Allora
I see that I'm very late to the party but KF is a topic that I have mused on for the better part of 5 years,with no one to discuss with except my partner.
She is so 'mysterious', she presents a certain image (to which I related to a lot of it) but it doesn't ring true and she was never transparent about basic details that it drove me nuts.
My 2 cents:
- As mentioned throughout these threads she has always presented herself as an introvert, a sensitive person, someone with a history of being bullied, yet she would film herself running around, inserting herself in conversations with strangers (always men) in low cut tops, bikinis, etc. It didn't add up.
- She was never transparent about how she made a living in Italy. She would do these Q&A types videos where she would encourage others to follow their dreams and move to Italy but never really how she could afford her lifestyle there. She eventually mentions that she taught English just like every other regular expat but this took some time to get to and there was no detail other than she thought herself better than the other tutors. Her apartments always looked fancy and lovely, but how? She was a YouTuber, struggling to get by, pitching to companies who never replied, being taken advantage of etc.
- She would run around with designer items, I remember specifically a pair of Ted loafers and I think a Chanel bag. If what she was saying was true, how does she afford such things?
- Her age! The timeline she talked of didn't add up! Her fashion sense reminds me of when I was young in the 90's with the headbands and A-line skirts etc, she seems to be my age but she has led people to believe she is 10 years younger.
- Once she started trying to create the fashion line with her sister I really started to feel like this was some aspirational s**t. Completely unrelatable, bizarre, why do all these types of people always need to end up a fashion designer?
- The no sleeping, sleeping for 3/4 hours. It's so wild to me that she would glamorise not sleeping in the way she does. If it were true, that could be enough to send someone's mental health to a dark place.
- She used to talk a lot about how healthy she ate and all of her workouts and she was very thin. Always super tanned. All the shots of her rail thin abs. I felt it bordered on some kind of eating disorder/ body dysmorphia.
- Petty but I also believe she has had a breast augmentation. Many people in Sydney/ Australia have, you get used to the look of it. Her teeth are also extremely 'perfect', they're lovely but she has had something done there too. All of that is perfectly fine but she presents this image that is trying too hard to be so far away from that, I find it disingenuous.
- I have written and commented on her posts many times over the past 5 years or so and she has never once replied. Even in the very early days when he followers all seemed to be men from India. This is in contrast to all the other Italophile and Italian expats I follow and chat with. I know that she does reply to messages and even meet up with people from IG so it's obvious that she is monitoring these messages and deciding who is worth replying to, or not. I have seen another IG Italian expat with a large following try to get in touch with her and mention that she doesn't reply. I read here that Nicki Positano experienced the same.
I tried to play one of her videos for my mum recently as she is renovating her bathroom. I realised as I was playing it, it was really embarrassing! Sexualised and weird fake voice and lip biting, giggling, weird baby voice and clenched jaw when talking to Guido. I had to turn it off as it was just too embarassing.
I get that with Kylie she is intentionally trying to sell 'la dolce vita' and a certain image and that's why she does most of these things. But it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. All the lies around her age and her financial status, once you realise she must be from a wealthy family, she is making bucketloads on Patreon, it's so alienating.
Thanks for letting me get all that out.