It's easy to dismiss Jenner as just another reality TV star who is famous for being famous, but she consistently asserts the fact that she is extremely serious about modeling and her future in the industry. "This is a career — I want this to last for a long time," she told Vogue. "I want this to be like a Cindy Crawford thing: I want it to last until I am her age," she went on.
If you ask Crawford, Jenner has exactly what it takes to do just that. "She's not giving her power away," Crawford said to Vogue about Jenner's staying power. "She's already light-years ahead of where I was at her age."
In fact, Jenner was so set on making sure she was successful based on her talent instead of her lineage that she refused to let any members of her family attend her first fashion show. "I wanted the attention to be on me for five seconds rather than my family," she explained to Allure on her decision to keep her family away from her first show. If you ask anyone who's hired her thus far, it seems like her talent is all they care about. "When we first saw Kendall, we wanted to book her on her merit," Marc Jacobs himself said to Vogue about choosing Jenner to walk his runway. "Not on the fact that she was a Kardashian."
