As most of you know, 27-year-old reality star (and billionaire!) Kylie Jenner is a proud momma to 6-year-old Stormi and 2-year-old Aire. She shares both her daughter and son with her ex-boyfriend, Travis Scott.
During a recent conversation with British Vogue, Jenner talked about how difficult it was entering mom mode at such a young age. After all, she was 19 when she first got pregnant and just 20 when she gave birth.
It was wild. Looking back at it, I give myself more empathy and grace. But when I was a teenager, even my family were like: ‘You aren’t that young.’ I think maybe I carried myself [a certain way] or I’d already been working for 10 years. It didn’t hit me [straight away]. But it was a huge life change. I have this daughter and I just want the best for her and I want her to just love herself unconditionally.
She also talked about her struggles with postpartum depression. She didn’t experience it too much with her daughter, but after giving birth to her son, it hit her pretty hard.
I’m going to be 27, and I’m finally feeling like myself again. And [looking back] I think, being pregnant, I wore sweatpants every day, I didn’t have time to figure out even some of the little things in my life, and then postpartum lasted a year. Mentally, it’s really hard. Hormonally, it’s really hard.
Jenner talked about how much pressure she put on herself to name her son. You’ll remember, she originally named her son Wolf, but then decided it didn’t fit him.
She spent the next few months trying to come up with a different name. Jenner remembered crying all day to her mom on the phone.
When I met him, he was just the most beautiful thing to me and I couldn’t believe just how perfect he was. I felt like such a failure that I couldn’t name him. He deserved so much more than that. It just really triggered me.
That’s right. Even a 27-year-old billionaire feels like a failure sometimes. That’s motherhood for you.
