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?’”

Just a day after closing the last 18 miles of the Big Hole River before its confluence with the Jefferson River to fishing, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced it was extending the fishing closure to upstream of Wise River and closing the entire Jefferson River to fishing because of low flows.

The closure on the Big Hole will run from Dickie Bridge, which is upriver from Wise River, all the way to the confluence with the Jefferson River, while the entire Jefferson River will be closed to fishing.

The rest of the Big Hole River upstream from Dickie Bridge remains under hoot-owl restrictions that close fishing from 2 p.m. to midnight each day.

FWP said Friday that flows on the Big Hole and Jefferson have reached the flow thresholds by which fishing is closed under their drought management plans. Warm water temperatures and low flows caused the restrictions and closures on Montana rivers because they threaten the health and lives of cold-water fish like trout.

The new closures go into effect at midnight Saturday; as of Friday, the Big Hole is closed to fishing from the Tony Schoonen Fishing Access Site to the river’s confluence with the Jefferson. The restrictions and closures will remain in effect until conditions improve.

Most of the major cold-water trout rivers in Montana are now under hoot-owl restrictions – from the North Fork Flathead River all the way across the state to parts of the Yellowstone River. Some closures are also in place.

Find a full list of fishing restrictions from FWP here.

HELENA — One thing is clear, regardless of what people think about former president Donald Trump: They know his return to Montana is likely to bring a lot of attention.

Trump, now again the Republican presidential nominee, will be back in the Treasure State next week, for a campaign rally Friday, Aug. 9, in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse at Montana State University in Bozeman. It will be his sixth rally in Montana, and the first since 2018.

Trump campaigned in Billings in 2016, during the Republican presidential primaries. He then traveled to the state four times in 2018 – holding events in Great Falls, Billings, Missoula and Bozeman – as Republicans sought to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. Tester is on the ballot again this year, and Trump has endorsed his GOP challenger, Gallatin County businessman Tim Sheehy.

Paul Bellamy was living in north-central Montana in 2018 and says he wasn’t able to attend any of Trump’s rallies, but he knows people who did.

“It drew a lot of people in,” he said. “They were pretty upfront about it – they thought it was a pretty good thing.”

Bellamy says he likes Trump’s business experience, and he hopes he’ll have a localized message at this event.

“I don’t think he needs to boast on his record as much as he does,” he said. “I want to hear more about what he’s going to do for Montana. I believe that a rural state like we have, we get forgotten about a lot, especially back East.”

The Trump campaign allowed people to start requesting tickets for the rally on Thursday. Joan Haubein, of Helena, says she would love to attend, but her family is dealing with some health problems at the moment. She says she wants to hear Trump talk about issues like border security and about what she calls “ridiculous” policies coming out of the federal government.

“We should be able to say, in this country, what we believe without being put down or called racist or anything else,” she said.

Haubein believes Trump’s visit will be a good thing for Montana.

“People need to speak out and they need to vote – whether they’re Democrat or Republican, we need votes,” she said.

Of course, many Montanans aren’t as supportive of Trump’s visit. MTN spoke to a number of them who didn’t want to go on-camera for this story, but who had concerns about things like the tone of the campaign.