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Kylie Jenner Biography: Reality TV Star Turned Beauty Mogul

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Kylie Jenner Biography: Reality TV Star Turned Beauty Mogul

Kylie Jenner (born August 10, 1997, in Los Angeles, California) is an American media personality and businesswoman best known for founding the cosmetics empire Kylie Cosmetics. She rose to fame as a child on E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians, parlayed reality-TV fame into one of the most successful celebrity beauty brands ever — selling a 51% stake to Coty for $600 million in 2020 — and made her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway debut on October 18, 2026, wearing the $50 million Fantasy Bra.

Kylie Jenner biography: quick facts

Full name Kylie Kristen Jenner
Born August 10, 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality American
Occupation Media personality, businesswoman, model
Known for Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kylie Cosmetics, Kylie Skin, Khy
Parents Caitlyn Jenner and Kris Jenner
Siblings Full sister Kendall Jenner; eight older half-siblings, including Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian
Partner Timothée Chalamet (dating since 2023)
Children Stormi Webster (born 2018), Aire Webster (born 2022)
Milestones Forbes’ youngest “self-made billionaire” in 2019 (title retracted 2020); Forbes Celebrity 100 #1 in 2020

Early life and background

Kylie Kristen Jenner was born on August 10, 1997, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the youngest daughter of Kris Jenner (née Houghton) and Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner, then known as Bruce Jenner (Wikipedia). She grew up in Calabasas, California, alongside her older full sister Kendall Jenner and a large blended family that includes maternal half-siblings Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob Kardashian and paternal half-siblings Brandon, Brody, Burt Jenner and Cassandra Marino.

She attended Sierra Canyon School, where she cheered, before being homeschooled from 2012 and earning her high-school diploma from Laurel Springs School in July 2015 (Wikipedia). Her parents’ divorce was finalized in 2015.

Reality TV: growing up on camera

Jenner was 10 years old when Keeping Up with the Kardashians premiered on E! in 2007. The show ran for 20 seasons through 2021, documenting her teenage years, her experiments with makeup and fashion, and her emergence as a public figure in her own right (Wikipedia; EuropeSays).

When the family left E!, they signed a nine-figure, family-wide deal with Hulu — reported by Variety as worth about $100 million — and the family returned to screens in April 2022 with The Kardashians, with Kylie as a regular cast member (Market Realist via Variety; EuropeSays).

Building Kylie Cosmetics

Jenner’s business breakthrough came in November 2015, when she used $250,000 of her own modeling earnings to launch Kylie Lip Kits — a liquid-lipstick-and-liner set that sold out in under a minute. The line grew into Kylie Cosmetics, one of the defining direct-to-consumer beauty brands of the 2010s (Forbes; Coty).

In November 2019 she agreed to sell a 51% stake in Kylie Cosmetics to beauty giant Coty Inc. for $600 million — valuing the brand at roughly $1.2 billion. The deal closed in January 2020, and Forbes reported she pocketed about $540 million pretax from the sale (BeautyMatter; Forbes).

The empire kept expanding: she launched the vegan skincare line Kylie Skin in May 2019 (Coty investor release), debuted the fashion label Khy in late 2023 with Jens and Emma Grede (Please Don’t Make Me Focus), and entered the drinks market with Sprinter canned vodka soda in March 2024 (The Zoe Report). Along the way she also headlined Puma’s Fierce campaign in April 2016 (Puma press release).

The billionaire controversy

In March 2019, Forbes named Jenner the world’s youngest “self-made billionaire,” valuing her at $1 billion at age 21 (AP via MyRepublica). The label was controversial from the start — she told The New York Times in 2019, “I can’t say I’ve done it by myself” (EuropeSays).

In May 2020, Forbes reversed itself, reporting the business was “smaller and less profitable” than the family had presented and revising her net worth to just under $900 million; it cited Coty filings showing lower revenue than claimed. Jenner publicly disputed the report (InvestorMint; The Street Journal).

Personal life

Jenner has two children with her former partner, rapper Travis Scott: daughter Stormi Webster (born February 1, 2018) and son Aire Webster (born February 2, 2022) (Wikipedia; GMA News). Since 2023 she has been in a relationship with actor Timothée Chalamet; he was in the front row, cheering her on, at her Victoria’s Secret debut in October 2026 (People).

She bought a 15,000-square-foot Holmby Hills estate for $36.5 million in April 2020 as her primary residence and has a Hidden Hills land parcel under development (Matter Digest; CEO Today). Her official site, thekyliejenner.com, hosts the Kylie Cosmetics storefront, and her Instagram account @kyliejenner is among the most-followed on the platform.

Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show debut (October 2026)

On October 18, 2026, Jenner made a surprise runway debut at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City — the first appearance of the revived Fantasy Bra on a VS runway since Elsa Hosk in 2018. The bra, designed by Jacob Arabo of Jacob & Co., is valued at $50 million per Vogue, making it the most expensive Fantasy Bra ever: 4,410 natural diamonds around a 75.54-carat yellow center diamond, weighing nearly four pounds and requiring more than 1,000 hours of craftsmanship. She wore it with a sparkling silver miniskirt and oversized white feathered wings, with Chalamet and her mother Kris Jenner cheering from the front row (People; Page Six; JustJared).

Net worth snapshot

As of October 2026, Kylie Jenner’s net worth is estimated at roughly $670–$800 million, based on third-party estimates and the documented value of the Coty deal and her retained ~44% stake. Forbes, which once called her a billionaire and then revised her to just under $900 million in 2020, has published no newer standalone figure. The full breakdown — deal math, earnings timeline and methodology — is on the net-worth page.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Kylie Jenner?

Kylie Kristen Jenner (born August 10, 1997) is an American media personality and businesswoman, founder of Kylie Cosmetics, who rose to fame on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and became one of the youngest beauty-industry billionaires (per Forbes, 2019 — title later retracted).

How did Kylie Jenner make her money?

Primarily through Kylie Cosmetics: she launched it in 2015 with $250,000 of her own money and sold a 51% stake to Coty for $600 million in 2019–2020, pocketing roughly $540 million pretax, while retaining an estimated 44% of the brand.

Is Kylie Jenner a billionaire?

Not according to current estimates. Forbes named her a billionaire in March 2019 but retracted the title in May 2020, revising her net worth to just under $900 million. Current third-party estimates put her at roughly $670–$800 million.

Did Kylie Jenner really wear a $50 million bra?

Yes. On October 18, 2026, she made her Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway debut wearing the revived Fantasy Bra, valued at $50 million per Vogue — the most expensive Fantasy Bra ever, set with 4,410 diamonds.

Who is Kylie Jenner dating in 2026?

She has been dating actor Timothée Chalamet since 2023. He was photographed cheering from the front row at her October 2026 Victoria’s Secret debut.

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