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5:45 am - 02/17/2012

Kendall Jenner Considering Modeling Over College


Her sisters might be the queens of reality TV, but Kendall Jenner is looking to carve her own path in life — through modeling.

“I’m not really thinking about college right now,” Jenner, 16, told PEOPLE Monday while trying on dresses at Rent the Runway‘s Pop-up Shop at West Hollywood’s Andaz Hotel. “If my career, like, blows up and gets really big, [modeling] is what I would do.”

Though we’ve seen Kim Kardashian‘s younger sis struggle with her nerves while walking the runway on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Jenner says those initial jitters are all in the past.

“I want to [walk the runway] again and again,” she said. “It was so much fun, like the adrenaline and everything was really fun.”

The budding fashionista, who calls her own style “edgy [and] girly, but colorful,” shared some of her own style tips and influences.

“I like to add color… and I think that heels make the outfit look 10 times better,” said Jenner, who often “raids” sister Kourtney‘s closet. “I love Hervé Léger dresses just because I love bandage dresses … [and] I love jumpers.”

As for showing skin both on and off the runway, the teen believes less is more.

“I think if you look cute but like, classy, even though you are showing skin, I think that’s fine,” she said. “I wouldn’t like, go crazy. I am not that kind of a person.”

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wigglybob 17th-Feb-2012 12:15 pm (UTC)
I hate it when people have the money to go to college but decide not to go. Is there even promise in her modelling career?
wigglybob 17th-Feb-2012 12:24 pm (UTC)
True.
flawlessa 17th-Feb-2012 12:54 pm (UTC)
ia
beatlesluv 17th-Feb-2012 04:40 pm (UTC)
MTE. Srsly, and you get to discover yourself, find out what you like BEFORE you waste money ::cough:: like I did
_xxtom 17th-Feb-2012 12:18 pm (UTC)
lol who cares what people decide to do with their lives. College isn't for everyone.
baileysmama01 17th-Feb-2012 12:49 pm (UTC)
I completely understand your point. However, if I looked like her and had her *connections* to the industry I too would forfeit college. But yes, I totally see where you are coming from. Kortney AND Rob both went to college tho because thats what their father wanted for them. :)
sweetyb 17th-Feb-2012 02:05 pm (UTC)
At least she isn't taking a seat from someone who actually wants/deserves to be there.
imsodeep 17th-Feb-2012 06:10 pm (UTC)
To me the point of going to college was to make money in the future. If I already had a boat load of cash and no sign of poverty to come in the future fuck no I wouldn't have gone either.

Then again I don't give a crap about "just learning to learn." I learn to make dolla bills.
redlipped 17th-Feb-2012 06:43 pm (UTC)
Why? A degree doesn't get you far these days unless its an area that REQUIRES a degree (i.e. nursing, law, medicine, engineering, etc.) You can learn the same stuff from books and on the internet TBH. Networking and internships are what get you jobs these days.
kimberwyn 18th-Feb-2012 03:25 am (UTC)
Lol that money probably isn't going to disappear. Plenty of people wait a couple of years before starting college, I did it myself.
typhlogirl 17th-Feb-2012 12:16 pm (UTC)
i should not be feeling jealous of a 16 yo but dem legs
kanonot 17th-Feb-2012 02:57 pm (UTC)
oh piedmon stop, you're legs and arms are amazing.
firefoxyk 17th-Feb-2012 12:19 pm (UTC)
she's pretty..at least prettier than her sister Kylie or whatever her name is
but to choose modeling over college - stupid decision
i mean she'll still have her legs and face in a couple of years

Edited at 2012-02-17 12:21 pm (UTC)
kachna_junior 17th-Feb-2012 12:37 pm (UTC)
well models retire at pretty young age, so if she wants to do it and be successful in it, it is the right time I guess, that's how the bussines runs...

but I also don't agree with her decision... I don't really consider modleing as a good career... plus it isn't a long term one so you gotta be able to do something else besides looking pretty
emofordino 17th-Feb-2012 02:03 pm (UTC)
idk, ia that college is important and that if you have the resources, you definitely should. but, at the same time, unless you're like a supermodel like gisele or heidi klum or something, the retirement age is like, 25, which isn't really too late to go back to school imo. so i'm torn.
baileysmama01 17th-Feb-2012 12:51 pm (UTC)
Aw, Kylie is pretty too. You can tell from episodes (Yes, their show is my guilty pleasure haha.) that Kylie takes after Khloe w/her sarcastic sense of humor. All the sisters are beautiful in their own way imo :)
leatherandjeans 17th-Feb-2012 02:06 pm (UTC)
From a purely monetary point of view, it's kind of not a stupid decision at all. Models have very short careers, so she'd need to be getting into it now, while she's still young enough. She can have the experience of modelling and make her cash while she can (assuming she's successful, which might be a leap in itself), and then go to college afterwards. It's not like college is going anywhere.
speedychi 17th-Feb-2012 03:37 pm (UTC)
yeah, kylies face... :/
imsodeep 17th-Feb-2012 06:12 pm (UTC)
lol college will still be there in a couple years too.
redlipped 17th-Feb-2012 06:45 pm (UTC)
I think Kylie is much prettier.
hereiam12 17th-Feb-2012 08:25 pm (UTC)
i think kylie used to be the prettier/cuter one, her face isn't transitioning well thru puberty
awh 17th-Feb-2012 12:20 pm (UTC)
She's gorgeous. Those legs. She should really go to college, though.
honeebs 17th-Feb-2012 12:22 pm (UTC)
Well there's like, fun involved so yeah have some fun gurl.
toaerythinness 17th-Feb-2012 12:23 pm (UTC)
Her parents should pay for a kid who wants to go to college to go to make up for her not going. Surely she's got some kind of college fund...although, let's face it: these are the Kardashians, they probably have a savings account that pays for their first sex tape instead.
wigglybob 17th-Feb-2012 12:25 pm (UTC)
lol irl. The two youngest girls don't seem that bad tho.
baileysmama01 17th-Feb-2012 12:57 pm (UTC)
iawtc. Rob went to college too and graduated after passing up modeling. (Idk if Kort graduated?) It doesn't matter tho like you said. Rob is still doin his thing and placed 2nd on DWTS. Plus, they have separate fathers. Rob went and graduated because that was his fathers wish. Plus, like you said, they are millionaires already!
anolinde 17th-Feb-2012 03:32 pm (UTC)
Lol, what? Why would they have to make up for her not going? Who's to say that she's not going to go at all?
lickety_split 17th-Feb-2012 06:03 pm (UTC)
Her parents should pay for a kid who wants to go to college to go to make up for her not going

.... Why?
_xxtom 17th-Feb-2012 12:26 pm (UTC)
lol @ people telling her to wait. This is the modelling industry. They think 25 is old. So, yes model now and then go to school after if you want. Why go to college if you don't want to? Just a waste of time, money and resources. You can get an education whenever, especially if you have the money like her family does. The modelling industry doesn't work the same way. You can't put it off and get old as fuck.
baloola 17th-Feb-2012 12:29 pm (UTC)
haha totally. and seriously, it's not always the best decision to go to college right away just because you can if you don't have a purpose or a job-related reason.
roses_ce_soir 17th-Feb-2012 12:32 pm (UTC)
IA!
vovarova 17th-Feb-2012 12:38 pm (UTC)
mfte
thefreshchuff 17th-Feb-2012 12:46 pm (UTC)
I agree. Especially with not going to college if you're not ready/don't want to. Not only is modeling a career with an expiration date, in most cases, but no one wants you in the classroom wasting everyone's time if you don't want to be there, taking the seat of someone who really wants it.
tammyinlalaland 17th-Feb-2012 12:49 pm (UTC)
but she is not model quality... she will never be anything more than stunt casting in a show, if that.

redlipped 17th-Feb-2012 06:47 pm (UTC)
Except she kinda is. I'll be loling when she starts working as a VS Angel.
kimberwyn 18th-Feb-2012 03:31 am (UTC)
she may not be high fashion, but she's fine for commercial and even glamour/swimsuit modeling, and that's the stuff the pays anyways.
robinsparkle 17th-Feb-2012 12:57 pm (UTC)
Right? If I had unlimited funds, I'd do whatever my heart desired before I went to college, if I even went at all.
flawlessa 17th-Feb-2012 12:58 pm (UTC)
exactly
leatherandjeans 17th-Feb-2012 02:07 pm (UTC)
Mte
chantonii 17th-Feb-2012 03:26 pm (UTC)
True. She should milk her youth and family's popularity while she can.
narcissistbitch 17th-Feb-2012 06:05 pm (UTC)
yep
house_tanner 17th-Feb-2012 07:38 pm (UTC)
If I was dumb as a mule but twice as hot, I wouldn't go to college either.
kimberwyn 18th-Feb-2012 03:30 am (UTC)
Couldn't agree more. And it always amazes me when ppl say "lolz well at LEAST they (rob and kourtney) went to college!!1" as if it makes them better people or something. wtf?
aphrodite5239 17th-Feb-2012 12:34 pm (UTC)
Jealous of her legs tbh
and yeah milk your career for all its worth
wits 17th-Feb-2012 12:35 pm (UTC)
i am here cramming for the two midterms i have on 3 hours of sleep.

so yeah, if i looked like her i'd probably skip college and model as well
rogue 17th-Feb-2012 03:43 pm (UTC)
this is all i came into this post to say

i love college and i love my life to death, but if i was born into mega millions i would not go to college either. i'd go straight to work doing what i love to do.
hereiam12 17th-Feb-2012 08:28 pm (UTC)
i agree except you meet so many of your peers and make friends for life but with her connections she can make as many anyway. it's not like someone from the suburbs who desides not to go to college and then won't meet enough new people
vovarova 17th-Feb-2012 12:41 pm (UTC)
unbelievably jealous of her looks/legs/life
setembro 17th-Feb-2012 12:47 pm (UTC)
So much money to pay for college and she wants to model.
emofordino 17th-Feb-2012 02:55 pm (UTC)
modeling has a very short shelf life though. like, retirement by your mid-20s early. on antm that one cycle where melrose was on it, I'm pretty sure she was like 24 at the time and the judges were like "she's pretty but she's too old." kendall could likely go back to school at that age with no problems. it's not like she was going to have a typical college experience anyway, when she comes from a famous family that a ton of people follow in the news.
69love_songs 17th-Feb-2012 12:47 pm (UTC)
Tbh i don't think she's very model like. Go to college instead. Or get a real job.
setembro 17th-Feb-2012 12:49 pm (UTC)
Yeah, that's what i think. She's very average.
69love_songs 17th-Feb-2012 01:17 pm (UTC)
Well average tacky reality tv star! Lol. She's not stunningly beautiful, or striking. Also, her family are freaks. Use your brain, girl!
redlipped 17th-Feb-2012 06:49 pm (UTC)
LOL why would she "get a real job"?? A "real job" pays 100k at the very, very best. Everyone in her family is already a millionaire. Lol people and their warped ideas about what a "job" is.
tammyinlalaland 17th-Feb-2012 12:47 pm (UTC)
Oh how I long for the days of legit supermodels, not faux-celebs thinking wearing clothes is fun.

Are we sure she can get into college?
filmorejive 17th-Feb-2012 01:20 pm (UTC)
lol mte
when_itsizzles 17th-Feb-2012 02:20 pm (UTC)
drives me fucking nuts.
yehyijun 17th-Feb-2012 03:17 pm (UTC)
I'm sure she can. The amount of people whose IQs are lower than Kim's that are in a legit higher learning institution is astounding. Makes you wonder how they got in there in the first place.
rogue 17th-Feb-2012 03:44 pm (UTC)
$$$$
all of the celebrities i'm aware of who went to college went to harvard, yale, etc. and they are not that smart. they just have a lot of money or were born into very very wealthy families.
tammyinlalaland 17th-Feb-2012 03:50 pm (UTC)
But Kim was raised in part by her father that demanded education and hardwork. These young ones not so much
tundrabeast 17th-Feb-2012 03:41 pm (UTC)
A++
alchimie_amour 17th-Feb-2012 04:46 pm (UTC)
Mama Kris will buy her a seat at UC Barstow like Gwyenth's family did
house_tanner 17th-Feb-2012 07:39 pm (UTC)
That's what I was thinking. If you are dumb as sin.. and a Kardashian.. you're probably not going to college.
ugly_jacket 17th-Feb-2012 12:48 pm (UTC)
i'm gonna say that is prob the right choice for her
etoile_amore 17th-Feb-2012 12:52 pm (UTC)
mmk
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