Our Strength: No Kid Hungry and the Greater Los Angeles Fisher House Foundation. She joined Khloé, Kendall, Lil Twist, and The Game at PINZ bowling alley in Studio City, California for a charity bowling game on January 19, 2014. The event was held to raise money for The Robin Hood Foundation, a nonprofit for which The Game pledged to raise $1 million in donations.[153] The Jenner sisters participated in singer Chris Brown's two Kick'n It For Charity Celebrity Kickball games in Glendale, California on July 19, 2014[154] and on August 16, 2014.[155] At the first game, she competed on actor/singer Quincy Brown's team.

In December 2015, Jenner made a donation of Christmas gifts to the Los Angeles LGBT Teen Center.[156] In January 2017, Jenner donated $10,000 to her then-friend Jordyn Woods to help cover memorial costs for Woods's father after he passed away from cancer.[157] On her birthday in the same year, Jenner announced on her Instagram she donated $500,000 from sales of her Birthday Collection to Teen Cancer America, an organization to help hospital and outpatient facilities develop special units for teens with cancer.[158] Jenner is an ambassador for Smile Train, a charity that funds surgery for children with cleft lips and palates. She became one of the organization's youngest ambassadors. Jenner visited Peru with Smile Train on an episode of Life of Kylie. In 2016, Jenner launched a special-edition lip kit called "Smile," and donated $159,500 to Smile Train to fund cleft lip and palate surgeries for 638 deserving children.[159] In September 2019, during her appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jenner donated $750,000 to the founder and members of a feminist organization in Florida called Nest of Love, which is dedicated to mentoring young women, helping low-income kids in the community, and promoting female empowerment.[160]

In January 2020, Jenner gave a total of $1 million to five organisations in Australia to help tackle the bushfires.[161] In March 2020, Jenner, her mother Kris, along with beauty company Coty donated over 6,000 pounds of hand sanitizers to Southern California hospitals to help health care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Jenner also donated $1 million to buy face masks, face shields, and other protective gear for health-care professionals who work on the front lines.[162]

Filmography

Television

Music videos

Film

Awards and nominations

Notes

1. ^ Previously Bruce Jenner

References

Friendships

In 2012, Jenner and Jordyn Woods met through a mutual friend, Jaden Smith, who Kylie met in middle school and Jordyn knew since she was a child. When Smith invited the two over to hangout at his place, they immediately started hitting it off, which sparked the beginning of their friendship.[114]

In 2017, Woods appears on Jenner's reality TV show, Life of Kylie, which showed how they maintained their friendship with their personal lives.[115]

In 2018, Woods appears on Jenner's pregnancy video. In September, Kylie Cosmetics launched the Kylie x Jordyn collection which featured the best friends new eye shadow palette, highlighter palette, two lip glosses, and a lipstick.[116]

In 2019, reports came out that Woods had hooked up with Tristan Thompson, Khloe's boyfriend and father of her daughter, at a house party. The scandal put an end to Jenner and Woods friendship for good and there is no sign of communication since.[117]

Controversies

Kendall + Kylie "Rock vs. Rap" collection

On June 28, 2017, the Jenner sisters announced that they would be releasing a line of vintage T-shirts for their Kendall + Kylie line of clothing called Rock vs. Rap,[118][119] featuring the likenesses of various rock and rap artists[120] including The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, Metallica, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Ozzy Osbourne, and Led Zeppelin, with pictures of the Jenner sisters superimposed over them.[118] The announcement of this line of products was met with swift backlash from relatives and representatives of the figures depicted on the shirts themselves, including Sharon Osbourne,[121] Jim Jampol,[122] and Voletta Wallace, mother of Biggie Smalls.[123] They were also criticized on social media and were called "insensitive."[124] Wallace, The Doors' manager and the estate of Jim Morrison issued a cease-and-desist letter to the Jenner sisters, writing that they did not authorize the sisters' use of the likenesses of these musical icons.[125][126] The Jenners apologized for the shirts, and pulled them from retail.[118]

Personal life

Relationships

In August 2014, Jenner and Tyga were spotted getting close at Jenner's 17th birthday party. Days later Tyga ended his engagement with fiancé, Blac Chyna, after dating for three years and having a two-year-old son.[101][102]

In 2015, Jenner and Tyga made their relationship official after Tyga gifted her a $320,000 Ferrari for her 18th birthday.[103][104] Jenner made an appearance in two of Tyga's music videos, Stimulated and Dope'd Up, which confirmed the long rumored couple were finally open about their relationship.[105]

In April 2017, Jenner and Tyga broke up mainly because of their distinguishable age difference. Jenner states that their breakup didn't end badly nor with a big fight. Rather, it was the fact she was so young and didn't want to look back and regret how she spent her life as a young woman.[106] The same month, 108][109]

Kylie Jenner

At age 14 in 2012, she collaborated with the clothing brand PacSun, along with her sister Kendall, and created a line of clothing, "Kendall & Kylie".

In 2015, Jenner launched her own cosmetics line called Kylie Lip Kits, which was renamed to Kylie Cosmetics the following year.[4] She also released a mobile app that reached number one on the iTunes App Store.[5]

In 2014 and 2015, Time magazine listed the Jenner sisters on their list of the most influential teens in the world,

citing their considerable influence among youth on social media.[6][7]

As of November 2019, with over 150 million followers,[8] she is one of the most followed people on Instagram