Kendall Jenner received a profile in the July issue of V magazine. The shoot is absolutely terrible even though it’s not Kendall’s fault at all. I’m assuming that the poor quality of these photographs was intentional because the non-existent lighting and red-eye effect are inexcusable. I guess that the stylist and crew thought they were being avant garde by leaving everything (even Kendall’s make-up job) looking very unfinished.
Sadly, the interview isn’t much better. Kendall and the journo discuss her young age (17) and how she wanted to be a model since age 13. They also discuss how she got involved with the Marilyn Agency, which represents her “journey” thus far. Kendall expresses a desire to be taken more seriously and to move into high fashion one day. I realize that a lot of you might jump all over her for that perceived delusion, but she’s a surprisingly good model with the right styling and clothes. Since she’s a Kardashian, Anna Wintour will never, ever allow Kendall in Vogue, but I think the kid nevertheless shows some promise. Here are some unpromising interview excerpts:
On going incognito in NYC: “I’ve been trying to keep it low key when I have been here, I haven’t been recognized much. Taking a lot of taxi cabs, wearing sunglasses… but yeah, when I’m here with my family, everybody knows which hotel we’re staying at. It’s a little bit crazier. It gets claustrophobic. I like having space.”
Does she want to build modeling cred? “One hundred percent. I don’t think some people take me very seriously. When I started off, I was way more of a personality in modeling and it wasn’t like, what I wanted to be exactly. I want to be more high fashion; I want to be more editorial, but hopefully I’ll just prove myself. Chanel and Dolce & Gabbana. All those big ones are my ultimate dream.”
If her agent wanted her to quit reality tv, would she? “I’ve never gotten that question before… Um, yeah. Probably.”
She’s never taken the subway: “Is it gross and hot down there?”
Is she okay? “I’m fine.”
[From V magazine]
Okay, Kendall’s a young girl who has grown up in a very sheltered environment, and it sounds like she’d love to eventually break free of her family’s overbearing thumb, but she has no idea where to start. Give her time, and preferably, give her a journalist who knows how to ask better questions.
Here are some more flattering photos of Kendall about a week ago at the grand opening of the Sugar Factory. Well, she looks good in the last two. The one with the lollipop (which was probably Kris’ idea) is wayyy too suggestive for a 17 year old.
Photos courtesy of V magazine and WENN
She doesn’t have the right look for high fashion. She has a great model body and has a pretty face but she doesn’t have the right face for high fashion.
Yup, this isn’t the 90s anymore. You can’t look just beautiful, that will only land you commercial modelling etc. For high fashion, you need to have a strong weird angular bone structure that works somehow. She doesn’t have it. Maybe for VS and those commercial ones, she can carve out a good career.
And only when you can become an iconic supermodel, can you be taken ‘seriously’. All the other models are replaceable and forgotten by age 25 (see Dicaprio’s girls). At least she can command the big numbers already, I’m sure with her recognition her fee can’t be as low as most girls who start out.
she is like a mix of sandra bulock and khathrine mcphee
+1
THIS!
Taylor Swift is a more natural fashion model than Kendall and she has no fashion aspirations. Kendall reminds me of Jill Hennessy.
@Elle – unfortunately for her, you are right. She could do well at the step below high fashion, possibly, depending on line mood.
Strictly catalogue. Meow.
How could she be taken serious? I personally think she is only a model, because of who her famewh*ring family is…. I’m not too sure she could have done it on her own.
Meh. She is a little version of KimK but with a much better body. I like her younger sister more.
I remember someone mentioned she would be a good VS model. I could defiantly see her modeling VS PINK.
As of right now high fashion seems out of reach.
I agree with this. She is not HF and will never be, but she fits VS.
I agree too. She is astonishingly tiny without being too skinny. Perfect for VS.
Yep, she is perfect for Victoria Secret. Her body is smoking hot in a bikini. She has the long torso that all of the VS models have. I like her so much better than her four sisters. Kendal treats her Dad with respect and she seems horrified at times with her mother.
She’s a novelty act. Struggling designers might use her for the publicity boost but respected designers aren’t going to want the stench of that family on their brand. Besides, there’s nothing special about her at all.
Disagree. She actually has a lot of potential, an amazingly lithe figure and a naturally beautiful face. Waaaaaayyyy better than either poor Kylie or the awful Curious Case of Ali Lohan.
I would rather look at her face than those scowling, half starved weird bone structure empty headed twits that I currently see everywhere. Why does everyone have to look the same? Kendall is quite cute with a lovely little figure.
It’s unfortunate if she can’t get work because of her family. It’s pretty shallow to not look beyond that.
disagree – Ali Lohan has way more potential and is way more high fashion and interesting looking.
But she is NOT a Kardashian in any other sense than she has half siblings that are. She is a Jenner first and foremost. And the reason that no one takes her serious is because of KKK. It is that simple. Anna Wintour has some ungodly love for KW so maybe he could talk her into it, he got Kimmode into the Met Ball after all. This girl needs to break away from anything and everything KrapTrashian and focus purly on herself an maybe she will get better. But maybe she just isn’t high fashion.
Anything that came out of Pimp Momma’s puss is a “Kardashian Kash Kow,” didn’t you know?
lol! Yes I guess I should know that by now! My bad.
I like Kendall and I think she will do very well as a model. KUWTK made her famous and put her in the spotlight, but I think she will do great on her own, and to be away from PMK would be good for her.
She is Kim’s little sister, but I really can’t imagine Kendall making a sex tape. I think Kendall takes after Bruce more than after PMK, and that is a blessing!
With the right modelling coach to teach her the techniques that is needed to enter high fashion industry could help her.. Who interview her, a twelve year old?
If she invest into it she could make it.. Just believe in yourself and its possible..
As much as I dislike the Kardashian klan she seems like a serious person who wants to work hard and make a name for herself. She’s just 17. Good for her.
+1. I’ve never gotten even remotely the same feel from her, as I get from her sisters. She comes across ‘ready’ to work hard, which is more than I could ever say for the others.
Hang on – I thought she “really hated the attention”? Which is obviously why she’s happily posing for the cameras with a lollipop and a plastic duck.
Oh, and wanting to be a model and wanting to be taken seriously are two mutually exclusive things!
she definitely has a model’s body and legs that go on forever. good luck, girl!
I don’t know anything about the modeling industry, so I don’t know if she’s too “commercial” or whatever the phrase is, but I think if Kendall is truly serious about being taken seriously as a model, she needs to get off the show, move to New York, and stop posting pictures of herself wearing the smallest bikinis she can find on Instagram.
Every single person in that family, both immediate and extended, is so full of crap that I’m surprised it’s not coming out of their ears.
nice image of that last one.. 🙂
LOL Loved your post.
Why isn’t this girl enrolling in college? She could model and go to school like Martha Stewart did when she was young!
I hope her and her little sister make it in the modelling world — it seems like their only chance to break free from those godawful reality shows and Kris’ claws.
Or they could further their education and then get a fabulous 9-5 job using their brains.
That will not happen. For instance (and there are several other)…the first time her 100K Range Rover needs 10K tires that whole “I wanna be normal” bullsh!t will go flying out the window. Sorry, I’m not buying that anybody in this family desires to be normal.
Yep, Gina, I couldn’t agree more. She’s not a “normal” person, how could she be, she is her mother’s daughter and her image and persona is just as scripted as that shitty reality show.
I don’t see her as a high fashion model she is too commercial looking I also think that unless she get’s off that show and really get’s into the modeling scene 100 per cent it isn’t going to be seen anymore then a hobby to her. If it wasn’t for the Kardashian name I doubt she would off gotten the jobs she has so far. It’s both a help and a hinderance.
She should aim for commercial contracts like Victoria’s Secret or Revlon or something. Her face isn’t odd or unusual, it’s wholesome and beautiful. She’s barking up the wrong tree with high fashion. She could make a killing as a commercial model. I could see her in Neutrogena adds right now!
I think you’re right. She does have a “wholesome” face. Very pretty girl.
Switching to Marilyn was a good move and good for her for trying to break away from all the tacky commercial crap her mom wants her to do.
I don’t think she’s tall enough for high fashion. Those shots look like photos a highschool friend is taking in your bedroom while you pretend to model. LOL
She’s a pretty girl and nice lines bodywise for a model, but how tall is she? She looks tall next to her five foot two mom and sisters, but that might only put her at five seven, I’m thinking. Not high fashion material if that’s the case.
She’s quite tall, around 5’10” (same height with Khloe).
Actually, Kendall, Kylie, and Khloe are very tall. Kris Jenner is fairly tall too…definitely not 5’2″.
She needs an education? Do any of these people go to school? I know Kris took them out, but this is crazy! She should have gone to Prom & be checking out colleges? This should be her Senior year.. Look at what she’s missed
I try not to pay much attention to the entire family but did any of them finish high school or go to college? I suppose when you have that much money it doesn’t matter as far as getting a “job,” but I think college is important just for developing your brain and interests.
As far as the children that Kris has given birth to, only Kourtney and Rob have college degrees.
@NYC_girl – It’s true… & it does so much for one’s self confidence to have expanded their education. Not to mention a sense of ‘insurance’, should there ever come a time when their current success or financial security fails.
It’s just too easy to look at what one has *now* & assume that will always be the case, so not take any steps prepare themselves for a future in which that isn’t the case.
That’s what I was wondering — has she dropped out of high school? Even if she doesn’t need a job, an education is important, but so many of these young celebrities don’t even have a high school education. They may be rich, but ignorant and dumb is a bad way to go through life.
Cranky old lady comment, I know 😉
She’s very pretty but she looks more like a actress posing as a model. Most of the girls doing haute couture have ‘interesting’ looks. Also, she does not have a personal fashion style. Her total look is like a work of a Hollywood stylist. But good for Kendall for working hard. I’d still prefer her doing high fashion campaigns than the likes of Charlotte Free. Maybe if Kendall hangs out with Terry Richardson, act grungey and dye her hair pink she’d be taken seriously.
They are never going to take her seriously because they know her famewhoring family too well. The success of one of them is the success of all of them. If she thinks she has a shot at Vogue or any other high end stuff, she’s in for a big surprise. Also, I don’t really think she has the high fashion look either. She’s very commercial. I think she’s wasting her time, but soon enough you’ll see her get her own show to compensate for that failure.
I think Kris really worked hard at convincing this kid to be a model (while completely neglecting the youngest one, hurting her self-esteem forever probably) and at deluding herself like the entire family has.
Sorry, sweetie, you are a KarTrashian, no one will ever take you seriously.
If she ever wants to be taken seriously in any endeavor, she will have to break away from that circus of a family she has. She has to get out of her mother’s clutches and emancipate herself. Otherwise it will be Kris calling the shots on everything from her career to her boyfriends/marriages, and so on.
Cute girl, pretty, but doesn’t have any WOW .
Yep, she’s pretty, but she’s certainly not anything special.
She’s not taken seriously because she’s related to the Kardashians. Unfortunately, everyone judges this 17-year-old based on who her family is. Which is completely unfair, by the way- we should judge people individually for the things they say and do, not for their DNA. But it seems like most people can’t understand that logic. It is what it is.
It’s hard not to judge her because of her family. If not for them, she’d be competing with every pretty girl in the country who wants to model.
I doubt she would be getting as far as she does without their name attached. She is a pretty girl, but her family’s name has gotten her so very far. She may break away from it yet though.
This girl was birthed and raised by the Jenner moron. To think she’s unlike the rest of them would be ignorant. Everything is an act, and everyone is for sale.
When you do something worthwhile then maybe it will happen. The opinion of most models is that they are airheads.
She has potential but unfortunately for her, anyone dealing with her would be highly associated with the K brand and most vendors do not want to touch that mess.
Her sisters reputation will make it hard for her to be taken seriously. Which doesn’t make a lot of sense because she’s definitely a Jenner and has no Kardashian in her at all!
GO TO SCHOOL GURL!
She could do it. She should finish school first.
I don’t think she has the face for high fashion; she’s plain.
Also, she’s quite thin. One, and maybe the only, positive thing I can say about the Kardashian females is that they have healthy bodies.
I just checked out pics of the fashion shows in Paris and most of those models are rail thin and extremely plain and dare I say ugly even homely looking so Kendall has a chance. I used to think of models as interesting but these girls are plain and boring. Someone please educate me in this. Have we run out if attractive females the world over? Surely there is someone with an interesting face. I would never tell anyone I was a model if I looked like these women.
Oh and I would be happy if Kendall was very successful if only to show that the Jenner spawn is better than the Kartrashian heap of slop.
I don’t think it’s the “Kardashian gene” that makes these females so devoid of humanity, I think it’s a “Jenner” thing, and that’s something they ALL share.
TG, many high fashion models [these days] are plain and boring, and they all look the same, This is because designers want you to focus on their designs, not the beautiful models. When the original supermodels were around (Christy, Naomi, Claudia etc) it was the models who sold the clothes, not the strength of the designs. Nowadays they have celebrities to do that and models to just showcase the designs.
Although models are lauded, I don’t think it’s particularly ambitious to be a HF model. They are just glorified coat hangers who do nothing but walk down a runway, get changed and do it again.
I think that Kendall would be great with neutrogena, as somebody above said. Perfect fit! And VS. She definitely looks like a VS model.
I diasgree with most posters and think the only reason she gets ANY jobs is her connection to the Kardashian sisters.
She is not beautiful and barely has what it takes to be a catalog model let alone high fashion. She is as delusional as the rest of her family!
Really, she’s not beautiful?
Can we see a picture of what you look like?
She IS beautiful. We can’t deny that.
If her mother knew at the age of 13 Kendall wanted to be a serious model, she should NOT have put her in their reality show. The show ruined any future career the younger girls wanted to have.
Kendall is pretty and has gorgeous hair and a stunning 17 year old model-y body. But she’s just NOT high fashion. And anyone who really IS high fashion is now out there talking about how high fashion they are or want to be! lol
i think she is the only attractive kid PMK has
i dread the day when i log into cb and see her with a whole new face. you know it’s coming
I do think her features (currently) are more suited to more ‘commercial’ modelling endeavors. But I wish her luck in everything she goes for.
I’ve always reserved judgement when it comes to the Jenner girls. (It must get pretty annoying for them, always being lumped in as ‘Kardashians’ when they have *no* relation to him). They haven’t done anything (yet) that’s given me some reason to dislike them.
So for now, Goodluck, girls! =)
I don’t see her going anywhere big with modelling. She doesn’t have the right look for high fashion at all, and she doesn’t pose well. She’s a very pretty girl, but not unusually so. I see dozens of girls who look like her everyday. She isn’t beautiful enough to land major cosmetics contracts or to be a VS Angel. She could do things like Neutrogena, Clearasil, budget beauty brands aimed at teens, but she definitely doesn’t have what it takes to be a supermodel.
With ‘PEOPLE’ dont take me seriously,she means:ARE U LISTENING MOMMY?Are u there?
I think she’s fighting an uphill battle. She will never be taken seriously about anything because she’s associated with the Kartrahians. I know the first thing I think when I look at her picture is her being PMK’s daughter.