Kylie Jenner Opens Up About the Promise She Made to Herself
Kylie Jenner thinks she “absolutely” grew up quickly and missed out on some things by having children at a young age.
"COVID was my college experience — when everything was shut down and no one was really working,” Jenner, 29, said during an interview with WhoWhatWear published on Thursday, August 27. “It was the first time that I slowed down, and the world started to feel safe again. For the first time in my life, there wasn't a schedule. Sometimes, I feel like a robot, where everything is planned out for me. Khy meetings on Wednesday, blah, blah, blah.”
She continued, “But COVID felt like I had a college experience — friends over all the time, and we were always celebrating something or trying to just be together. I was like, 'Wow, I never had that thing of, like, no other outside responsibilities — except Stormi.'"
Jenner welcomed her daughter, Stormi, in 2018 with on-again, off-again ex Travis Scott. The pair then expanded their family with son Aire, who was born four years later. Jenner and Scott have since split and the Kardashians star has moved on with boyfriend Timothée Chalamet.
"I made a promise to myself at 25 that I was not going to have any more children — right now — and really just enjoy the last half of my 20s because the first half was like, 'You're pregnant,' and then it's the year of recovery, and, you know, my mental state, my postpartum depression, and all those things,” she said. “It felt like I lost some of those young years of my life.”
Throughout the interview, the reporter noted that Jenner said she’s “almost 30” more than once — potentially noting that she’s ready to turn the chapter into a new decade. When asked if there’s anything she’d like to leave behind or she’s changed her mind about, Jenner replied, "I think having an enormous life.”
"I changed my mind about that,” she explained. “When I was younger, I got really excited, and I got the craziest house I could in Beverly Hills, and I just kind of went for it. I've realized that my life got too big, and I said, 'Yeah, never mind.' I think I lost control of my life a little bit for a while there."
Elsewhere, Jenner reflected on feeling like “the clock is ticking” despite being “still so young.”
“So you're trying… I'm trying… I don't want to look back on life and be like, There's things that I wish I did when I was younger. Even though I already have children — so young — I feel like I lived such an adult life when I was young, and I'm trying to make sure that I don't have any regrets and to do brave things and give myself more opportunities or take advantage of the ones I have,” she said.
She continued, "Kim [Kardashian] inspires me in that way because she does a lot of things that excite her but, at the same time, scare her. And it's amazing to watch her achieve and chase her dreams. I'm just trying to do more things, choose a few things a year, get out of my comfort zone, and just go for it."
