On the May 13 episode of Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast on Netflix, Kylie Jenner opened up about how the paparazzi hurled abuse at her long before she was a face in the beauty industry and revealed the one insult she still cannot shake.
Talking about the ugly side of growing up with cameras in her face, Jenner admitted why it was “hard” for her to leave the house when she is in Los Angeles. She revealed that it was more about privacy, telling Shane the way photographers treated her as a kid was “diabolical,” recalling a memory that stopped the room.
Kylie Jenner recalls paparazzi’s harsh treatment towards her
Discussing her experience with the paparazzi in Jake Shane’s Therapuss podcast on Netflix, Kylie Jenner said, “I would be coming out of a thing, and they’d be like, ‘You f***ng s**t,’ when I was 16,” leaving the host in disbelief. She told him, “I’m not lying,” adding how they blocked her car and mocked her as she hid her face from them.
This scene, as she described, would terrify any adult, let alone a teenager alone in a car. The paparazzi tried to force a reaction from her — anything that would make a more scandalous shot and lead to a bigger payday.
Jenner faced all of this without a security guard. “I didn’t have security until after I had my daughter,” because she wanted to be “normal” and “be with my friends.” She added, “I wanted to be on my own in the world.” Shane asked if she was completely alone during those incidents, to which she said, “Yes,” and confessed, “It was scary at times.”
That vulnerability shaped the beauty mogul, ultimately becoming the person who commands front rows at fashion week and runs a cosmetics empire. The memory of the paparazzi screaming obscenities at a child does not just disappear when one establishes oneself in the industry, and Kylie Jenner’s confession is thus a look at what the spotlight actually costs.
