Encore: Plumping Profits? A Kardashian Scandal | Part 1
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What makes Kylie Jenner's lip kits so popular?
Hey, everyone. Thanks for coming back to Infamous this week. It's Vanessa. So we are about to play you a replay of one of our favorite series in this long, long catalog of infamous stories. And that is about Kylie Jenner and her lip kits and the insane experience that Natalie had interviewing Kylie and Kris Jenner.
It's June 2018, and I'm pulling up to Kris Jenner's house in Hidden Hills, northwest of LA. The first thing I do is drive up to a bougainvillea line security checkpoint, where a guard makes sure my name is on the list. Then I head down a street that has lots of rolling, grassy hills on either side, the gigantic plots of land separated by miles of white railings, the kind you'd see on a ranch. And then, all of a sudden, Google Maps tells me I've reached my destination. Like all really expensive homes, you can't see anything from the street. Just lots of big trees. But there's a black SUV parked outside with two bodyguards. I must be in the right place. As I get close to the gigantic Mediterranean-style house, I think about how I'm not really the typical fancy lady you'd expect to see arriving here, carrying a Christian Dior bag and driving a G-Wagon. I'm in a tiny Prius that probably hasn't been washed in far too long. I'm 27 years old and wearing all black. My hair is in a bowl cut and I've got a nose ring.
I look like a hipster, not a billionaire. But the woman I'm here to see, she is on her way to being a billionaire. And it's not Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the family. It's also not Kim Kardashian, the biggest star of the family, the one who started their whole dynasty just with a sex tape. It's the youngest daughter of the family, Kylie Jenner.
How did Kylie Jenner become a billionaire?
Now, I'm not a Keeping Up with the Kardashians fan. I pretty much never watch the show. Don't get me wrong, I like reality TV, but I'm more of a Love Island lover. The competition, the unpredictability of new love, the batch of fresh faces every season. The Kardashians is all about family dynamics and the family brand, and I was never interested enough to follow it closely. But what I have been following for years is this family's business. Maybe closer than anybody else outside the family, besides their accountant. And actually, the world doesn't know Kylie's about to be a billionaire. Because despite driving a Prius, I'm a reporter for Forbes magazine, a magazine that covers wealthy people and business.
And soon, we'll be calling Kylie Jenner the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. in a world full of uncertainty one thing is constant the world's super rich will often grab our attention forbes has just released its annual billionaires list forbes does all sorts of journalism which they package with ads for very expensive watches but it's best known for making lots of lists of the richest people in the world the brass ring of american wealth culture
So a lot of people wonder how we compile the Forbes billionaires list. And it's a massive, massive undertaking. It takes many dozen reporters many, many hours to track down all of the world's billionaires.
Part of my job is to verify whether people really are billionaires. In other words, this hipster with a bowl cut was the gatekeeper of the list that all these rich and powerful people desperately wanted to be on.
My name is Kylie Kristen Jenner. I'm 23 years old. My favorite color is pink.
From Sony Music Entertainment and Campsite Media, this is Infamous, and I'm Natalie Robomet. I'm Vanessa Grigorianis. And this is episode one of our series, Plumping Profits.
This week, we're talking about the Kardashians. You knew at some point that this series was going to have to talk about the Kardashians, right?
And you and I have personally interviewed a bunch of them, or a lot of them. Well, I've interviewed Kim. Okay, I've interviewed Kim and Kris and Kylie. Ooh, trifecta. I know, I know. I've got to catch them all.
But today, we're actually going to be talking about Kylie. Who's like the youngest daughter in a fairy tale who sets everything on its ear. Absolutely.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What makes Kylie Jenner's lip kits so popular?
0:05–2:10
2
How did Kylie Jenner become a billionaire?
2:10–6:41
3
What challenges did Kylie face in her rise to fame?
6:41–15:41
4
How does the Kardashian family influence culture?
15:41–17:55
5
What controversies surround Kylie Cosmetics?
17:55–19:55
6
How did Kylie's childhood shape her career?
19:55–20:24
7
What role does social media play in Kylie's success?
20:24–25:12