Kylie Jenner faces a third lawsuit from a former employee in 2026, with her former personal chef alleging that harsh working conditions during her high-risk pregnancy caused her to miscarry.
Court documents filed Monday in Superior Los Angeles County reveal that the chef, whose name has not been made public, claims she worked 11- to 12-hour shifts five days a week and was assigned physically demanding tasks despite informing her supervisors of her pregnancy.
She began working for Jenner, 28, in November 2024 and revealed her pregnancy the following month, at which point she was three months old and requested reasonable accommodations.
The situation allegedly came to a head on New Year’s Eve 2024, when he says he was ordered to lift and carry heavy food across a street and up a hill without any assistance.
He became dizzy and began to choke and gasp, so security personnel had to intervene with water and help.
A second incident allegedly occurred around February 1 at a children’s birthday event in Palm Springs, where the chef claims she did not receive adequate support and that managers ignored her requests for help.
“Due to exhaustion and overwhelming physical effort, [she] “broke down emotionally in the bathroom during the event,” the documents state.
That night he experienced severe physical exhaustion and the next morning he began to bleed profusely. She went to the hospital, where she was told there was no detectable heartbeat and that she had lost her baby.
Days after telling her supervisors about 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 heavier bleeding and developed severe depression, she alleges that a supervisor told her, “Stop it, just stop it. You’re upsetting Kylie. You’re making her depressed.”
The chef seeks unspecified damages and alleges pregnancy discrimination, harassment, misclassification as an independent contractor, failure to pay adequate 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 Angélica Vásquez sued her for wrongful termination, alleging that she had faced discrimination because of her Salvadoran ancestry and Catholic faith and that she had developed symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the work environment.
Later that same month, another former housekeeper, Juana Delgado Soto, filed a similar lawsuit, alleging mistreatment by other employees and claiming that when she sought help from Jenner directly, she was threatened with termination and told to never contact her again.
