Kendall Jenner is a Scorpio. And it’s with typical Scorpio reserve that Jenner and I don’t discuss that fact until nearly the end of our time together. But the qualities ascribed to the sign weave throughout our conversation. Jenner speaks often of change and evolution. “I feel like I am coming into my womanhood,” she tells me, “and having so many strong women around me has helped shape my sense of worth.”
Jenner, 27, is in a starkly white room with shelves full of art books and novels behind her. She’s dressed casually in a black tank, her hair pulled back, her skin dewy. She looks as if she’s just come from a hike or a trip to the dog run, the platonic ideal of how one might look lounging around the house. When she speaks, it’s with the self-awareness of someone who has spent her entire adult life in front of a camera. She often qualifies what she’s saying with how it must come off. “I probably sound so LA,” she says at one point. Later: “I probably sound corny.” It reads less as nervousness than as someone who is used to being observed, cutting off the observer at the pass, a reminder that she knows how others might try to fit her into a narrative. Even as she is looked at, she is looking back.
Jenner’s family has been at the vanguard of global popular culture since Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered in 2007. The show, which aired for 14 years on E!, moved last year to Hulu, where it was rechristened The Kardashians. Jenner was 11 when it first aired, positioned early on as the kid sister involved in wholesome scrapes with younger sibling Kylie, in contrast to the inside view of their older sisters’ lives as they worked to build their brand and fame. But Jenner remembers her childhood as a place with spaces of sanctuary. “I just kind of kept to myself,” she says. “I loved hiding out in my room and doing my own thing or riding my horses.”
“She’s always been very definite about who she was,” her…
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