Is Kylie Jenner Actually Self-Made Heres Why Kim Kardashian Says The Answer Is Yes

Is Kylie Jenner Actually Self-Made Heres Why Kim Kardashian Says The Answer Is Yes Following the announcement of Kylie Jenners inclusion on Forbes 2018 list of the 60 Richest Self-Made Women, and Forbes choice to put zu sich on the magazine cover, a storm of online backlash began to brew. A fan-created funding campaign to make Jenner the youngest female billionaire emerged, people donated, and with its creation further criticism of Jenners position on the list.In a recent interview with self-made. What, because we came from a family that has had success? To me, that doesnt really make sense...I know so many people like that who havent turned out to be as successful as Kylie. If anything, Ive seen the complete opposite.As Kardashian points out, not all children of the rich and/or famous go on to create their own successful companies. We might have the opportunity, but Ive seen it go the complete opposite way. Nobody works harder than my sisters and my mom, said Kardashian.(Soure Insta gram)While, as Jenner notes in her interview with Forbes, the original investment for her cosmetics company came from the hundreds of thousands of dollars earned from her modeling gigs, she initially got her foot in the door not only because of her familys fortune, but because of their fame.Still, her decision to market her products primarily on social media after amassing millions of followers instead of relying primarily on traditional advertising was incredibly innovative and has majorly impacted the advertising industry. Brands now hire Instagram influencers to endorse their productson their platforms in addition to or in lieu of creating traditional advertisements. But it is possible to commend Jenners business savvyas Kardashian saystaking an insecurity of hers and figuring out how to make a really successful business off of itwithout applying an incorrect label.As Dictionary.com tweeted in response to Forbes proclamation, Self-made means having succeeded in life unaided. By K ardashians own admission, she and her sisters come from success which has aided them in attaining their own goals.It cheapens the phrase to devote it both to thepersonAmerica watched receive a $125,000 Mercedes-Benz as a gift (which she crashed and had replaced with a Range Rover less than a year later) and to Oprah Winfrey, the sixth wealthiest woman on the list, who was born to an unmarried teenage housemaid, raised in poverty, and paid for college entirely by academic scholarship.While I understand Kardashians inclinationto defend her sister, and while I agree that Jenner has developed an extremely impressive business, someone can acknowledge their own talent and hustle while simultaneously recognizing that they were born into a situation that increased the likelihood of their success. Writer Roxane Gay responded to a fans now deleted tweet that praised Gay for being an actual self-made success with, No Im not. I have successful parents who made sure I went to great schools and a lways provided me with a safety net so I could pursue my ambitions. Gay works hard, but she knows she has had a leg-up, and she refuses to let anyonebelieve differently.In Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Caraway reflects on advice offered to him by his father Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that youve had.The homilie that Nicks father gives him is not that his wealthy upbringing makes him an inherently bad person or unworthy (it doesnt), but being born into financial stability means a person does not have to take the same risks that a person without a giant safety net has.--Kayla Heisler is an essayist and Pushcart Prizenominatedpoet. She is a contributing writer for Color My Bubble.Her work appears inNew Yorks Best Emerging Poetsanthology.