Kylie Jenner has said that she regrets having cosmetic surgery on her body, after opening up about her boob job for the primary time. Within the season finalé of The Kardashians which was released today (July 27), Kylie spoke candidly about undergoing surgery on her breasts just months before getting pregnant with Stormi, and the way having a daughter has caused her to rethink a lot of the selections she made about her body at a young age. “I could be heartbroken if she desired to get her body done at 19,” Kylie says about her daughter. 

All of it starts when Kylie is joined by her longtime friend Anastasia Karanikolaou and the 2 start catching up. After joking concerning the rumours that they’re dating – “we identical to to kiss one another and stuff” – the discussion turns to the boob job she had as a youngster. “You recognize I got my breasts done before Stormi… not pondering I’d have a baby once I was 20,” Kylie begins, saying that inside six months she got pregnant while she was still healing from the surgery. 

“I had beautiful breasts, like natural tits. Just gorgeous,” she continues. “And I just wish obviously I never got them done to start with.” The change of heart has come, Kylie says, after having a daughter of her own and eager about what she would want for Stormi. “I could be heartbroken if she desired to get her body done at 19. She’s probably the most beautiful thing ever, I wanna be one of the best mom and best example for her and I just wish I may very well be her and do all of it in another way, because I wouldn’t touch anything.”    

For those who haven’t been following together with the ins and outs of the Kardashians’ ongoing beauty standards conversation, here’s a quick recap. Back in April, a trailer was released for the most recent season of the family’s reality TV show, which appeared to indicate Kylie addressing the harmful and not possible beauty standards her family sets and saying that she wished she had never “touched” her appearance. “All of us just must have an even bigger conversation concerning the beauty standards that we’re setting,” Kylie is shown saying to her sisters, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian.

While just a brief clip, the moment appeared to suggest that the family might finally have some meaningful conversations around beauty standards, body image and the harmful impact that they’ve had on our self-esteem. Nonetheless, when the discussion was aired last week, the three not only didn’t admit any accountability – Kylie’s line from the trailer was cut from the scene entirely – but in addition they played the victim of the standards which they’ve done a lot to uphold and perpetuate. 

Although Kylie starts the conversation by addressing the large influence they’ve and asking “what are we doing with our power”, the discussion never attempts to reckon with that power and the main target quickly turns to placing the blame on everyone except themselves, from mother Kris Jenner to “society”. “Other people can instil insecurities in you,” says Kylie. Khloé follows this up with: “That’s how I accrued all of mine, is from other people. I had probably the most confidence. I used to be chubby and in a skintight body-con dress. Society gave me insecurities.”

As many have identified, this can be a family who has profited hugely from upholding the wonder standards they’re claiming to be so hurt by. From waist trainers, detox teas and weight loss plan supplements to shapewear, make-up and skincare products, they’ve made thousands and thousands from selling the concept there’s a right solution to look and that your life shall be infinitely improved in case you adhere to those ideals. So to maintain placing the blame on others and refusing to look at their very own impact on people is, at this point, each willfully ignorant and insulting.

In the identical conversation, Kylie addresses what she calls the “misconceptions” that she has had surgery to alter her whole face, which she claimed is fake and that she has had “only fillers”. Creating this strange moral distinction between surgery and injectables, nonetheless, doesn’t absolve Kylie from the part she is playing in upholding beauty standards, particularly when it’s the rise of “non-invasive” procedures like injectables which have been so instrumental in making a beauty tax that’s higher than ever and our current self-esteem crisis.

Slightly than casting themselves within the role of damsels in distress, how rather more powerful would it not be if the Kardashians took accountability after which used their platforms to make a change? The family wields huge influence and power – unlike so many ladies who’re genuinely on the mercy of society’s beauty standards and suffer socially and financially due to them. “Poorly groomed” women stand to earn 40 per cent lower than their beautified counterparts, for instance, while attractive persons are over 20 per cent more more likely to be called back for a job interview, and are perceived to be more socially expert, trustworthy, confident and competent. 

The Kardashians could channel the pain they’ve suffered into changing the system, quite than upholding and making the most of it. Step one is to interrogate their impact in a very meaningful way – and to try this, they should finally admit they’re the issue.

Of all of the sisters, Kylie appears to be the one who’s most open and willing to broach the topic. Who knows what else she said within the conversation with Kourtney and Khloé that has been left on the cutting room floor? And while she may not yet be on the stage of taking accountability for her influence, when she does she has the prospect to make a real impact – and one that can make an enduring change on society.

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