“Stop making everything into a plotline.” “Stop following me,” she seems to say, and not just to her mother. “You’re way too fucking needy, Mom.” This, on the one hand, reads like a teen-ager’s expected plea for some space, but it is also, perhaps, a reaction to the life Kendall has lived since she was a child. “This is my time to get away from home,” she explained over dinner at Hôtel Costes, crunching down on a bread crust. In a much later episode, from 2015, Kendall, now already a top model walking the shows in Paris, told Kris that she didn’t want her to come to fashion week. On an early “K.U.W.T.K.” episode, while her older sister Khloé (with Kylie as her “assistant”) loudly explained the mechanics of pads and tampons, Kendall responded by squirming silently, her little face quizzically scrunched up-a tween whose constant exposure on television had not eased her palpable reluctance to be watched. Despite her involvement in the fashion world, she is the self-professed “tomboy” of the family and has often reacted with discomfiture to her sisters’ performance of flamboyant femininity. Kendall, by contrast, has had a more low-key presence and conventional narrative arc, focussed on her continuing rise as a model. Explosive of curves and pillowy of lips, she has been precociously dating the rapper Tyga, whose son’s mother, Blac Chyna, in a Greek-tragedy-in-the-San Fernando Valley twist, recently gave birth to a daughter with Kylie’s own half-brother, Rob Kardashian. Kylie’s entrée into young womanhood has entailed high-stakes conflict and conjecture, taken on with the voluptuous élan of a social-media Vargas girl. (On a rerun of an early episode that I caught recently on a plane, the B-plot centered on the youngest sisters accidentally staining Kris’s expensive rug with pasta sauce and attempting to scrub it-in the style of the high jinks on “I Love Lucy”-with an unwieldy rented steam cleaner.) In recent years, however, the ever-more-robust personal brands of the two sisters have diverged, as if providing two models for how celebrity might be endured. They spent the brief pre-sexualized haven of their early teen years supplying lighthearted, slapsticky shenanigans meant to contrast with their older siblings’ more consistently dramatic story lines. Kendall and Kylie started out on “K.U.W.T.K.,” at ages eleven and ten, respectively. This, paradoxically, has made her more interesting to watch. Kendall might have had her first high-profile public relations-crisis last week-a Pepsi ad she appeared in drew immediate derision from critics for its inept co-option of protest culture, and was pulled less than twenty-four hours after its release-but the Kardashian-Jenner family’s second-youngest member has, until recently, maintained a curious remove from the earthy theatrics of her kin. Kardashian Kremlinologists will not be surprised that it is Kylie, rather than her older sister Kendall, whose inner sanctum we will soon be allowed to glimpse. With hardworking professionalism, a canniness that has often tipped into a kind of genius, remarkable psychological resilience, and a willingness to share almost any facet of their lives, the Kardashian-Jenners have become the First Family of American reality TV, and emblems of the present-day Zeitgeist. Simpson confidant Robert Kardashian her children with Kardashian, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob her now-ex-spouse, the Olympian and motivational speaker Caitlyn Jenner (who, before her recent transition, went by Bruce) and their two daughters, Kendall and Kylie. This whole universe of products orbits around the original show, which, since 2007, has documented the lives of the Kardashian-Jenners: the so-called “momager” Kris Jenner, who was married to the late lawyer and O. “Kylie” is the latest in a long line of “K.U.W.T.K.” offshoots, which has included smartphone apps and games, clothing brands, perfumes, Instagram sponsorships, paid night-club appearances, and even novels. ![]() “The 19-year-old mogul will be opening up the doors of her exclusive domain and giving fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse into her extraordinary life,” E! online reported. A spinoff of the reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” the eight-episode series will focus on the youngest sibling in the Kardashian-Jenner family, the makeup entrepreneur Kylie Jenner. Earlier this week, E! News announced that a new limited series, “Life of Kylie,” would début this summer on the E! network.
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