Kylie Jenner, Khloé Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian have an honest conversation about the family comments that lead to their cosmetic procedures

Thursday’s episode of “The Kardashians” was off to the races in the first few minutes with Kylie, Khloé and Kourtney talking frankly about the “beauty standards” they’re setting and how online bullying and mean family comments lead to them getting a variety of procedures from facial fillers, nose jobs, and more.
When the trailer for season 3 dropped, there was a scene where we see Kylie telling her sisters that she wanted to have a bigger conversation over the “beauty standards” they’re setting for impressionable girls who follow them. That exact clip wasn’t included in the final episode, but they have a frank conversation about how their words and actions affected each other, and could affect their kids.
“I always remember being the most confident kid in the room,” Kylie says. “I always loved myself — I still love myself — and one of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I was this insecure child and I got so much surgery to change my whole face, which is false, I’ve only gotten fillers.”
She adds in her confessional, “I feel like I don’t want that to be a part of my story.”
To her sisters, she says, “I just think we have a huge influence. And what are we doing with our power? I think I see so many young girls on the internet now fully editing. And I went through that stage too but I’m in a better place. And other people can instill insecurities in you.”
The Kylie lip kit founder, who has been accused over the years of photoshopping her Instagram pictures, then called out her sisters for giving her a complex about her ears.
“You don’t realize how you guys always talked about my ears?” she says, to which the Good American founder tries to brush it off as saying she loved Kylie’s ears
“But I didn’t receive it like that,” Kylie shoots back “I received it like everyone was making fun of my ears, calling them dopey. Like that f**ked me up.”
She tells her sisters she “never thought about my ears” until those mean jokes and says when on the red carpet she “never wore an updo” for five years.
“Then I had Stormi, and she has my ears, and it made me realize how I love them,” she revealed. “If I'm insecure about my ears, and I think my daughter is the most beautiful thing ever… now I wear updo to every carpet.”
Khloé also shares her story and how social media bullying affected her. “I was chubby and in a skintight bodycon dress. You couldn't tell me otherwise,” she told her sisters. “Society gave me insecurities.”
This isn’t the first time the “Revenge Body” star has talked about how social media bullied her. On Instagram she posted about her body transformation, writing in the carousel, “‘Khloé is the fat sister,’ ‘Khloé is the ugly sister,’ ‘Her dad must not be her real dad because she looks so different,’ ‘The only way she could have lost that weight must have been from surgery.’ Should I go on?” she wrote.
Now in the episode, she said that for some people she is still, “Not good enough. Still there are people constantly bullying you. You have to do things for yourself.”
“Then when I started changing my look — you get better makeup, you do fillers, you do whatever, I had a nose job — and there’s still people constantly bullying you,” she says, admitting that her mother Kris Jenner had a hand in her insecurities.
“Mom talked about my nose all the time.”
If you’ve been a longtime fan of “The Kardashians” and “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” there have been so many moments where the sisters only compliment each other when they view the other as skinny or thin. The sisters have been known to sell products like “flat tummy teas,” “waist training” corsets, and Kimberly still sells body shapewear. In fact, their brother Rob Kardashian’s weight gain became a major plot point of “KUWTK,” where his family was constantly commenting on his body and size, and was one of the reasons why he stepped back from filming and hasn’t returned to the shows since.
To that point, Kourtney says in the conversation, “We do live in a world that is obsessed with perfection. I think my mom always had us dressing alike and being polished and hair done, and I think I’m just really conscious with my own kids about giving them the freedom to express themselves and not put so much pressure on perfectionism.”