Kylie Jenner, 20, almost billionaire thanks to social networks

Kylie Jenner, 20, almost billionaire thanks to social networks
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/ Angela WEISS

She's a great fit for social networks and business savvy: soon to be 21 years old, Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, is about to become one of the youngest billionaires on the planet. [19659003] The ranking comes from Forbes magazine, which put it on the cover of its August issue. According to him, Kylie Jenner already has an empire evaluated "at the low end" to $ 900 million, three years after founding a cosmetics company in his name, whose success owes a lot to a treatment to increase volume of lips.

A success fueled by Kylie Jenner's huge audience on social media. The young woman, who became a mom in February, has 110 million followers on Instagram, making her one of the 10 most followed celebrities in the world on this popular celebrity network (Selena Gomez and Cristiano Ronaldo are the two

With only seven full-time employees, Kylie Jenner is witnessing a "new model of celebrity usage," says Forbes. "Basically, all that Jenner does to make all this money is to use her audience on social media."

Kylie Jenner, who no longer inflates her lips today, had cleverly orchestrated on Instagram , in February, the announcement of the birth of the little girl she had with rapper Travis Scott.

After months of silence on social networks, she had, for example, broadcast on YouTube an 11-minute video illustrating "key" moments of her motherhood, watched 11 million times in just 12 hours.

Forbes qualifies the young woman of "youngest billionaire to have made herself alone". But many on social networks challenged Wednesday this qualification.

Kylie Jenner, far from being a part of nothing, derives much of its success from its membership in the Kardashian-Jenner clan, master of the commercial use of

At the age of 10, she was on television for the beginning of the reality show "Keeping up with the Kardashians", which made the family famous.

The "Clan "did not fail to applaud Forbes' coverage on social networks. "Billion dollar baby!", Said Kim Kardashian-West, while mother Kris Jenner said she was "so proud" of everything her daughter had done.

12/07/2018 01:37:48 –
New York (AFP) –
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