Kylie Jenner is facing a third lawsuit from a former employee in 2026, with her ex-personal chef alleging that gruelling working conditions during her high-risk pregnancy led to a miscarriage.
Court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior County on Monday reveal that the chef whose nam,e has not been made public, claims she worked 11 to 12-hour shifts five days a week and was given physically demanding tasks despite informing her supervisors of her pregnancy.
She began working for Jenner, 28, in November 2024 and disclosed her pregnancy the following month, at which point she was three months along and requested reasonable accommodations.
The situation allegedly came to a head on New Year’s Eve 2024, when she says she was instructed to lift and transport heavy food items across a street and uphill without any assistance.
She became dizzy and began choking and gasping for air, requiring security personnel to intervene with water and help.
A second incident allegedly occurred around 1 February at a children’s birthday event in Palm Springs, where the chef claims she was given inadequate support and her requests for help were ignored by managers.
“Due to exhaustion and overwhelming physical strain, [she] broke down emotionally in the bathroom during the event,” the documents state.
That evening she experienced severe physical exhaustion, and the following morning she began bleeding heavily. She went to hospital, where she was told there was no detectable heartbeat and that she had lost her baby.
Days after informing her supervisors of the miscarriage, she claims she was falsely accused of leaving the kitchen and refrigerator in disarray after the Palm Springs event.
When she later experienced more intense hemorrhaging and developed severe depression, she alleges a supervisor told her: “Stop it, just stop it. You are upsetting Kylie. You are making her depressed.”
The chef is seeking unspecified damages and alleges pregnancy discrimination, harassment, misclassification as an independent contractor, failure to pay appropriate wages, and wrongful termination.
Representatives for both Jenner and the chef did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
This is the third employment lawsuit Jenner has faced this year.
In April, former housekeeper Angelica Vasquez sued her for wrongful termination, claiming she had faced discrimination based on her Salvadoran heritage and Catholic faith and had developed symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the working environment.
Later that same month, another former housekeeper, Juana Delgado Soto, filed a similar suit, alleging mistreatment from other staff and claiming that when she sought Jenner’s help directly, she was threatened with dismissal and told never to contact her again.
2026-06-26 08:02:00
