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I’m slowly coming around to Kendall Jenner-as-model. I used to just roll my eyes and mutter about nepotism, but as Kendall’s modeling career gets more heat and she gets more editorial work, I’m not hating it. She photographs well. She looks a lot like a young Ali McGraw, and I love Ali McGraw, so it’s a good association. I don’t even hate Kendall’s new cover editorial for Harper’s Bazaar, shot by Karl Lagerfeld. The photos are sort of pleasantly bland. I think she was going for sexy and modern, but that’s not coming across (though her hair looks great). Anyway, while I’m currently okay with Kendall’s career, you couldn’t pay me to find her an interesting interview subject. She’s not as vapid as Kylie, but Kendall just is NOT interesting. Even doing a dual interview with Karl Lagerfeld doesn’t make her more interesting. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

On being raised in the public eye: “We were brought up in this abnormal world, if that’s what you want to call it. I feel like a lot of people say that kids who grow up in that kind of world go crazy. But it has everything to do with how your parents raise you. I was raised so normally, or as normally as I could have been.”

On what she thought she wanted to be when she grew up: “I’ve always loved animals. I rode horses for 10 and a half years, so I thought I was going to be a professional horseback rider and then a vet. I used to play these vet video games.”

On meeting new people and being closed off: “I’m not super open to new people. I have a small group of people I trust. I’m very intuitive, so I’m good at feeling out how people are, like if they have bad intentions. Sometimes I’m very closed off, which annoys me, but I think it’s for the best.”

On her taste in music: “I went to Justin Bieber’s concert the other night. Of course I have the fever! He’s a really good friend of the family’s, so we all went to support him. Kanye went two nights in a row. He’s a huge fan – I was shocked. He was dancing around the whole night, having so much fun”

She loves Beyonce too: “Beyoncé. Oh, my God, are you kidding? I am 100 percent a huge fan of Beyoncé. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet—I just shut up and bow down.”

She’s stalked by paparazzi: “Yes, they wait outside my house every single day. It’s so crazy to me because it’s stalking at this point. When I say every day, I’m not kidding. I don’t understand how that is legal. There should be some kind of Sunday off or something.”

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

I look at paparazzi photos all day, every day, and so I end up getting a sense of who the biggest paparazzi targets are. And much like the Elizabeth Olsen thing, I have to wonder if there’s something I’m missing? Is Kendall Jenner as famous as she thinks she is? Unlike Olsen – who really seemed to have inflated sense of her own celebrity – Kendall does get pap’d when she’s working in Paris, or at LAX, or at a nightclub, or filming KUWTK. But… there aren’t photos of her every day. And I’m pretty sure the whole clan lives in a gated estate, so how are there paparazzi waiting outside her house every day?

Photos courtesy of Karl Lagerfeld/Harper’s Bazaar.
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