Kylie Jenner Talks Motherhood: See Her Best Quotes About Having Children and Being a Young Mom

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Kylie Jenner Talks Motherhood: See Her Best Quotes About Having Children and Being a Young Mom

The world was shocked when news broke that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott were expecting their first child together when the Life of Kylie star was just 20 — but she was open about her desire to be a mom long before welcoming her daughter and son. "Being a young mom just means we met a little early and I get to love you a little longer,” Jenner captioned an Instagram post featuring photos of her eldest child, Stormi (born February 2018) on Mother's Day in May 2022. Jenner kept her pregnancy with Stormi under wraps. Us Weekly confirmed that she and Scott shared the happy news with their friends in September 2017 (a month after the reality star's 20th birthday), but the Kylie Cosmetics founder didn't let fans in on the news until she gave birth to her daughter. "I’m sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions,” Jenner wrote on Instagram days after welcoming Stormi. “I understand you’re used to me bringing you along on all my journeys. My pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world. … I appreciate my friends and especially my family for helping me make this special moment as private as we could.” The decision seemed to follow her plans to keep her family life private. As a teenager, Jenner thought she would raise her children away from the bright lights of Hollywood after starting her own reality TV career at age 9. "I would love to have a family and build a home with a farm in Malibu Canyon and just have my kids and throw away my phone,” she explained to ELLE U.K. in 2015. “Just really, like, live my life and not do this anymore.” However, the Kendall + Kylie designer didn't seem to have any plans to run away from Tinseltown after signing on to star in Hulu's The Kardashians, which debuted in April 2022. The show followed her through the final months of her pregnancy with her son, which wasn't nearly as private as the first time she was with child. Us confirmed in August 2021 that the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum was expecting baby No. 2 with the "Goosebumps" performer, and she debuted her bump the following month via social media before wearing belly-hugging outfits at New York Fashion Week. Since welcoming her baby boy in February 2022, the Kylie Skin founder has been honest about the struggles of adjusting after giving birth. "I just want to say to my postpartum moms, postpartum has not been easy,” Jenner said in a March 2022 Instagram Story. “This experience for me, personally, has been a little harder than with my daughter.” The family expansion took a toll on her body and mind. “It’s OK not to be OK,” the California native added. “Once I realized that … I was putting some pressure on myself and I just keep reminding myself, ‘I made a whole human, a beautiful healthy boy’ and we have to stop putting pressure to be back, not even physically, just mentally after birth.” Scroll down to see everything Kylie has said about motherhood and how her views on parenting have evolved through the years: [podcast_block]

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Kylie Jenner Talks Motherhood: See Her Best Quotes About Having Children and Being a Young Mom

The world was shocked when news broke that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott were expecting their first child together when the Life of Kylie star was just 20 — but she was open about her desire to be a mom long before welcoming her daughter and son. "Being a young mom just means we met a little early and I get to love you a little longer,” Jenner captioned an Instagram post featuring photos of her eldest child, Stormi (born February 2018) on Mother's Day in May 2022. Jenner kept her pregnancy with Stormi under wraps. Us Weekly confirmed that she and Scott shared the happy news with their friends in September 2017 (a month after the reality star's 20th birthday), but the Kylie Cosmetics founder didn't let fans in on the news until she gave birth to her daughter. "I’m sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions,” Jenner wrote on Instagram days after welcoming Stormi. “I understand you’re used to me bringing you along on all my journeys. My pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world. … I appreciate my friends and especially my family for helping me make this special moment as private as we could.” The decision seemed to follow her plans to keep her family life private. As a teenager, Jenner thought she would raise her children away from the bright lights of Hollywood after starting her own reality TV career at age 9. "I would love to have a family and build a home with a farm in Malibu Canyon and just have my kids and throw away my phone,” she explained to ELLE U.K. in 2015. “Just really, like, live my life and not do this anymore.” However, the Kendall + Kylie designer didn't seem to have any plans to run away from Tinseltown after signing on to star in Hulu's The Kardashians, which debuted in April 2022. The show followed her through the final months of her pregnancy with her son, which wasn't nearly as private as the first time she was with child. Us confirmed in August 2021 that the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum was expecting baby No. 2 with the "Goosebumps" performer, and she debuted her bump the following month via social media before wearing belly-hugging outfits at New York Fashion Week. Since welcoming her baby boy in February 2022, the Kylie Skin founder has been honest about the struggles of adjusting after giving birth. "I just want to say to my postpartum moms, postpartum has not been easy,” Jenner said in a March 2022 Instagram Story. “This experience for me, personally, has been a little harder than with my daughter.” The family expansion took a toll on her body and mind. “It’s OK not to be OK,” the California native added. “Once I realized that … I was putting some pressure on myself and I just keep reminding myself, ‘I made a whole human, a beautiful healthy boy’ and we have to stop putting pressure to be back, not even physically, just mentally after birth.” Scroll down to see everything Kylie has said about motherhood and how her views on parenting have evolved through the years: [podcast_block]

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Logging Off

Kylie thought she'd leave social media after becoming a mom. "Once I have a kid I'm not going to be on Instagram," she told ELLE U.K. in 2015, when she had about 46 million Instagram followers. ”You know, I'll probably delete my Instagram and just… I don't know, live life." She was still using the photo sharing platform regularly in 2022, with over 336 million followers.

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The Right Role Models

Kylie is surrounded by strong women to help guide her and support her through her motherhood journey. In May 2015, the E! star penned a sweet note to sister Khloé Kardashian on Mother’s Day. "Thank you for being you & being another mother figure to me my whole life and doing the same for our nieces and nephews," she captioned the heartfelt photo collage on Instagram. “Whoever, one day, gets to have you for a mom will be the luckiest in the world."

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More Girls!

She grew up with four sisters, so it’s no wonder that Jenner wanted to have girls of her own. "When I look to the far future and decide to have kids, I need to have a million girls,” she told Teen Vogue in May 2015. "Ten years from now — in 2025 — I hope I have a kid."

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Out of the Spotlight

Although the media personality has grown up in the limelight, she hoped to lead a more secluded life in the future. “When I’m like 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens,” the young entrepreneur told Interview magazine in December 2015.

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Sooner Rather Than Later

Starting early! "I don't want to start [having] a baby when I'm 30," the influencer told Paper in 2016. "I don't believe in after 30." She gave birth to Stormi two years later.

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How Many?

“I feel like 30's too late [for a kid],” the social media stunner told dad Caitlyn Jenner in a January 2016 KUWTK episode. “Every psychic said I'm only gonna have two kids.”

After welcoming Stormi, Kylie started to want more. “I see myself having four kids,” the makeup mogul told Kim Kardashian in a January 2020 YouTube video. “I just don’t know when. I don’t have a timeline for this, and I don’t know if I’m going to have four kids tomorrow or if I’m going to have four kids in seven years.”

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Planning Ahead

The Kylie Lip Kit creator revealed in a post on her website in 2016 that she often pondered over baby names. "I keep a list in my phone of names I like for my future kids,” she said. “But they're my secrets for now!"

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Loving the Changes, Diapers and All

"I think more about the future because of her. Every time I leave and I’m stressed about leaving her, I’m like, ‘I’m doing it for you,’" she told sister Kim in a May 2018 Evening Standard interview. "Everyone says you change completely when you become a mom, but I really feel the same, just better. So I don’t know what really has completely changed my world, besides her, of course. But I feel like it’s only gotten better. You’re less selfish — and I actually enjoy changing diapers. It’s really satisfying. To make her clean again. And I don’t know, the whole thing is really… it’s like such an amazing experience."

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Teaching Self-Love

Kylie has admitted to being self-conscious and even undergoing cosmetic procedures to deal with her insecurities. However, after just a few months of motherhood, she was making reconsidering her perspective.

“Even my ears, I always felt like they stuck out too far, and [Stormi] has the same ears as me and so now I love my ears,” Jenner explained to Vogue Australia in August 2018. “It’s just having a different outlook on life so I can pass that on to her. I want to be an example for her. What kind of example would I be if she said she didn't like her ears, and then I didn’t like them either? I just want to teach her that. I’m trying to love myself more.”

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Still Sexy

"You can be sexy and still be a badass mom," she told Scott in a September 2019 Playboy interview.

She told her partner, "You remind me that motherhood and sexuality can coexist, and just because you embrace your sexuality doesn't mean you have loose morals or you're not a good mother."

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Independent Mama

“I have so many belly photos but this one has always been one of my favorites,” Kylie captioned a throwback photo in October 2019 via Instagram. “Baking my little baby storm was such a special time in my life. I actually became so much stronger and independent throughout the entire experience. Women really are amazing.”

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Mirroring Her Parents

Kris Jenner and Caitlyn inspired the way Kylie and Scott coparent. She told Harper's Bazaar in February 2020, "They were very hands-on with me, and I want the same for Stormi."

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Her Protege

"Stormi is my legacy,” Jenner told tmrw magazine in May 2021. "I'm raising her to be smart and kind and driven. Maybe she will take over Kylie Cosmetics one day? Only if she wants to."

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Second Nature

 "I hope Stormi looks at me the way that I look at my mom. Being a mom has become second nature to me," she said in a July 2021 YouTube video from her Inside Kylie Cosmetics series. 

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#Blessed

"Thank you God for my two beautiful blessings," Kylie captioned a video of her kids via Instagram in May 2022.

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Growing Family

"I feel like I have been very spoiled these last few months. [I was] able to hang out with my daughter all day and now with my new baby," Jenner shared during season 2 of The Kardashians in October 2022. "It is hard to leave them again and get back into work and obviously I run my company. Just to juggle the two of them could be difficult sometimes but my mom was the best example to look up to."

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Her Best Friend

"I learned a lot from my mom and the importance of family. It is the same for all of us — it is all about family. So, we just have a really close relationship," the beauty mogul said on The Kardashians in November 2022. "I never force my daughter to do anything. I always give her the option. She's not leaving her mommy and she gets it. She loves to come with me everywhere."

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More Mini-Mes?

During an interview with HommeGirls magazine published in April 2023, the makeup mogul hinted at the possibility of expanding her family following her split from Scott. "I don't have a number in my mind," she confessed when asked whether she wants more children. "Some women do, but I don't really have a plan. I think that whatever happens is meant to happen."

Jenner went on to describe how motherhood has "changed so much" of her life, including her idea of beauty. "It's made me love myself more," she said. "I see my features in my daughter and my son now, but you know, my daughter looks like me. I get to see my beauty in her, and it's made me love myself more for sure. Beauty is always changing for me."