Kylie Jenner broke down in tears on this week’s episode of The Kardashians after internet trolls said she looked ‘old’ in unfiltered pictures taken at Paris Fashion Week back in January.
Candid images of the 26-year-old went viral earlier this year and in a conversation with her sister Kendall on Wednesday’s show, Kylie complained to her sister about how people had been making fun of her face.
She said a photo had gone around of herself after she decided not to wear a lot of makeup.
Kylie said that if she wore a lot of makeup, people would she she was wearing ‘too much makeup,’ but if she went in the opposite direction, people would also criticize her on social media.
In particular, she was hurt that fans — as well as cosmetic dermatologists and professionals experienced with injecting fillers and botox — had pointed out diagonal lines running through her plump cheeks.
Some fans and professionals had speculated that she had used too much filler below her eyes and over her cheek bones, creating the prominent crease.
However, the lines can be visible on anyone, even in children, and Kylie claimed that the feature had always been prominent on her going back to when she was a child.
After she met up with her sister Kendall and attempted to prank their mother Kris Jenner on the series, they headed back to Kylie’s home for what ended up being a heart to heart.
They started out in a jubilant mood, but the conversation took a darker, more emotional turn as the cosmetics mogul made a major confession about how deeply the trolling comments about her appearance at Paris Fashion Week had hurt her, particularly because she had toned down her makeup and fillers.
Kylie, who was wearing a chic dark blue denim jacket and matching jeans, noted that it’s hard to spend time with her sisters because they’re so busy.
‘Well that was a failure,’ she said as Kendall agreed that they were the ‘worst prankers.’
‘But, I love hanging out with you!’ Kylie said.
But then she confessed that it was a ‘miracle’ that she still had any ‘confidence’ left and that she could look in a mirror and ‘think that I’m pretty.’
Kylie complained to her sister about how people had been making fun of her online after she stepped out in the City of Lights for Paris Fashion Week.
She said a photo had gone around of herself after she decided not to wear a lot of makeup.
The model said they would never get past the comments, as people would always assume they had both gotten ‘full facial reconstructions.’
‘I can’t let the comments get me down,’ Kylie said. ‘I can’t let the comments get me down. I have s*** to do. Rise above.’
Earlier, Kendall had cut out from the Balenciaga show her sister Kim Kardashian had been at in Beverly Hills to visit Kylie’s house.
The model brought along an adorably fluffy puppy, which they wanted to introduce to their mother Kris’ dog Bridgette.
Bridgette, like the puppy, appeared to be a Poodle mix, and Kylie and Kendall admitted they had always wanted to style Bridgette like a traditional Poodle with most of her hair trimmed short and accented with longer poofs.
‘Hair grows, why not at least try,’ Kendall said.
Kylie worried that their mother might be furious if she suddenly discovered her dog had gotten a drastic haircut, though Kendall thought their reality show might help them out of a jam.
‘Because the cameras are on, I don’t think she’ll get that mad,’ Kendall added.
‘I think I’m good at pranks…’ Kylie later said in a confessional, though she sounded unsure of herself and trailed off.
The two made their way over to Kris’ home and snuck in before calling out for Bridgette.
The dog cautiously turned a corner and started to walk toward them, but Kendall and Kylie were disappointed to see that she had recently had a haircut, so her hair was too short for their intended cut.
They ran into another obstacle when Kris’ boyfriend Corey Gamble appeared and looked confused about why they were in the house unannounced.
Then they met in the kitchen to fess up.
‘We came over here to… steal Bridget… and the groomer’s waiting at my house to cut her like a Poodle,’ Kylie admitted haltingly to Kris, who seemed more surprised than angry.
‘How can you not prank me? It’s so easy!’ Kris added in confessional. ‘What the f*** is wrong with you guys?’
But Kylie vowed that they would think of a more substantial prank later.
As they were leaving with the puppy, Kylie let out a high-pitched squeak that confused Kris, and she head to explain that it was a hiccup.
‘That’s your hiccup?!’ Kris responded, as she had apparently never heard the unusual mouse-like squeal, and Kendall admitted that she sounded the same when she hiccupped.
Kylie said that if she wore a lot of makeup, people would she she was wearing ‘too much makeup,’ but if she went in the opposite direction, people would also criticize her on social media.
In particular, she was hurt that fans — as well as cosmetic dermatologists and professionals experienced with injecting fillers and botox — had pointed out diagonal lines running through her plump cheeks.
Some fans and professionals had speculated that she had used too much filler below her eyes and over her cheek bones, creating the prominent crease.
However, the lines can be visible on anyone, even in children, and Kylie claimed that the feature had always been prominent on her going back to when she was a child.
‘I just hear nasty things about myself all the time,’ Kylie admitted in the confessional interview.
The billionaire reality star and cosmetics mogul wondered aloud to her sister why people didn’t more prominently defend her online.
‘I’m kind of like, so numb to people talking about my looks at this point, and I just want to know why on the internet no one says anything or thinks that it’s OK,’ she said.
Kendall said it was an issue for the whole family, and they were ‘dehumanized’ in the public eye.
‘They don’t think that there are any rules with us,’ she said, adding that people don’t think they have ‘any feelings.’
‘If you talked the same way you talk about us about any other woman, people would come to their defense all day long,’ Kendall added.
Kylie was particularly upset because she was trying to find a new, more natural looking, and she confessed to being on a ‘journey’ over the past year in which she dissolved ‘half’ of her lip filler.
‘I think with me it’s never going to change,’ Kylie said, before pausing as tears started to well up in her eyes.
As she brushed them away, Kendall took a seat next to hear and wrapped her in a hug.
‘Why do people think it’s OK to talk about me?’ Kylie asked through her tears.
She said she hadn’t cried about the mean comments before, and as the tears slowed she shared how she occasionally sees defensive comments, but others claim online that it’s fine to criticize her looks because ‘she did it to herself.’
‘”She f***ed up her face. She has so much surgery,”‘ she recalled reading.
Kylie said people had complained about her looks even before she got fillers, and she seemed distressed that people say she looks ‘old,’ though Kendall claimed she looked younger than ever.
