Kendall Jenner was 10 years old when reality cameras started trailing her family for their game-changing reality show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians. As pre-teens, she and her younger sister, Kylie, mainly featured as side-characters to the drama surrounding the older members of her family – parents Kris and Caitlyn Jenner, and siblings Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob – but the global attention did have its impact.
“It’s a little Hannah Montana-y in a way,” Kendall explained recently in an episode of Emma Chamberlain’s Anything Goes podcast. “[But] I didn’t have a disguise, or I didn’t have a physical shift.
“We went to school. We went to school as long as we could – I started home school 11th and 12th grade … so even though we had a TV show at home, we were going to regular school all day and had our friends that we had from before the show started.”
Unlike her school friends, however, Kendall, now 28, said that dealing with paparazzi and “internet hate” was challenging, but she’s happy with how her loved ones helped her handle it.
“We lived as much of a normal life as, I think, was possible and I’m so grateful for that,” she said. “Overall, I am really grateful because I think it could have been a lot worse.”
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