A woman who once worked for Kylie Jenner as a personal chef has filed a lawsuit alleging that the grueling workload caused her miscarriage.
In court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior County earlier this week, the unidentified former employee said she regularly worked 11- to 12-hour shifts, five days a week, USA Today reported. In addition to the “excessive hours,” she claimed she was assigned “physically demanding tasks, and high-pressure events” despite telling Jenner and her supervisors of her high-risk pregnancy, which “required reasonable accommodations to protect her health.”
The chef said she first started working for Jenner in November 2024, and she alerted her managers — who are also named in the suit — that she was three months pregnant a month later. The news was met with hostility, she claimed, specifically citing an incident weeks later on New Year’s Eve the same year. That night, her supervisors instructed her to “lift and transport heavy food items across the street and uphill without assistance,” according to the lawsuit, per the Los Angeles Times.
As a result, she “became dizzy, began choking and gasping for air, and required assistance from security personnel, who intervened by providing water and aid,” she said.
Then, in February 2025 — when she was five months pregnant — she was assigned to work Jenner’s child’s birthday party in Palm Springs, during which she was forced to work without “adequate support.” She added that when she asked for help, she was ignored by her supervisors.
“Due to exhaustion and overwhelming physical strain, [she] broke down emotionally in the bathroom during the event,” the lawsuit said. “That evening, [she] experienced extreme physical exhaustion and heaviness throughout her body as a result of the prolonged and intense workload.”
The next day, the chef woke up experiencing severe and intense blood loss.
When she subsequently arrived at the hospital, she “was informed that there was no detectable heartbeat and that she had lost her unborn child.” She also suffered additional hemorrhaging after the miscarriage, and quickly fell into a depression, the lawsuit said.
Despite informing her supervisors of her situation, she was told to pull it together for her employer’s sake.
“Stop it, just stop it. You are upsetting Kylie. You are making her depressed,” a supervisor allegedly said.
In addition to pregnancy discrimination and harassment, the chef said she was also misclassified as an independent contractor, did not get paid on time or for the appropriate hours she worked and was wrongfully terminated. She is seeking an unspecified amount in damages.
Her suit marks the third filed against Jenner by former employees in recent weeks. The other two come from women who said they worked as housekeepers for the makeup mogul.
