Reuters Kylie Jenner has become the youngest member of Forbes Magazine’s ‘nine-zero’ club. Kylie Jenner, the youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner American reality TV family, has become the youngest ever billionaire at the age of just 21.
Jenner, who grew up under the watch of TV cameras filming Keeping Up with the Kardashians, was on Tuesday admitted to the “nine-zero” fortune club by Forbes. The business magazine ranked Jenner as the world’s 2,057th richest person, and crowned her the “youngest ever billionaire in the world”. She becomes a billionaire two years younger than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg who took the title at the age of 23.
“I didn’t expect anything. I did not foresee the future,” Jenner said in an interview with Forbes to celebrate her good fortune. “But [the recognition] feels really good. That’s a nice pat on the back.”
i can’t wait to launch a new product for @kyliecosmetics 😝 can you guess what it is? ✨ pic.twitter.com/guSSeq4QGr— Kylie Jenner (@KylieJenner) 16 February 2019
Jenner’s fortune comes from Kylie Cosmetics, the makeup company she runs largely from her black iPhone X, with the help of her mother Kris. Forbes estimated that the cosmetics company, which is 100%-owned by Jenner, made $360m (£274m) in sales last year.
Forbes’s estimate of Jenner’s wealth comes in its annual ranking of the world’s billionaires. Its research found that the total number of billionaires had declined over the past year from 2,208 to 2,153.
The world’s richest person remains Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos with a $131bn (£99bn) fortune, up $19bn (£15bn) on 2018.
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