Kylie Jenner is facing a third lawsuit from a former employee in 2026, with her former personal chef claiming grueling working conditions during her high-risk pregnancy led to a miscarriage.
Court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior County on Monday reveal that the chef, whose name has not been released, claims she worked 11- to 12-hour shifts five days a week and was given 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, when she was three months along and requested reasonable accommodations.
The situation allegedly came to a head on New Year’s Eve 2024, when she says she was instructed to lift and carry heavy food items across a street and uphill without assistance.
She became dizzy and began to choke and gasp for air, requiring the intervention of security personnel with water and help.
Another incident reportedly occurred around February 1 at a child’s birthday party in Palm Springs, where the chef claims she was given inadequate support and her requests for help were ignored by managers.
“Due to exhaustion and overwhelming physical strain, [she] broke down emotionally in the bathroom during the event,” the documents state.
That evening she experienced severe physical exhaustion, and the following morning she began to bleed profusely. She went to the hospital where she was told there was no heartbeat and that she had lost her baby.
Days after informing her supervisors of 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 more intense bleeding and developed severe depression, she claims a supervisor told her, “Stop it, just stop it. You’re upsetting Kylie. You’re making her depressed.”
The chef is seeking unspecified damages, alleging 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 case Jenner has faced this year.
In April, former housekeeper Angelica Vasquez sued her for wrongful termination, claiming she had been discriminated against because of her Salvadoran heritage and Catholic faith and had developed symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the work environment.
Later that month, another former housekeeper, Juana Delgado Soto, filed a similar case alleging mistreatment by other staff, claiming that when she sought Jenner’s help directly, she was threatened with dismissal and told never to contact her again.
