Kylie Jenner attends the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Middle on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photographs for The Recording Academy)
Kylie Jenner could typically come throughout as one of many least offensive of the “Karjenner” sisters — definitely compared to Kim Kardashian, together with her intercourse tape, repeated allegations of blackface and cultural appropriation, flamboyant marriage to Kanye West and COVID-19 birthday extravagance.
It additionally doesn’t appear as if Kylie Jenner has made almost as many unusual, tone-deaf selections as her supermodel sister Kendall Jenner, most notorious for her notorious Pepsi advert.
Nonetheless, Kylie Jenner, 23, has been concerned in her share of controversies, together with this previous weekend when the self-proclaimed “billionaire” cosmetics mogul requested her 222 million Instagram followers to donate to a GoFundMe effort to assist cowl the price of her make-up artist’s medical payments.
The mega-wealthy Kylie Jenner, who reportedly earns round $1.2 million per Instagram publish, donated $5,000 herself in the direction of the $60,000 or extra that Samuel Rauda wants for surgical procedure following a automotive accident final week, Web page Six and different retailers reported.
In an Instagram story, linking to the GoFundMe marketing campaign, Jenner wrote: “Could God watch over you and defend you @makeupbysamuel. Everybody take a second to say a prayer for Sam who obtained into an accident this previous weekend. And swipe as much as go to his households (sic) go fund me.”
However Jenner’s request to her followers blew up the web over the weekend, with followers and critics alike expressing disbelief and outrage with the hashtag “#tonedeaf,” the Day by day Beast and CNN reported. Followers and critics identified the Kylie Jenner is so wealthy she might simply cowl her pal’s medical payments herself.
“@KylieJenner! Why don’t you ‘go fund’ your pals monetary wants relatively than asking your followers to do it. You recognize, your followers which are anxiously ready for his or her $1,400 test to drop to allow them to purchase meals and pay payments,” one individual wrote, the Day by day Beast reported. One other wrote, “Kylie jenner purchased her toddler a $15,000 purse however is asking her followers for cash.”
“Kylie Jenner actually requested us for cash like we made the Forbes record,” one more tweeted, a reference to when Forbes in 2019 referred to as the then-21-year-old Kylie the “youngest self-made billionaire.”
Representatives for Jenner contacted media retailers to argue that her intentions had been misunderstood. Jenner reps informed Web page Six that she initially donated to the GoFundMe marketing campaign when its purpose was solely $10,000.
However after Jenner helped convey consideration to Rauda’s scenario, the marketing campaign elevated its unique request, first to $60,000, making Jenner’s $5,000 donation appear small by comparability. As of Monday, the GoFundMe was searching for $120,000, with $100,000 already raised, CNN reported.
However no matter Jenner’s representatives say, her ill-considered GoFundMe request is one more reminder that she’s made some poor selections earlier than, together with in a number of cases when she has been uncovered for allegedly misrepresenting herself to followers and to the media.
Again in 2015, Jenner was pressured to lastly admit that her pillowy lips weren't pure or the results of beneficiant lip liner, Cosmopolitan and Us Weekly reported. She acknowledged that she had tried “non permanent” lip fillers and revealed in a 2017 episode of “Lifetime of Kyle” that she determined to switch her look after a former boyfriend informed her, “I didn’t suppose you'll be a great kisser as a result of you could have such small lips.”
However the lip controversy impressed her to launch her personal make-up line, Kylie Cosmetics, which generated $420 million in retail gross sales in its first 18 months, Us Weekly mentioned.
Additionally in 2017, Kylie and Kendall Jenner determined it will be a good suggestion to launch a Kendall + Kylie T-shirt line that includes their faces superimposed over images of deceased rappers Tupac Shakur and Infamous B.I.G, Cosmopolitan mentioned.
Nobody appreciated the thought, particularly Biggie’s mom Voletta Wallace, who mentioned nobody from the property had been contacted. “The disrespect of those women to not even attain out to me or anybody linked to the property baffles me,” Voletta Wallace mentioned. The sisters apologized, and in 2018, a lawsuit about using the Tupac photograph was dropped.
Lastly, most of the individuals criticizing Kylie Jenner for the GoFundMe request are unsuitable about one factor — calling her “a billionaire.” As a lot as Kylie Cosmetics made her very, very wealthy, the corporate didn't make her a billionaire, as Forbes initially reported in 2019.
Forbes in 2020 recalculated Kylie Jenner’s funds and concluded that her firm’s gross sales have been “considerably smaller than individuals have been led to imagine.”
In an “Inside Kylie Jenner’s Net of Lies” report, Forbes claimed that Jenner and members of her staff had lied about her firm’s figures and solid tax returns to make her “look even richer.” Kylie disputed the 2020 report, tweeting, “I’ve by no means requested for any title or tried to lie my manner there EVER. interval.”
what am i even waking as much as. i assumed this was a good web site.. all i see are numerous inaccurate statements and unproven assumptions lol. i’ve by no means requested for any title or tried to lie my manner there EVER. interval
— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) Could 29, 2020