Topics: Kylie Jenner, Celebrity, The Kardashians, Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Kylie Jenner has opened up about the 'diabolical' treatment she received from paparazzi when she was just a teenager.
Speaking on the latest episode of the Therapuss podcast with Jake Shane, the host asked the 28-year-old reality TV star what the 'height' of the paparazzi chaos was like for her.
"It used to be so insane. I don't even know how I'm like a normal person right now," she recalled.
When asked what actually happened, Kylie explained: "The things that they would say to me and how they would treat me as a child is diabolical, like inappropriate.
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"I would be coming out of a thing, and they'd be like, 'You f*cking sl*t'," Kylie shared, to which Jake replied in shock: "What?!"
"When I was 16," she added as Jake shrieked in disbelief: "You're lying!"
"I'm not lying," Kylie replied.
She continued: "The things that they would say to me... I would never try to give them a photo.
"So I would just jump in the car, and then there would be like six of them, and they would stand in front of my car as I was like 16, like turning my car on, whatever.
"And they would all stand out 'cause I would just be like, you know, hiding.
"And they would just mock me. They wanted to just make more money off a scandalous photo."
Kylie reiterated that throughout this ordeal, she was just an 'underage girl by herself'.
"I didn't have security. I didn't have security till after I had my daughter because I really wanted to not have security," she said.
"I wanted to be normal. I wanted to be with my friends. I wanted to be on my own in the world."
Jake then asked: "So you were just completely alone, and that must have been so scary."
"It was scary at times," Kylie admitted.
This isn't the first time Kylie has opened up about what growing up in the spotlight was really like.
A few years ago, back in 2023, Kylie spoke to actress Jennifer Lawrence for Interview Magazine’s Winter 2023 issue about the stressful run-ins she'd had with pushy paparazzi.
"But with the paparazzi, it’s been really hard. I’ve had some horror stories," she told the Hunger Games star. "Just, like, when I was 16, and these 50-year-old men were saying, ;Hi, little sl*t'."
"Trying to shoot up my skirt and jumping out of the bushes, scaring me, blocking my car," Kylie added. "It was actually worse when I was younger."
