In a candid cover story for British Vogue, Kylie Jenner opens up about her experiences as a young mother, the effects of pregnancy on her body, her struggle with postpartum depression, and the moments when she felt like a “failure.”
Reflecting on her journey to motherhood, the 27-year-old recalls, “I was 19 when I got pregnant, 20 when I had her. It was wild. Looking back, I give myself more empathy and grace. But when I was a teenager, even my family said, ‘You aren’t that young.’ Maybe I carried myself a certain way or felt mature because I had been working for 10 years. It didn’t hit me right away, but it was a huge life change.”
Jenner, who shares her children Stormi and Aire with ex-boyfriend Travis Scott, revealed that she experienced prolonged postpartum depression after both births. “Stormi’s lasted a year,” she said, noting that Aire’s lasted about the same amount of time. “Now that I’m turning 27, I feel like myself again. Looking back, I wore sweatpants every day during my pregnancies, and I didn’t have time to figure out the little things in life, then postpartum depression lasted a year.” However, she admitted to feeling more emotional after having her son, especially when it came to naming him.
She recalls being “on the phone with my mom, I was hysterically crying, saying, ‘I can’t figure out his name.’ Now my advice to all my friends having children is to pick the name beforehand because when the hormones hit, you can’t make decisions,” she explained. “When I met him, he was just the most beautiful thing to me, and I couldn’t believe how perfect he was. I felt like such a failure that I couldn’t name him. He deserved so much more than that. It really triggered me.”
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Initially naming him Wolf, she later changed it to Knight, but they ultimately settled on Aire.
Kylie also discussed how public scrutiny regarding her body affected her. “I was 200 pounds when I gave birth to my 9-pound babies: 8.3 and 8.9,” she revealed. “I lost all the baby weight after my daughter and then got pregnant with my son two months later.”
“I feel like people don’t give me, or women in general, enough empathy. I see pictures online, and people accuse me of being on drugs or something,” she said, referencing rumors about her using the weight loss medication, Ozempic.
“I’m back at my weight from before I had my daughter and son, and people are posting side-by-sides of me three months postpartum,” Jenner stated. “Does everyone forget that I had two children and gained 60 pounds during both pregnancies?”
Despite the noise from the outside, Kylie finds solace in her children’s unconditional love: “No matter what I’m going through or how I look, or what the internet says, I come home, and my kids just love me unconditionally. They think I’m the most perfect person in the world, so I don’t really need validation from outside sources.”
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