“It’s the power of social media" Kylie Jenner says.

Kylie Jenner Becomes The Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Ever at the Age of 21.

She announces product launches, previews new items and announces the Kylie Cosmetics shades she’s wearing directly to the 175 million-plus who follow her across Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

“It’s the power of social media,” Jenner says. “I had such a strong reach before I was able to start anything.”

At 21, celebrity-turned-makeup mogul Kylie Jenner, a member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan is the youngest self-made billionaire ever. Kylie Jenner, who started out peddling $29 lip kits in 2015, sold an estimated $360 million worth of Kylie Cosmetics in 2018. In November 2018, Jenner launched a distribution deal with beauty retailer Ulta and sold an estimated $55 million of product in just 6 weeks. Thanks to its super low overhead and massive sales, the company is worth at least $900 million.

Jenner owns a 100% stake. Jenner, who comes from a wealthy family, has leveraged her 177 million social media followers to create her own billion-dollar fortune.She used $250,000 of her earnings from modeling gigs to pay an outside company to produce her first 15,000 lip kits.

Whatever happens next, one thing is certain. Jenner will share it all on social media, much to the delight of her tens of millions of fans.

She is, after all, the first selfie-made billionaire.

Burch Keskin