Kylie Jenner doesn’t want you to talk about her hair, her boobs or even her famous lips.
For the second year in a row, Kylie and her sister have been named two of the most influential teenagers in the world. And it’s a responsibility Jenner says she takes seriously.
“I know how influential I am over my fans and followers,” the 18-year old tells Time Magazine, the publication that awarded her this honor.
“I feel like everything I do, my hair color, my makeup, I always start these huge trends, and I don’t even realize what I’m capable of.”
That may sound cocky, but take the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge, for instance.
Jenner often shared pictures of her plump lips, but she never stuck her mouth in a shot glass in order to achieve this look, as followers started to do in dangerous fashion.
That wasn’t even my influence, because I didn’t ever pick up a shot glass; that was a trend before my name was attached to it,” she says.
“Then people just started calling it the Kylie Jenner lip thing. I went on social media and said I was not down for this, I don’t approve of this. So weird.
“But I started taking a different approach a couple of months ago.”
It’s true: the reality star has started an anti-bullying campaign, #IAmMoreThan.
“I thought of the idea because, almost my whole life, since I was 9, since I’ve been in the spotlight, that comes with so much bullying and attacking
“Everything I do, there’s a huge light on it. I’m okay with that because it is what it is, it comes with the lifestyle. [But] it has still affected me a lot.”
There are times Kylie says she’d love to lead a more normal life.
But she also wants to leave behind a legacy.
“That I’ve helped people and that it wasn’t just about me. That I was an inspiration for young girls.
“And it wasn’t just getting your lips done and having good hair, but being a good person and inspiring other people to not bully other people and do good things and be nice to everybody.”
Jenner concludes that she’s just trying “to find” herself, same as all her young fans.
And she hopes she can play a positive role in wherever their destination leads them.
“I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that’s what I’ve always done. And they know that.
“I’ve been experimenting with my hair, with my lip colors. I have green hair one week, blue hair the other. I’m Gothic another week. I’m always experimenting and trying to figure out who I am and exactly what I want to be.
“I feel like it inspires them to be exactly who they want to be.”
