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The SHADY Side Of Kylie Jenner

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Ten reasons the internet has decided Kylie Jenner isn’t the sweetheart she plays on camera.

At 19, Kylie Jenner has turned a supporting role on Keeping Up with the Kardashians into a business empire and a social media following that rivals pop stars twice her age. But the same platform that made her famous has also made her a target, with critics compiling a running list of controversies — from a confessed beauty lie to a driving record littered with citations. A new TheThings Celebrity video breaks down ten separate flashpoints to ask whether Jenner is genuinely shady or just a teenager living under a magnifying glass.

• Jenner spent months denying she’d had cosmetic work before admitting on Keeping Up with the Kardashians that her fuller pout came from temporary lip fillers, not just makeup tricks — a confession that followed the viral “Kylie Jenner Challenge” that left fans with bruised, swollen lips.
• Her lip-focused brand went from Kylie Lip Kits in late 2015 to Kylie Cosmetics by February 2016, with production scaling from 15,000 units to 500,000 units in a matter of months.
• Backlash over Instagram posts showing her in dreadlocks fueled accusations of cultural appropriation, adding to existing friction with other celebrities and scrutiny over her relationship with rapper Tyga.

The Lip Confession That Changed Everything

For the better part of a year, Jenner insisted her transformed pout was the product of clever lip liner and overlining, not surgery. That story fell apart when the “Kylie Jenner Challenge” swept social media, with teenagers using shot glasses and suction devices to mimic her look and ending up with visibly damaged lips. Not long after, Jenner told cameras on Keeping Up with the Kardashians that she’d actually had temporary lip fillers all along — a reveal that instantly reframed months of denials as a calculated lie.

Kylie Jenner admitted she’d used temporary lip fillers — after months of insisting it was all lip liner.

Turning Controversy Into a Cosmetics Empire

Whatever the fallout, the lips became the foundation of a real business. Kylie Lip Kits launched in late 2015 and sold out almost instantly, and by February 2016 the line had rebranded into the full Kylie Cosmetics catalog. Production jumped from an initial 15,000 units to 500,000 units to keep pace with demand — numbers that turned online notoriety into genuine commercial leverage, even as critics kept picking apart her heavily Photoshopped promotional images.

Cultural Appropriation and the Dreadlocks Backlash

Jenner’s aesthetic choices have repeatedly drawn fire beyond her lips. Posting Instagram photos of herself wearing dreadlocks set off accusations that she was borrowing from black culture without any acknowledgment of its roots, a criticism that echoed complaints already circulating about her styling and promotional choices. It’s the kind of feud-adjacent controversy that tends to follow reality stars long after the cameras stop rolling, the same pattern explored in Reality Stars Who Treat Their Co-Stars Like Trash.

Traffic Citations, Tyga, and the Feud Factor

Jenner’s driving record became its own recurring headline almost as soon as she got her license, with multiple accidents and citations feeding the narrative that she was a teenager operating without consequences. Her relationship with rapper Tyga, meanwhile, drew constant tabloid attention and added another layer to the running tally of controversies, alongside broader friction with fellow celebrities — the kind of fallout chronicled in Celebs Who Started Out Friends And Ended Up Enemies.

Ten flashpoints, one nineteen-year-old, and a business that had already scaled to 500,000 units by early 2016 — that’s the tension the video sits inside. Whether Jenner keeps outrunning the criticism or the next controversy finally sticks is the question Kylie Cosmetics’ continued growth will answer soon enough.