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Kendall Jenner on How Growing Up in the Spotlight Was a “Little” Like Hannah Montana
Kendall Jenner is getting candid about what her life was like growing up in the spotlight, as well as the challenges of being a teen model.
During a recent appearance on the Anything Goes podcast, the supermodel and media personality compared growing up in the public eye on Keeping Up With the Kardashians to the life of Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus’ character on the hit Disney Channel show.
“It’s a little Hannah Montana-y in a way,” Jenner told host Emma Chamberlain. “[But] I didn’t have a disguise, or I didn’t have a physical shift.”
Hannah Montana, which ran from 2006 to 2011 for four seasons, followed Miley Stewart’s (Cyrus) adventures as a typical teenager who also has a secret identity as a famous pop star, Hannah Montana.
“We went to school. We went to school as long as we could,” she continued. “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.”
Jenner noted that while her life wasn’t “always easy,” being on camera from a young age, “it did feel kind of normal,” adding, “We lived as much of a normal life as, I think, was possible and I’m so grateful for that.”
When Keeping Up with the Kardashians first premiered in 2007, launching her family to fame, Jenner was only 10 years old. She also recalled she and her younger sister Kylie Jenner having to do “very adult things at a really young age.” However, she admitted she’s “really grateful” overall because “I think it could have been a lot worse.”
A few years later, in her early teens, Kendall began her modeling career. She acknowledged to Chamberlain that she’s been “extremely fortunate” in the industry and mostly had a “beautiful experience,” but confessed to hitting some speed bumps along the way.
“I’m not gonna sit here and say that I’ve had the toughest journey. I think I’ve been extremely fortunate,” Kendall said. “But I also have had my own set of challenges, whether it’s [being] overworked or not getting a job that I would’ve really loved to get.”
The Kardashians star added that sometimes life was “very lonely” traveling the world as a teen for work and being away from family and friends for long periods.
“I’ve had really dark nights where I’ve been in random cities and just hysterically crying myself to sleep because I haven’t been home in three months and I’ve been pretty much alone the entire time,” Kendall said. “There’s been a lot of definite moments where I’m like, ‘What is going on, is this all worth it?’”
Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) is facing yet another lawsuit over allegations of unlicensed sampling — only this time, it’s centered on a video clip of the rapper’s infamous 2013 fight with paparazzi.
In a case filed Wednesday (July 15) in Los Angeles federal court, the celebrity news agency Bauer-Griffin claims that Ye, French Montana (Karim Kharbouch) and others used audio from the headline-grabbing incident in “Where They At,” released in 2024 off French’s Mac & Cheese 5.
The May 2013 video, which also features a pregnant Kim Kardashian, shows West charging at a photographer outside a Los Angeles restaurant and shouting “don’t take no photos” and a string of profanities: “All of you m*therf*ckers stop it, man!”
The clip appears prominently in the intro to Montana’s song — a use that the lawsuit calls “blatant and willful” copyright infringement.
“Given Mr. Ye’s history of numerous confrontations with paparazzi, the video was highly newsworthy,” the agency’s lawyers write in legal documents obtained and first reported by Billboard. “Listeners immediately recognized the audio sample that begins the infringing record as being copied from the video.”
Ye has been sued over a dozen times for allegedly using unlicensed samples and interpolations in his music, including a high-profile battle with Donna Summer. In May, he lost a jury trial over using an uncleared sample in an early version of the Grammy-winning “Hurricane” from Donda. He had testified at trial that he’s “very generous” about giving credit and compensation when it’s due, but that “a lot of people try to take advantage of me.”
In Wednesday’s complaint, Bauer-Griffin says the creators of “Where They At” showed no such respect to its rights in the video of the paparazzi incident, using it despite being well aware that sound recordings must be licensed when any amount is directly sampled into a song.
“In the music industry, copyrights are prevalent and well understood,” lawyers for the agency write. “Every defendant knew that they needed to have but did not have permission to use the audio sample.”
Reps for both stars did not immediately return requests for comment. The lawsuit also names as defendants producers Dem Jointz (Dwayne Abernathy Jr.) and BoogzDaBeast (Jahmal Gwin), as well Gamma, the label that released the song, and its distribution unit Vydia.
The confrontation at issue in Wednesday’s lawsuit was one of two high-profile scuffles with paparazzi that year for the rapper, who was then still known as Kanye West. Two months later, he clashed with photographer Daniel Ramos outside of LAX, resulting in a civil assault lawsuit that the star eventually settled two years later on the eve of trial.
As many celebrities have learned over the years, simply appearing in a photo or video does not give someone any legal rights to it. Ownership of such material is always retained by the creator — an inconvenient fact that has sparked lawsuits against Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa.
It’s unclear who filmed the May 2013 incident, which happened outside a Beverly Hills restaurant minutes after the star had also been filmed accidentally banging his head into a signpost while trying to avoid other photographers. But the rights to the footage have been owned by Bauer-Griffin from the beginning: When TMZ first posted it at the time, it came with a watermark crediting the agency.
“The infringing record has been widely distributed on various streaming platforms, in flagrant violation of plaintiff’s exclusive rights under copyright laws,” Bauer-Griffin’s attorneys write. “Plaintiff brings these claims to vindicate those rights.”
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