Kendall Jenner Says Kim Kardashian Hinders her Career

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Kendall Jenner is best known for being the younger sister of the Kardashian sisters, but she’s trying to make her way into the fashion industry despite her name. For the past few years, Jenner has worked as a model for big name brands, walking runways and posing for photo spreads in some of the biggest magazines in the world. However, she firmly believes that her success has nothing to do with her last name or her relationship with the Kardashians. She believes that her success has come in spite of these things.

“People think that this success just came to me. But it didn’t. What I have has almost worked against me. I had to work even harder to get where I wanted because people didn’t take me seriously as a model. Because of the TV show. I went to castings and some people weren’t feeling me because of my name. But it was great when people didn’t recognize me. I was like, ‘Thank you. Please don’t recognize me,’” she says of her career.

In the past few years, Jenner has landed campaigns working with designers and walking runways for designers such as Marc Jacobs, Chanel and Givenchy. Her success has grown tremendously since she began her modeling career. With her tall, thin frame and face, she makes a great model, and she wants to be taken seriously in the business. She does not want to be labeled because of the identity of her sisters, particularly Kim. In fact, she doesn’t even let Kim come to some of her shows.

“Kim was invited to a lot of the shows that I was in. She called me before and was like, ‘Hey, I was invited to the show, I just wanted to let you know. Do you want me to come?’ and I was like, ‘No,’” says Jenner of her sister.

As for Kim, she’s proud of her younger sister, “She had to work extra hard to gain this respect and to fight for people to see she’s serious. Marc Jacobs gave her a real shot and treated her like any other model…then Riccardo (Tisci) and Karl (Lagerfeld) gave her a chance and she has proven that she is the real deal,” Kim says of her sister’s success. Thought we’re guessing that since Kim is on a first name basis with these designers, Jenner’s ability to get noticed by big name designers has a little something to do with her name – even though she clearly has the look and the talent to get by on her own. Her last name probably just opened doors faster than it would have if her last name was anything else.

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