Jenner gets backlash over birthday party
As regular Californians contemplate Thanksgiving with no extended family and friends because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Kendall Jenner joined her sister, Kim Kardashian, in thinking such public health considerations don’t apply to rich celebrities like them when they want to celebrate their birthdays as lavishly as possible.
A week after Kardashian faced public scorn for flying her family and friends to Tahiti for her 40th birthday, Jenner hosted a giant Halloween-themed 25th birthday bash in West Hollywood Saturday night, according to images of the party that leaked on social media.
Costumed as Pamela Anderson in the film “Barb Wire,” the model and reality TV star gathered about 100 guests, including sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, brother-in-law Kanye West, and pals Justin Bieber, Hailey Baldwin, Paris Hilton and The Weeknd.
Another guest, Jaden Smith, faced criticism for his dark-humor attempt to acknowledge the public health crisis by dressing up as a COVID-19 patient, with an oxygen mask across his face.
The party took place at Harriet’s Rooftop, a cocktail lounge atop 1 Hotel in West Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight reported.
The lounge is an indooroutdoor space that required guests to wear masks for its special “Full Moon Party” it hosted Thursday, Friday and Sunday nights, its Instagram account showed. But none of Jenner’s guests were seen wearing masks in photos posted to social media — photos she explicitly didn’t want posted to social media. To keep her no-mask and no- social- distancing party hush-hush, “no social media” signs were posted at the lounge, photos reveal.
After Jenner was slammed, her mother, Kris Jenner, said her family is “really responsible and we make sure that everyone in our family and our closest friends are tested religiously” for the coronavirus.
On SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live,” the backlash over her daughter throwing a star-studded party in the midst of a global pandemic came up, and Jenner said, “We’re dealing with lots of people that have different opinions, and all we can do is live our lives the best way we know how and be responsible and do the right thing.”