LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — The youngest of the Kardashian-Jenner family has officially been named the world's youngest self-made billionaire by Forbes.<br /><br />Kylie Jenner was just a child when her sisters started filming popular reality show Keeping up with the Kardashians back in 2007.<br /><br />Since then, she has constantly courted controversy for things like getting lip injections at a young age and for allegedly undergoing plastic surgery.<br /><br />All this worked in her favor and exponentially increased her social media following. <br /><br />Kylie even acknowledged this in an interview with Forbes saying, "It's the power of social media, I had such a strong reach before I was able to start anything."<br /><br />The 21-year-old acquired the bulk of her fortune through Kylie Cosmetics, a makeup company she launched in 2015 when she was just a teenager, according to Forbes.<br /><br />Kylie launched the company with the infamous Kylie Lip Kits, directly through social media to her tens of millions of fans.<br /><br />The company has since gone on to be worth at least US$900 million, with Kylie owning 100 percent of the company.<br /><br />However, many have argued that the 21-year-old can't be "self-made" because her family are well-known reality TV stars, and gave her the platform to succeed and build her cosmetics company.
