Kylie Jenner is facing a third workplace lawsuit in less than three months, this time from a former private chef who claims the demands of working a Palm Springs birthday party during a high-risk pregnancy led to her miscarriage.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the complaint was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The unnamed chef alleges she regularly worked 11- to 12-hour shifts, five days a week, while performing physically demanding tasks after telling supervisors she was pregnant and needed accommodations.
The former employee claims she began working for Jenner around Thanksgiving 2024 and told supervisors in early December that she was three months pregnant and needed “reasonable accommodations to protect her health and her pregnancy.” Instead, she alleges the response was hostile. The complaint claims that on New Year’s Eve, she was ordered to carry heavy food across the street and uphill without help, causing her to become dizzy and struggle to breathe.
The lawsuit says the situation worsened around February 1, 2025, when the chef, then five months pregnant, was assigned to a large birthday event for Jenner’s child in Palm Springs. The chef claims she asked for help but was ignored. “Due to exhaustion and overwhelming physical strain, [she] broke down emotionally in the bathroom during the event,” the complaint states, according to The U.S. Sun.
The next morning, the chef allegedly woke up bleeding heavily and went to the emergency room, where she says she was told no heartbeat was detected. The complaint also claims she later collapsed in her bathroom after another severe hemorrhaging episode. After the miscarriage, she says she suffered depression and emotional distress, but alleges a supervisor reprimanded her by saying, “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, failure to accommodate, unpaid wages, misclassification as an independent contractor, late pay and wrongful termination. Her attorney, Della Shaker, told the Times, “Celebrity status does not exempt anyone from California’s employment laws.” Jenner’s representative did not immediately respond to the outlet’s request for comment.
The case adds to mounting legal scrutiny over Jenner’s household operation. In April, former housekeeper Angelica Hernandez Vasquez sued Jenner, Kylie Jenner Inc., Tri Star Services and La Maison Family Services, alleging she endured “severe and pervasive harassment” while working at Jenner’s homes. Vasquez, who is Salvadoran and Catholic, claimed she was mocked over her national origin, religion, accent and immigration status, assigned the worst tasks and suffered anxiety and PTSD-like symptoms.
Days later, another former housekeeper, Juana Delgado Soto, filed a separate lawsuit alleging racial discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wage violations. According to ABC7, Soto claimed a supervisor mocked her English, reduced her pay from $41.66 to $35 an hour and changed her schedule after complaints. The Times also reported Soto alleged she slipped Jenner a letter pleading for help before being told not to look at or interact with Jenner.
The lawsuits arrive as Jenner remains one of the most powerful names in beauty and reality TV. In 2019, Coty announced it would acquire 51% of Jenner’s beauty business for $600 million, valuing the company at $1.2 billion.
The Kardashian-Jenner family has faced similar household labor scrutiny before. In 2021, Kim Kardashian was sued by seven former gardeners and maintenance workers who alleged unpaid overtime, missed breaks and wage violations at her Hidden Hills home, according to The Guardian. That case reportedly reached an agreement in 2023, with terms kept private.
