Kylie Jenner is facing a third lawsuit from a former employee in 2026, with her ex-private chef alleging that grueling working conditions during her high-risk pregnancy led to a miscarriage. The complaint, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims the woman routinely worked 11- to 12-hour shifts, five days a week, and was assigned physically demanding tasks despite alerting supervisors to her pregnancy.
The former chef says she began working for Jenner around Thanksgiving 2024 and informed supervisors in early December that she was three months pregnant and required reasonable accommodations. According to the lawsuit, on New Year’s Eve 2024, she was directed to lift and transport heavy food items across a street and uphill without assistance, a task that left her “choking and gasping for air,” requiring security to intervene.
Around February 1, 2025, the chef, then five months pregnant, was assigned to work a birthday party for Jenner’s child in Palm Springs. She claims she received no adequate support despite the event’s scale, and her requests for help were ignored by supervisors.
“Due to exhaustion and overwhelming physical strain, [she] broke down emotionally in the bathroom during the event,” the lawsuit states. “That evening, [she] experienced extreme physical exhaustion and heaviness throughout her body”. The next morning, she woke up experiencing severe hemorrhaging and drove herself to the emergency room, where doctors informed her she had lost her unborn child.
After the miscarriage, the chef claims she suffered severe depression, and a supervisor allegedly told her, “Stop it, just stop it. You are upsetting Kylie. You are making her depressed”. She also claims she was falsely accused of leaving the kitchen in disarray following the Palm Springs event.
The chef is seeking unspecified damages and alleges pregnancy discrimination, harassment, failure to provide reasonable accommodations, wrongful termination, and wage violations. Her attorney, Della Shaker, told the Los Angeles Times: “Celebrity status does not exempt anyone from California’s employment laws. We look forward to presenting the evidence in court”.
This marks the third lawsuit filed against Jenner in recent months. In April, two former housekeepers, Angelica Hernandez Vasquez and Juana Delgado Soto, filed separate suits alleging harassment, discrimination, and retaliation during their employment. Jenner has not publicly commented on any of the lawsuits.
