{"id":829163,"date":"2026-08-28T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829163\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:22:08","slug":"is-kylie-jenner-a-self-made-billionaire-she-gives-reasons-defending-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/829163\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Kylie Jenner a Self-Made\u00a0Billionaire? She Gives Reasons Defending Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/kylie_jenner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kylie Jenner<\/a> is keeping her title of &#8220;Youngest Self-Made Billionaire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seven years after Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1020790\/kylie-jenner-is-the-youngest-self-made-billionaire-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">sparked controversy<\/a> for dubbing her as such due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1094433\/kylie-jenner-sells-600-million-majority-stake-in-beauty-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">success of Kylie Cosmetic<\/a>s, the <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/kardashians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kardashians<\/a> star argued why she feels she deserves the recognition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of the money I&#8217;ve ever made is inherited, so it&#8217;s technically true,&#8221; Kylie contended in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whowhatwear.com\/fashion\/cover-features\/kylie-jenner-interview-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Who What Wear interview<\/a> published Aug. 27, &#8220;but people just feel like the privilege I&#8217;ve had was a major\u00a0stepping stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a defense the 29-year-old has put up before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s really no other word to use other than self-made because that is the truth,&#8221; Kylie told Interview Germany in 2019. &#8220;That is the category that I fall under.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the makeup mogul noted that she &#8220;did not get money from&#8221; her parents <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/kris_jenner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kris Jenner<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/caitlyn_jenner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Caitlyn Jenner<\/a> &#8220;past the age of 15,&#8221; two years before launching her beauty label.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a special case because before I started Kylie Cosmetics, I had a huge platform and lots of fans,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I used 100 percent of my own money to start the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylie Jenner is keeping her title of &#8220;Youngest Self-Made Billionaire.&#8221; Seven years after Forbes sparked controversy for dubbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-829163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}