“I’ll see some comments where some people will be like, ‘This is really mean,’ and defend me… And then I’ll see other comments that are like, ‘Because she did it to herself…she has so much surgery.’”

During an emotional conversation, Kylie Jenner got brutally honest about how “nasty” online commentary has impacted her throughout her life in the spotlight.

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In January this year, some photos and videos of Kylie at Paris Fashion Week sparked discussions online about her appearance. Fans and medical experts took to social media in droves to speculate about her looks, with one TikTok video analyzing what may have “gone wrong” with her alleged injectable fillers amassing over 3.5 million views and 2,400 comments.

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For context, when Kylie’s appearance noticeably changed around 2015, she confessed to having had lip fillers to increase her self-confidence. Aside from that, the makeup mogul has denied having any other work done to her face, saying last year that it’s a “big misconception” that she’s had “lots of surgery.”

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And now, in the latest episode of The Kardashians, we got an inside look at how Kylie dealt with all the commentary about her appearance at the start of the year — with the hate seemingly taking its toll after many years.

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Chatting with her sister, Kendall Jenner, Kylie brought up the Paris photos. She revealed that the harsh commentary came after she consciously decided to wear less makeup to that runway show.

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“It’s like, a miracle that I still have confidence, and I can still look in the mirror and think that I’m pretty,” she began. “After Paris, there was this picture, which, for the first time, I was like, ‘OK, we’re not gonna wear a lot of makeup’… Then I go, and I don’t wear a lot of makeup and someone catches me in a weird light.”

A lot of the speculation about Kylie’s looks in January was sparked by the appearance of slight creases in her cheeks, which one plastic surgeon suggested on TikTok can “occur as a consequence of injections of filler.” However, while addressing the online conversations about her face, Kylie noted that she’s had “these lines” for many years.

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“You can look at pictures of me since I’m 13,” she said. “I just have these lines, but I’ve had them since I was a child.”

After spending “10+ years” reading and hearing “nasty” comments about her looks, Kylie said she feels “so numb” and questioned why anyone “thinks that it’s OK” to speak or write such rude things. In response, Kendall suggested it’s because of how their family has been “dehumanized.”

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“I think that’s a general thing with our family. We’re dehumanized, like, they don’t think that there’s any rules with us,” Kendall said. “Whereas, if you talked the same way you do about us about any other woman, people would come to their defense all day long. But, for some reason, with us, it’s like they think we don’t have any feelings.”

In a testament to how much Kylie’s looks have been scrutinized by the public, there’s been speculation for years that she may have been gradually dissolving her lip fillers. In her conversation with Kendall, the mom of two confirmed this, saying she “went on a journey [in] the last year” of dissolving “half [her] lip filler.”

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“I hate even having this conversation over and over and over again because it feels like it’s a waste of my breath because I think with me, it’s just never gonna change,” Kylie said, breaking down into tears, prompting Kendall to run over and comfort her.

“I’m just like, why do people think it’s OK to talk about me?” she continued. “I’ve never cried about this before, but I guess it does affect me.”

Talking in more detail about the comments she reads on social media, Kylie refuted the narrative that she somehow deserves to have her looks picked apart because she “did it to herself” and “fucked up her face.”

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“I’ll see some comments where some people will be like, ‘This is really mean,’ and defend me, like, ‘Why are we talking about her looks? It’s 2024,’” she said. “And then I’ll see other comments that are like, ‘Because she did it to herself, she fucked up her face, she has so much surgery.’”

“Even if I did get so much surgery and I got all these things, I still don’t think it’s OK to talk about someone’s looks,” she went on. “People have been talking about my looks since I was 12, 13 — before I even got lip filler, people talked about my looks… And it’s just so hurtful. I look old. I see it under every post.”

After Kendall reassured her sister by telling her she’s “never looked younger” and “never looked better,” Kylie talked in her confessional about the importance of rising above the hate.

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“I think that I’m really strong, and I was put in this position for a reason,” she said. “I do think of myself as a confident person. I’m so grateful, so blessed that I can wake up and look in the mirror and like what I see and think that I’m beautiful. But I’m also human, and there’s only so much someone can take.”

She added: “I always keep it pushing. I have to. Like, I cannot let the comments get me down. I have shit to do. Rise above.”