Kylie Jenner Is NOT SELF-MADE

We’ll say it again for those in the back: KYLIE JENNER IS NOT A SELF-MADE BILLIONAIRE. Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, and Aida Rodriguez, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.

"In mid-November, Kylie Jenner marked a milestone moment with a visit to a strip mall. For the past three years, her Kylie Cosmetics had only sold its makeup online and briefly in pop up shops. But after signing an exclusive distribution deal with Ulta, the beauty retailer, Kylie Cosmetics was rolling its $29 lip kits—a matte liquid lipstick and matching lip liner—into Ulta’s 1,000-plus stores. And Jenner showed up to the Richmond Avenue Ulta in Houston to greet customers, sign autographs on lip kits and, of course, pose for selfies with her fans.

Over the next six weeks, Kylie Cosmetics sold $54.5 million worth of products in Ulta, according to estimates from Oppenheimer. 'I popped up at a few stores, I did my usual social media—I did what I usually do, and it just worked,' she says.

Fueled in part by the Ulta expansion, Kylie Cosmetics’ revenue climbed 9% last year to an estimated $360 million. With that kind of growth, and even using a conservative multiple from the booming makeup industry, Forbes estimates Jenner’s company is worth at least $900 million. She owns all of it. Add in the cash Jenner has already pulled from the profitable business, and the 21-year-old is now a billionaire, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion. She’s the youngest-ever self-made billionaire, reaching a ten-figure fortune at a younger age than even Mark Zuckerberg (who was 23 when he hit that mark)."

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Hosts: Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, Aida Rodriguez

Cast: Cenk Uygur, Brett Erlich, Aida Rodriguez

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[syner]

Ppl are not hating because she's a woman...ppl are hating because she is NOT self-made.

[DuskSentry]

She's as much 'self-made' as she is 'natural beauty'.

[stephaniel]

It's impossible to call yourself "self-made" when you're born into a family whose name alone is worth millions. Literally anyone can try to sell makeup, but without the name recognition and resources she enjoys, you have to claw your way up from the very bottom, and 99% will fail. Miss "self made" started in the top 1% and could only go up from there.

[giselleellea]

Kylie Jenner did not make herself Kylie cosmetics she hires people to do it for her, I feel bad for the workers, Kylie does not help her workers, kylie's workers for kylie cosmetics does all the work for her she ain't self made!

[saraelkassabany]

This “worship the rich” culture we have in America is disgusting.

[Crimson_Logic]

She’s not self made. She’s from a rich family and because of that, she’s already wealthy. She’s had help from her family

[moonchild-wsoi]

She said she got the money to start her company by doing modeling and THATS why she is self made.

But here's the thing, she didnt take headshots around to every photographer and agency in hopes they would call her back she already had connections to the modeling industry and never once went on go sees or had to even try to sell her look to people. Her mom helped her get modeling jobs and the fact that she has been on tv helped too. Im sure they all have an inheritance as well....she is not self made. She is mommy made.

[ianmonam]

If she had been born to a working class family she would be working at McDonald’s

[NickTheGreatAndPowerful]

If hypothetically I inherited $999, 975 and then I get $25 for asking my friend for money, that does not make me a self-made millionaire.

[scotthunter]

World is unfair. Someone becomes insta famous through their family’s fame and makes 1 Billion dollars whereas someone working to death makes 30k a year.

[rage]

SELF MADE means you came from HUMBLE origins.

[tedlemoine]

Being born into a family worth hundreds of millions offers you advantages you wouldn't have had otherwise. I'm not sure what is so hard to see about that ?

[Chewbaccafruit]

Sometimes I wish the secret to success was just having a family member get pounded on camera and then a few years later all of my dreams come true.

[GameVeteran]

It is the undisputed truth is that if it wasn’t for belonging to a rich and famous family, she would have never gotten to where she is now.

[nitrampd]

Forbes: Perpetuating the Capitalist myth that the 'American Dream' is a real thing.

[SOPARAk]

Damn that Bruce Jenner joke was savage af!! 🤣 🤣

[Code_Dee]

Lol I guess Ivanka Trump is "self-made" too

[VinayakPande]

Oh man, Aida's dig right at the end killed it!! 😂

[ynot]

I swear I don’t understand why people care about this family. I don’t get the appeal

[nfvy]

So what exactly did Kylie make? The makeup formulas? The graphic designs? The concept of liquid lipsticks? Her own lips? Any of the clothes she wears? She literally has an ENTIRE team planning out every aspect of her business for her; all she does is go “I like this, this, and this.” Thats “self-made”? That’s....entrepreneurship?