Despite building an empire on revealing everything, the Kardashian-Jenner family have maintained a strange commitment to denying cosmetic surgery, treating it like a mere urban legend.
For years, they’ve been the blueprint for enhanced beauty while swearing blind that what we’re seeing is “just puberty”, “weight loss” or, my personal favourite, “contour”.
Kendall Jenner was always positioned as the exception. The “natural” one. The horse-loving, minimal make-up girl, who stood next to sisters with inflated buttocks and faces that seemed to change between seasons.
She was framed as the anti-glam family member, so much so that the internet eventually labelled her a pick-me. And honestly, she leaned into it.
Which is why her latest denial has people rolling their eyes into another dimension.
On an episode of “In Your Dreams with Owen Thiele,” the 30-year-old model addressed long-running cosmetic surgery rumours.
“I’m not going to sit here and convince anyone that I haven’t had work,” she said, before insisting she’s never had plastic surgery on her face. According to Kendall, it’s been “two rounds of baby Botox”, and that’s it.
Girl, bye.
When Thiele straight-up called her out for lying, Jenner l doubled down, swearing on God that she’s only ever had minimal Botox. And sure, we’re all meant to “baby” believe that. Because apparently lips just plump themselves, noses subtly refine overnight, and cheekbones rearrange while you’re taking a nap.
What’s frustrating isn’t the work itself. It’s the denial.
This family has a long history of rewriting reality. Kim Kardashian once blamed her dramatic body changes on weight gain and corsets before later admitting to Botox (but still denying certain procedures).
Kylie Jenner famously claimed her lip transformation was just overlining with liner, only to later confirm she’d had fillers after years of insisting otherwise. Khloé Kardashian denied facial work for years, until eventually acknowledging cosmetic procedures following relentless public scrutiny.
So why keep lying? Why pretend enhancement doesn’t exist when your entire brand profits from impossible beauty standards?
The message it sends is dangerous. Young people grow up thinking their bodies are meant to “snap back”, lips are meant to grow, and faces are meant to freeze with age. Scroll through social media, and you’ll find people who can’t frown, cry or age naturally – yet still swear they’ve done nothing.
For those already struggling with body image, this gaslighting hits hard. It reinforces the idea that there’s something wrong with you for not looking like them, when in reality, you’re just not surgically enhanced.
Cosmetic surgery isn’t the issue. The dishonesty is. And until the reality TV family learn that transparency matters more than pretending to be naturally perfect, people will keep calling it out, baby Botox or not.
