If we all sit still, breathe evenly, and act like Kylie Jenner casually revealing her boob job specs in a TikTok comment isn’t a cultural earthquake, maybe she’ll finally disclose what ancient Sumerian magic gave her those lips.
Or was it just six lip liners and the right lighting? Maybe one day she’ll tell us.
In a plot twist worthy of endless cultural discourse (you’re in the right place), Kylie Jenner, 27-year-old lip kit queen and reality TV shapeshifter, decided to reveal the exact specs of her breast implants.
Not on a talk show. Not in Vogue. But in the comments section of a TikTok…like a true Gen Zer.
On June 2, British YouTuber Rachel Leary joined legions of fans who have called for Kylie to get specific about how she got her enviable rack – but this time, Kylie actually answered.
‘Girl, please can you tell us what it is you asked for when you had your boobs done?’ Leary said in the video.
‘To me, you’ve got what I am looking for to have done in terms of a boob job. It’s the most perfect, natural looking boob job ever. They’re still big, but whatever way you had the implants, if they are implants, or if you had fat transfer, to me it is perfection. That is what I aspire mine to look like.’
The next day, Kylie commented on the post from her verified account: ‘445 cc, moderate profile, half under the muscle!!! silicone!!! garth fisher!!! hope this helps lol.’
This is, of course, a major shift from her earlier stance, in which she claimed her only enhancement was filler – and even that took a long time for her to admit.
First, in 2014, when asked about her obviously enlarged lips, she told E!: ‘In pictures, I put them out a lot. I think big lips are awesome. I love overlining my lips,’ implying that lip liner explained her pout.
Even as recently as 2023, Kylie said on The Kardashians: ‘One of the biggest misconceptions is that I was an insecure child and got a bunch of surgery, which is false. I’ve only gotten fillers.’
To be fair, Kylie did later correct this, telling W Magazine later that year she had a boob job before giving birth to Stormi, her daughter and future bestselling tell-all memoirist (hopefully). She reflected: ‘I got my breasts done before Stormi, not thinking I would have a child when I was 20. Like, they were still healing.’
She continued: ‘I had beautiful breasts… and I just wish I never got them done.’
Naturally, the internet collapsed under the weight of Kylie’s new TikTok admission.
@YSLONIKA posted, ‘Kylie Jenner casually sharing her breast implant details with this girl… she’s so REAL.’
Meanwhile, @yasscorset screamed the collective betrayal of a generation: ‘SHE SWORE IT WAS THAT DAMN VICTORIA’S SECRET BRA.’
And here we arrive at the central question: is this feminism? Should we celebrate Kylie’s admission? Or is it just late-stage influencer capitalism with a silicone twist?
Transparency? Check. Body autonomy? Check. Reparations for the psychological damage inflicted on Gen Z girls who thought a push-up bra could defy gravity and physics? Pending.
On one hand, Kylie sharing the details – unprompted, no less – is a genuinely helpful gesture to her fans who may have compared their own bodies to Kylie’s for years and found their non-surgical breasts wanting.
She gave specifics. She named a surgeon. She added exclamation marks, which is basically Gen Z for ‘I care about you.’
In a world of euphemisms like ‘refreshed,’ ‘sculpted,’ ‘just water and sleep!’ (we’re looking at you Lindsay Lohan), her bluntness feels weirdly radical.
There’s something to be said for the power of a woman openly discussing plastic surgery, demystifying the pressure to be ‘naturally’ flawless.
But then… the years of denial. The fillers she didn’t have. The bras that lied. The immaculate lips supposedly built from nothing but elbow grease and MAC Spice.
That’s not empowerment; that’s gaslighting with good lighting.
As @JasmeenD pointed out: ‘It took her 10 years for her to be a girl’s girl BTW!!!! Now we wait another 10 years for her to tell us her BBL doctor.’
In the end, Kylie’s revelation is both too little, too late and weirdly refreshing. It’s like an apology from your toxic 2016 boyfriend who swore he didn’t know how Tinder got on his phone – you knew all along, you’re still mad, but at least you have a little closure.
No matter how often plastic surgery is repackaged as ‘self-care’ or bodily autonomy, the truth remains: invasive and often dangerous procedures that women undergo to meet unrealistic, male-gaze-driven beauty standards are as tragic as, deep down, we all know they are.
The only thing worse? Lying about cosmetic procedures so women feel worse about themselves for not naturally living up to those beauty standards.
None of that is to say that you can really blame Kylie for her reticence to come clean. She grew up in the public eye under constant media scrutiny for her appearance in a family known for their love of beauty enhancements.
Even more so, Kylie doesn’t actually owe us anything; her body belongs to her, and she has every right to do whatever she wants with it without issuing a press release.
However, she’s also in the public eye in a significant way and has been a major influence on countless young girls and their perceptions of beauty.
So, to the extent that Kylie’s new willingness to share details signals personal growth – and an admission that even she can’t naturally meet the impossible standards placed on women – it’s something to celebrate.
But is she a feminist icon? Maybe not.
Still, in this increasingly absurd cultural landscape of 12-year-olds using retinol and women risking their lives getting dodgy BBLs in foreign countries, Kylie’s transparency is a bittersweet, backwards kind of progress.
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