Kylie Jenner is well on her way to becoming America’s youngest ‘self-made’ billionaire. But not everyone agrees with her new title.
The 20-year-old reality TV star featured on the cover of Forbes magazine earlier this week, listed as the 27th-richest self-made woman in America.
Through her time on reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians, social media endorsements and of course her lucrative beauty empire Kylie Cosmetics, Kylie has already racked up a net worth of $900 million.
And although Kylie has undoubtedly worked hard to build her fortune in less than three years, not everyone was convinced that the beauty mogul was ‘self-made’ – including the Dictionary.
Online, the general consensus was that Kylie shouldn’t be included on Forbes’ self-made list as she was born into wealth and fame by being born into one of the most famous families in the world – and Dictionary.com agreed, posting the definition of the word on Twitter.
“Self-made means having succeeded in life unaided,” they wrote.
Self-made means having succeeded in life unaided.
Used in a sentence: Forbes says that Kylie Jenner is a self-made woman. https://t.co/sr8Ncd7s5A https://t.co/ehEL7Cf6KV
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) July 11, 2018
Top Comments
She's self made in the same way Trump is. As in, not at all.
That’s exactly what I was going to comment!
Having done some reading on him, Fred Trump (Don's dad) wasn't even self made either. His mother Elizabeth started the family company and Fred go in on it.