14 DAY TRIAL // A little over a year ago, rumors started making the rounds that Kylie Jenner, the youngest girl on the E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, had started messing with her face, getting fillers in the lips and maybe even Botox and plastic surgery. Kylie was 16 at the time.
In August this year, Kylie turns 18. She’s been denying the filler rumor since the day it started, but she’s decided it’s time she came clean: yes, she had her lips done. But she never lied to her fans, she insists.
Kylie saves the big reveal for the cameras
The 17-year-old star has had plenty of opportunities to discuss her decision to get fillers at her age, but not only did she refuse to take it up, she actually voiced anger and frustration at being suspected of getting work done, particularly since she was so young.
All these months, she either claimed she’d “grown up” and thus her lips had suddenly tripled in size, or she insisted her fuller pout was the result of cleverly applied makeup, with focus on overlining the mouth.
As you can see in the 2 videos available below, she wanted to save her big reveal for her own show, because that’s just what the Kardashians do.
In teasers for the newest episode, we see big half-sister Khloe first admitting to Kylie’s injections, admonishing her for lying about them. Kylie is not concerned, saying she has no plans either to deny or confirm the rumors.
We, however, know that she would deny them later.
In the second video, it’s Kylie who admits to getting fillers in the lips, saying she’d always been insecure about this part of her body, so she wanted to see what it was like to finally get them fixed. Kylie has naturally thin lips.
She also tries to explain her decision to not discuss this with the media by saying she didn’t feel “ready” for the admission yet. “But I didn’t lie!” she insists. But she did.
How young is too young?
The Kardashians aren’t shy about plastic surgery and / or less invasive methods of banishing all imperfections and wrinkles, and improving that which they were born with.
However, even for them and even for showbiz, getting clown lips with fillers at 16-17 years old seems a bit extreme - and totally inappropriate, voices online are saying.
It makes sense, if you think about it: Kylie grew up surrounded by older girls, all of whom are said to have tweaked until they were happy with themselves or, in Kim and Kris Jenner’s case, they ended up with what is known as a “cat face.”
She had no one else to look up to and definitely no one to advise her against it. Kylie insists that the fillers are “temporary,” but even so, isn’t she too young to be messing with her face? She’s not even done growing up yet, or wasn’t at the time she got the first round of fillers.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
