Jenner speaks often of change and evolution. “I feel like I am coming into my womanhood,” she tells me, “and having so many strong women around me has helped shape my sense of worth.”
Jenner, 27, is in a starkly white room with shelves full of art books and novels behind her. She’s dressed casually in a black tank, her hair pulled back, her skin dewy. She looks as if she’s just come from a hike or a trip to the dog run, the platonic ideal of how one might look lounging around the house. When she speaks, it’s with the self-awareness of someone who has spent her entire adult life in front of a camera. She often qualifies what she’s saying with how it must come off. “I probably sound so L.A.,” she says at one point. Later: “I probably sound corny.” It reads less as nervousness than as someone who is used to being observed, cutting off the observer at the pass, a reminder that she knows how others might try to fit her into a narrative. Even as she is looked at, she is looking back.
"I work really HARD on REWRITING the NARRATIVE of what it means to be FEMININE in my CHOREOGRAPHY. Femininity is STRENGTH and OWNING your SEXUALITY." PARRIS GOEBEL CHOREOGRAPHER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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