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    Is Kylie Jenner a Horatio Alger story for our time?

    by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency Mar 08, 2019 3 minutes

    What does it mean to be a "self-made" person of great wealth?

    It's a question that cropped up in many minds this week when Forbes magazine proclaimed cosmetics tycoon Kylie Jenner to be the world's youngest "self-made" billionaire at 21.

    Self-made? Like starting a company in the garage at night after working a fulltime job and tapping out all of your credit cards to build it? That's not how Kylie Cosmetics launched.

    Jenner is a member of the storied Kardashian-Jenner

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