Perhaps you’ve seen Vanity Fair’s spring issue cover, starring Kylie Jenner, whom I profiled in the magazine—the photos by Mert Alas are, um, lighting up the internet. But no, Kylie wasn’t smoking a cigarette when I went to meet her in January at her bonkers-enormous LA mansion that is actually more of a compound, a crazy-size plot of land amid some of the most valuable real estate on planet Earth. She was drinking out of not one but two of those HydroJug Traveler bottles she always has, and at one point in the middle of our long conversation, a staffer plonked down a spread of some crazy-good local cheeses accompanied by fancy crackers.
We needed the fuel—there was a lot to talk about. On the table: raising children, making movies, the Warholian nature of fame, her role as a media powerhouse. We talked about the origins of her business empire: “My mom was like, ‘You are going to be left with lots of lip kits in your garage if this doesn’t work out.’ And it wasn’t even a thought that it wasn’t going to work out.” We talked about playing poker with the LA art crew—wow, does Kylie Jenner love to play poker. She revealed that she wanted to have more kids. And she opened up about her dreams of Hollywood—just in time for the Academy Awards. Her boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet, is up for best actor, and the Vanity Fair Oscar Party is going down for the first time at LACMA.
(And yes, she talked about Chalamet, in her own way—just read the whole story, you won’t regret it, seriously.)
Elsewhere on VF.com, check out my colleague Dan Adler’s all-access profile of far-right Florida gubernatorial long-shot James Fishback—just because he’s way down in the polls doesn’t mean you can write off what he represents. And be sure to read Arvand Khosravi’s brilliantly insightful look into the history of conflict in Iran, from his perspective as an Iranian American born in Paris who has spent his life grappling with the United States’ interventions in his ancestral homeland.
That’s all for today. Enjoy the last hours of False Spring. And as Royal Flush Kylie says: Good luck on the poker table. |
NATE FREEMAN,
CORRESPONDENT, ARTS AND CULTURE |
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