Kylie Checks Out: Baby No. 3 Is Not Happening
The most interesting thing Kylie Jenner said this week had nothing to do with a product launch, a red carpet, or a carefully lit mirror selfie.
Kylie Checks Out: Baby No. 3 Is Not Happening
The most interesting thing Kylie Jenner said this week had nothing to do with a product launch, a red carpet, or a carefully lit mirror selfie. It was quieter than that. Asked about expanding her family beyond Stormi and Aire, Kylie Jenner said she wants to "just enjoy the last half of my 20s" — which, when you translate it from Calabasas to English, means: I am twenty-eight years old and I am done performing motherhood for content.
This is not a small statement from a Jenner. The family business has always been structured around the next chapter — the next baby, the next relationship, the next thing to document and monetise. Kylie stepping off that conveyor belt, even temporarily, is a move worth watching. She is the youngest one. She was also the one who announced a pregnancy via a documentary. The gap between then and now is not a gap in time — it is a different woman entirely.
Meanwhile, Jacob Elordi is having a complicated week on two fronts. The Dog Stars, his thriller with Ridley Scott, opened to eight million dollars at the box office — which is the kind of number that gets described as "underperforming" in trades and "a disaster" in group chats. More interesting, though, is what is circulating around Kendall Jenner and a miniature wire-haired dachshund named Finn, who was photographed peeking out of a Tori tote while Kendall wore The Row head to toe in Los Angeles. The dog has a name. The name is Finn. Kendall's ex-boyfriend's surname is Elordi. The internet noticed the arithmetic immediately and Kendall, as always, said absolutely nothing, which is its own kind of answer.
At the U.S. Open, the celebrity sightings were doing exactly what celebrity sightings at the U.S. Open always do — providing courtside content while everyone pretended the tennis was the main event. And Sydney Sweeney launched a lingerie campaign for her own line that went viral before the ink dried on the press release, which will surprise no one who has been paying attention to how precisely she has built her brand in the last eighteen months.
The Jenner girl who said nothing is always the one worth quoting.
