Kendall Jenner isn’t afraid to let it all out.
The reality star has been the highest-paid model in the fashion industry for the past few years in a row, but she hasn’t always been this famous.
In 2014 she walked her first high fashion runway for Marc Jacobs – dressed in a sheer nipple-free sweater that caused quite a stir.
“I remember getting a call from my agent saying that Marc and Katie [Grand, the show’s stylist] wanted to put myself in a see-through top like this and I was like, ‘I’m in. I do not mind. I’m fine with the nipples,'” Jenner, 26, told Vogue for the magazine’s “Life in Looks” video series.
“I was pretty relaxed even though my boobs were out,” she added. “It didn’t make me more nervous. I really just thought, ‘Dope, whatever they want, it’s their vision, let’s do it.’ So I felt completely at ease.”
The catwalker recalled that while she was getting walking lessons from her agency ahead of the big night, she was still “really stiff” on the catwalk – but wasn’t nervous before the show.
“I actually couldn’t believe I was there. Oddly enough, I didn’t have much nerve, and I think that was because my shoes were relatively flat — they weren’t big, high heels,” Jenner said.
But the founder of 818 Tequila was not always so self-confident; She also looked back at her first Met Gala appearance that same year, for which she wore a mermaid-style Topshop dress.
“I look at it now and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I look like a baby,’ but I felt like a woman,” she said of the look.
“I have used [sister] Kim [Kardashian]Hair and makeup guys, so… me [felt] how [I was] embracing that feminine side of me, and it’s so funny to look back on that moment now and be like, ‘Oh my god, you were such a kid back then.'”
Jenner added that she was “definitely very nervous” because at the event she only knew Kim and then-husband Kanye West, who both checked in on her throughout the night.
These days, the Met Gala is full of Kardashian-Jenners, who Kendall called “the best of all time.”
She has found her confidence as her personal style has evolved as well.
“I even look back on the first little girl we saw and how uncomfortable she was. And even the girl at the 2014 Met Gala,” she said. “And then getting into this girl that’s a lot more, ‘I’ve found myself as a woman, I’ve found myself’ … It’s cool to see.”
