Kylie Jenner is opening up about the postpartum experiences she had after giving birth to her two children: daughter Stormi, 6, and son Aire, 2, whom she shares with rapper Travis Scott. Appearing as the cover story for British Vogue's September 2024 issue, the 27-year-old beauty mogul touched on everything from managing fame at a young age to her body image following the birth of her kids. "@KylieJenner is a mother, media maven and newly minted front-row heroine," British Vogue captioned an Instagram post. "Yet, despite hundreds of millions of eyes following her every move, the life, loves and longings of the woman herself have remained shrouded in mystery… until now."
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She became a mom at a young age.
Kylie talked to the magazine about becoming a mother at a young age. “I was 19 when I got pregnant, 20 when I had her," she said of her daughter. “It was wild. Looking back at it, I give myself more empathy and grace. But when I was a teenager, even my family were like: ‘You aren’t that young.'"
She believes this was because she carried herself a certain way or that she'd already been working for 10 years. "It was a huge life change.”
Kylie had prolonged postpartum depression with both kids.
Diving more into her postpartum experiences, the reality star compared the differences she faced between both children.
“Stormi’s lasted a year,” she said, adding that Aire’s also lasted around the same length of time. “I’m going to be 27, and I’m finally feeling like myself again, and I think, being pregnant, I wore sweatpants every day, I didn’t have time to figure out even some of the little things in my life, and then postpartum lasted a year. Mentally, it’s really hard. Hormonally, it’s really hard. I didn’t know how to dress."
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Figuring out her son's name added more of an emotional toll.
“It hit me differently both times," Kylie said of her postpartum experiences. "Probably with my son it was major baby blues, so I was just so emotional over things that I probably wouldn’t be that emotional about. On the phone with my mom all day hysterically crying, saying, ‘I can’t figure out his name.’ Now my advice to all my friends having children is pick the name before, because when the hormones hit you can’t make decisions. You can’t."
She added that she "felt like a failure" for not being able to figure out a name. "He deserved so much more than that. It just really triggered me.”
Kylie sees motherhood as 'everything.'
"Stormi wasn’t planned. It happened, but obviously I knew that I wanted to have her. I wanted children so bad. No matter what I’m going through or what I look like or what the internet writes about me that day, I come home and my kids just love me unconditionally," she continued. "They’re just obsessed with me and that’s taught me to walk through life a little easier. I’m like, ‘OK, well I have these little humans at home that need me and love me and think I’m the most perfect person in the world, so I don’t really need validation from outside sources.’”
She struggled with her body image.
Recalling the weight she gained with both children and how her body was scrutinized on social media, Kylie shared, "I feel like people didn’t give me, or give women in general, enough empathy. I see pictures and people are accusing me of being on drugs or something.”
She added, “I’m back at my weight I was before I had my daughter and son and people are putting side by sides of me three months postpartum. I’m like: ‘Does everyone forget that I had two children and I gained 60 pounds both pregnancies?’”
The full feature hits the stands and becomes available for digital download on August 20, 2024.
