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Fallen Angel

Plumping Profits?: The Kylie Jenner Lip Kit Scandal

Fallen Angel

Audacy Studios | Campside Media

Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Documentary, Arts

4.5976 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

When Kylie Jenner launches her lip kits of matching lipsticks and lip liners, it appears the youngest Kardashian-Jenner is suddenly at the helm of a sky-rocketing makeup company — one that catches the interest of Forbes magazine. But what's really happening behind the scenes? Listen to never-before-heard recordings of Kris and Kylie from the journalist who found herself at the center of a scandal. Listen to Infamous: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/infamous/id1652941051?i=1000619393215 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Remember when Kylie Jenner was declared the youngest self-made billionaire and everyone got up in arms about it?

0:06.4

Well, I do. Because I wrote that story. I spent hours talking to Kylie and Chris Jenner.

0:13.3

And on the podcast infamous, I'll be playing tape recordings of them. No one has ever heard.

0:18.8

Because it turns out they may or may not have lied to me.

0:26.4

So we're back at Chris Jenner's house in Hidden Hills.

0:30.0

I'm hovering by a big darkwood dining table, waiting to be told where to go.

0:36.1

I'm here to sit in on a meeting with Chris, Kylie, and a couple of people who work on Kylie Cosmetics.

0:41.4

Thank the most important thing was talking about pop-up.

0:44.0

Yeah.

0:45.2

Kylie acts as something of a creative director, accepting or dismissing suggestions from everyone else.

0:51.6

Sometimes Kylie completely smacks down her mom's ideas,

0:55.6

and the ubiquitous dismissive childway that will sound familiar to any parent.

1:06.4

She's most concerned with aesthetics.

1:09.2

And like everyone in California, myself included, she talks in terms of five.

1:15.5

It's by the way, it's only a whole group of five.

1:17.6

Just some elements seen in my other five.

1:19.6

Any of the other five, if I need those five,

1:22.5

it's another reason.

1:23.6

But it becomes clear to me during this meeting that even though it's cold, Kylie Cosmetics,

1:29.2

it's her mother, Chris, who's really stirring the ship.

1:33.0

I mean, how we thought about minutes for customer.

1:36.7

What if you did that in neon?

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