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"First, for the record: There is nothing wrong with Kendall Jenner&amp;#39;s eyebrows. In their natural state they&amp;#39;re perfect, as dark and straight and well suited to her face as the thick head of almost-black hair that she (along with her four raven-haired sisters) inherited from her mother, Kris Jenner. But that hasn&amp;#39;t stopped a series of makeup artists\u2014under the direction of various designers, stylists, and magazine editors\u2014from repeatedly dyeing them so blonde they&amp;#39;re practically transparent. &amp;quot;I actually had them bleached today,&amp;quot; she says on the evening of her Teen Vogue interview, which takes place over cheeseburgers at Cafe Cluny in New York City. &amp;quot;This is the sixth time since February! I might have to start saying no at some point, because I&amp;#39;m getting worried they&amp;#39;re going to fall out!&amp;quot;\n\n Such is the life of a working model. Ever since the 18-year-old made her fashion week debut in February, walking in Marc Jacobs&amp;#39;s fall 2014 show (with, yes, bleached brows) and starring in a first-of-its-kind Instagram portfolio for vogue.com, Kendall has become one of fashion&amp;#39;s most in-demand new talents. She&amp;#39;s also one of its most high-profile\u2014although, of course, her fame predates her runway success: As a member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, Kendall has been in the public eye for the better part of a decade.\n\n Her celebrity has been a boon to her in general, but it&amp;#39;s unlikely to have helped much in her transition to the serious high-fashion gigs that, she says, have long been her dream. Fame is useful to a model when modeling is the thing she&amp;#39;s famous for\u2014just ask Gisele B\u00FCndchen, whom Kendall says she&amp;#39;s idolized since childhood\u2014but for an aspirant, like Kendall was until very recently, it isn&amp;#39;t necessarily an asset. (This somewhat explains why 20-plus cycles of America&amp;#39;s Next Top Model have yielded precisely zero top models.)\n\n A lesser-known designer might be afraid, for example, that someone like Kendall could steal her show; even an established name might worry that sending her down the runway amid a parade of relatively anonymous faces would lead to her pulling focus. As Kendall explains, &amp;quot;People didn&amp;#39;t want to take a chance on me, I think because I was sort of known. They were a little bit on the fence about it. Some people might think that what I&amp;#39;ve done before made it easier for me to get jobs, but it was actually a disadvantage. I had to work even harder.&amp;quot;\n\n But there was no discouraging this California girl. &amp;quot;As a kid,&amp;quot; she says, &amp;quot;I always looked up to supermodels, thinking about how amazing they are. I always wanted to be in photos.&amp;quot; Accordingly, she signed her first contract when she was 14. &amp;quot;It was mostly little things, but they were fun,&amp;quot; Kendall says. &amp;quot;I wanted to get started, but I was young, and I wanted to do young things.&amp;quot; In retrospect, she realized, &amp;quot;I had to grow into myself. I couldn&amp;#39;t really go out there as a 15-year-old. I mean, I know that some girls do, but I couldn&amp;#39;t. I&amp;#39;d grown up in the spotlight, and I needed to be a kid for a minute.&amp;quot;\n\n To that end, Kendall focused most of her energy on more typical teen pursuits, like cheerleading, snowboarding, and horseback riding. (She had three horses, she reports. Jumper competitions &amp;quot;were my big thing for a while.&amp;quot;) It was only when she turned 17 that she decided to kick her career into high gear. &amp;quot;I was like, &amp;#39;All right, I&amp;#39;m going to start taking this seriously.&amp;#39;&amp;quot; She switched agencies and began plotting a strategy that involved being very selective about potential gigs. &amp;quot;I felt like I should pick specific designers that I wanted to go for so I could make a good first impression\u2014or more like a fifth impression,&amp;quot; Kendall says, laughing. &amp;quot;But it&amp;#39;s my first impression on this world.&amp;quot;\n\n To read the rest of Kendall&amp;#39;s cover interview, pick up our September issue on newsstands August 19. And to have Teen Vogue delivered every month, subscribe here! \n\n In the meantime, check out our exclusive behind-the-scenes videos from Kendall&amp;#39;s cover shoot:"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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