Kris Jenner Age 2026: How Old Is the Momager at 71?

Last updated: November 5, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Kris Jenner is 71 years old today. The Kardashian-Jenner matriarch was born Kristen Mary Houghton on November 5, 1955, in San Diego, California, which means she turned 71 on November 5, 2026. Most of the internet still lists her as 70, because most age pages were written before this birthday and never updated. They are out of date as of this morning. Bored Panda’s celebrity-birthday roundup for November 5, 2026, already lists her as 71, and Wikipedia’s infobox has flipped to 71 as well.

Seventy-one looks different on Kris Jenner than it looks on almost anyone else in public life. She is filming the eighth season of The Kardashians on Hulu, which premiered on October 8, 2026. She manages six adult children whose combined business interests run into the billions. She spent the last two weeks of October in Rome with Kim Kardashian, wearing a cape that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor. Her own fortune sits at an estimated $170 million, per Celebrity Net Worth, and she collects a reported 10 percent of nearly everything her children earn. She turned 70 last year with a James Bond-themed party and a new facelift. She turned 71 this year in the middle of a working season, a grieving year, and a family empire that shows no sign of slowing down.

This article answers the age question first, then works through the whole life behind the number: the San Diego childhood, the two marriages, the six children, the invention of the “momager” job, the 20 seasons of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, the Hulu second act, the money, the 13 grandchildren, and the very public way she has handled aging, loss, and turning 71 in 2026.

How Old Is Kris Jenner in 2026?

Kris Jenner is 71 years old. She was born on November 5, 1955, and she turned 71 on November 5, 2026. The math is simple, but the internet has made it confusing. Most age pages were written while she was 70 and were never revised, so a search for her age still returns page after page that says 70. Iconpolls, one of the more careful of those pages, states it plainly: she was 70 in 2026 and would turn 71 on November 5, 2026. That date is now here.

The confusion has a second source. A handful of low-quality biography sites list her birth date as November 4, 1955. That listing is wrong. Wikipedia, Simple Wikipedia, TheFamousPeople, and the birthday roundups published on November 5, 2026, all agree on November 5. Bored Panda’s roundup for the day, published in the early hours of November 5, 2026, opens with “Happy birthday to Kris Jenner” and lists her as 71. There is no serious dispute about the date.

Her age lands differently depending on which part of her life you measure it against. She was 51 when Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered in October 2007, a month short of her 52nd birthday. She was 65 when the show ended in June 2021. She was 66 when The Kardashians launched on Hulu in April 2022. She turned 70 in November 2025 and 71 in November 2026, both birthdays falling inside the run of the Hulu series. She has now spent more than 19 years of her life, from 51 to 71, as a reality-television star. She spent the first 51 years of it as a private citizen, a wife, and a mother. The second half of that sentence is the part most age pages skip, and it is the part that explains the fortune.

Kris Jenner Birthday: November 5, 1955

Kris Jenner was born Kristen Mary Houghton on November 5, 1955, in San Diego, California. Her parents were Mary Jo Shannon, known to the family as MJ, and Robert True Houghton, an engineer. She was the elder of two children. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio, a detail her family has leaned into more than once: in October 2026 she wore a black velvet Scorpio cape to the Rome premiere of Kim Kardashian’s legal drama All’s Fair, a cape Kim confirmed once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor and sold at auction in 2011 for $74,500.

November 5 has become a working date in the Kardashian-Jenner calendar rather than a private one. Her 70th birthday, in November 2025, was marked with a James Bond-themed party on November 8, 2025, held during the run of The Kardashians season 7. The family chose not to film the party for the show, according to FandomWire’s account of the event, which kept one of the few family occasions of the year off camera. Rumors before the party suggested it might double as a surprise wedding to her longtime boyfriend Corey Gamble. TMZ reported at the time that no wedding took place.

Her 71st birthday arrives in a different mood. Her mother, Mary Jo “MJ” Campbell, died on July 16, 2026, at the age of 91, and Kris announced the death herself with a public statement praising a mother who “taught us that family is everything.” MJ had survived breast cancer and colon cancer, and Kris had spoken openly in the years before her death about worrying over her mother’s frailty. The first birthday without her mother is the one Kris turns 71.

Early Life in Southern California

Kris Houghton grew up in Southern California, in and around San Diego and later the Los Angeles area. She attended Clairemont High School and graduated in 1973, when she was 17. The details of those years are thin in the public record, and the honest version of her early life is shorter than the version told about her later decades. She was not a child star. She was not a model or an actress. She was a teenager in 1970s California who married young and built the rest of her public life from that marriage.

She met attorney Robert Kardashian when she was 17 years old, according to Celebrity Net Worth’s biography of her. Robert Kardashian was a Los Angeles lawyer who later became nationally known as a member of O.J. Simpson’s defense team in the 1990s, but in the late 1970s he was a successful young attorney starting a family. Kris married him on July 8, 1978. She was 22. She took the name Kris Kardashian, and the next thirteen years of her life were the years in which the Kardashian name became a household name, in that order: marriage first, children second, fame a distant third.

Before the cameras arrived, she ran a children’s boutique called Smooch in Calabasas with her eldest daughter Kourtney. The shop was a small, local business, the kind that teaches a person how inventory, rent, and customers actually work. That experience matters more than it looks like it should. When the family later built beauty and fashion brands worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the person running the operation had already run a shop. She had handled stock, staff, and a till. The boutique closed long before the television money arrived, but the habit of treating a family name as a business did not.

First Marriage: Robert Kardashian, 1978–1991

Kris and Robert Kardashian were married for thirteen years, from July 1978 to their divorce in 1991. Four children were born during the marriage: Kourtney in 1979, Kim in 1980, Khloé in 1984, and Rob in 1987. Kris was 23 when Kourtney was born and 31 when Rob arrived. Robert Kardashian died in 2003, at 59, from esophageal cancer, twelve years after the divorce.

The marriage ended in 1991, and Kris married again within the year. The divorce and the remarriage are the hinge of her biography. Four children carried the Kardashian name into the television era. Two more children, born in the second marriage, carried the Jenner name. The blended family that resulted, four Kardashians and two Jenners, became the cast of the most durable reality franchise in television history. None of that was planned in 1978. In 1978 it was a young couple in Los Angeles having children.

Robert Kardashian’s later fame as a lawyer has a habit of pulling focus from Kris’s part of the story, but the two are connected. His friendship with O.J. Simpson and his place on the defense team in 1995 put the Kardashian name in front of a national audience for the first time. Kris was divorced from him by then. The name recognition that followed belonged to the family as a whole, and Kris, who held the family together through the divorce, was the one who later turned that recognition into a business.

Six Children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Rob, Kendall, and Kylie

Kris Jenner has six children, and their birth years map the whole arc of her adult life. Kourtney Kardashian was born in 1979, Kim Kardashian in 1980, Khloé Kardashian in 1984, and Rob Kardashian in 1987, all during her marriage to Robert Kardashian. Kendall Jenner was born in 1995 and Kylie Jenner in 1997, during her marriage to Caitlyn Jenner. When Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered in 2007, Kourtney was 28, Kim was 26, Khloé was 23, Rob was 20, Kendall was 11, and Kylie was 10. Kris was 51, managing four adult children and two school-age daughters at the same time.

The children’s careers now dwarf the show that introduced them. Kim Kardashian is worth an estimated $1.9 billion, according to Forbes, largely from her stake in Skims, which was valued near $1.67 billion after a November 2025 funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives. Kylie Jenner is worth roughly $670 million, mostly from Kylie Cosmetics. Kourtney Kardashian is worth about $65 million, and Khloé Kardashian and Kendall Jenner sit near $60 million each, per late-2025 and early-2026 roundups from Parade and StudyCountry. Kris, at an estimated $170 million, is the third-richest member of her own family, behind her two billionaire-adjacent daughters and ahead of the other four children combined in most counts.

The age gaps inside the family are part of the business story. Kendall and Kylie were children when the cameras started, which meant Kris spent the first decade of the show raising two minors in public while negotiating deals for four adults. Kylie, the youngest, launched Kylie Cosmetics at 18 and became the family’s second fortune before she turned 22. Readers keeping track of the daughters’ ages can find the same treatment of Kylie’s timeline in our piece on how old Kylie Jenner is now. The point for this article is simpler: Kris was 41 when Kylie was born, 51 when the show began, and 71 now, and she has been the working manager of all six of them through every one of those years.

Second Marriage: Caitlyn Jenner, 1991–2015

Kris married Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner in 1991, one month after her divorce from Robert Kardashian was finalized, according to TheFamousPeople’s biography. Bruce Jenner had won the decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and remained one of the most famous athletes in America. The marriage lasted 24 years and produced two daughters, Kendall in 1995 and Kylie in 1997. Kris was 39 when Kendall was born and 41 when Kylie arrived.

The marriage ended in divorce in 2015, the same year Bruce Jenner publicly transitioned and began living as Caitlyn Jenner. The divorce and the transition played out in public, on the show and in the press, in the same year. Kris has spoken since about the strain of that period, and the family has worked since to keep the relationship functional. Caitlyn returned to the family’s television orbit in season 7 of The Kardashians on Hulu, appearing at a family gathering at Kris’s Hidden Hills home, her first return to the family’s reality programming since the original series ended in 2021.

The two marriages, taken together, explain the family structure that the whole franchise rests on. Four Kardashian children from a marriage that ended in 1991. Two Jenner children from a marriage that ended in 2015. One mother who held the group together through both endings and turned the group into a company. Kris was 35 when the first marriage ended and 59 when the second one did. She was 60 when she started the next phase of her career as a single woman running a family business, and the Forbes 50 Over 50 list named her to its 2022 class, two years into that phase.

How Kris Jenner Invented the “Momager”

Kris Jenner coined the word “momager” for the job she invented, and then she trademarked it. The job is mother and manager at once, and the business model is disarmingly simple: she takes a reported 10 percent management fee from her children’s commercial deals, and she runs the family operation through her company, Jenner Communications, where she serves as chief executive. The fee is the engine of her personal fortune. Every Skims launch, every Kylie Cosmetics drop, every Good American collection, every paid post, and every television contract passes through it at a tenth.

The model works because the family is the product. A conventional manager takes 10 percent of one client. Kris takes 10 percent of six clients who share a last name, a television show, and an audience that follows all of them at once. When Kylie Cosmetics sold 51 percent to Coty for $600 million in November 2019, valuing the company at nearly $1.2 billion, the deal did more than enrich Kylie. Forbes later estimated that Kris retained about a 5 percent stake in Kylie Cosmetics, worth roughly $30 million at the transaction’s valuation, alongside her ongoing management relationship with her daughter. One deal, two income streams, and a template the family has repeated with Skims, KKW Beauty, and Good American.

Her own account of the job has always been practical rather than grand. She negotiates, she schedules, she says no. The most repeated story in the family’s press coverage is Kim Kardashian stopping her mother from advertising Depend adult incontinence products in October 2026, a deal Kris, at 70, was apparently willing to take and her daughter vetoed. The anecdote is funny, but it is also revealing: at 70, Kris Jenner was still taking meetings about endorsement deals, and her daughter was still the one doing the quality control. The manager works for the talent, even when the manager is the mother.

Keeping Up With the Kardashians: 2007–2021

Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered on E! in October 2007, when Kris Jenner was 51. It ran for 20 seasons and ended in June 2021, when she was 65. The premise, in the beginning, was a family in Calabasas living on camera. The result was a franchise that ran for fourteen years, made the Kardashian name one of the most searched names on the internet, and turned a mother of six into an executive producer with a management company.

Kris’s role on the show was never just cast member. She was an executive producer from the start, and she used the show the way a smart business owner uses a shop window: the cameras brought the audience, and the audience bought the products. The Dash boutiques, the books, the fragrances, the clothing lines, and eventually the beauty empires all ran through the attention the show generated. Her per-episode pay was reported by Forbes at about $100,000, but the episode fee was always the smallest part of the arrangement. The show was the marketing budget for everything else.

The show’s ending in 2021 was a decision, not a cancellation. The family announced the final season, filmed a reunion, and moved to Hulu within a year. Kris was 65 at the finale and 66 at the Hulu premiere. Most reality stars are finished by 65. She was renegotiating.

The Kardashians on Hulu: 2022 and Season 8 in 2026

The Kardashians premiered on Hulu on April 14, 2022, with Kris Jenner, all six of her children, and Ryan Seacrest’s production company behind it. The show is the same family in a different package: higher production values, a streaming schedule, and a cast that now includes grandchildren, husbands, and boyfriends as recurring figures. Season 7 premiered on October 23, 2025, and documented Kris debuting her second facelift, Rob Kardashian’s first on-camera appearance in eight years, and Caitlyn Jenner’s return to the family’s television. Season 8 premiered on October 8, 2026, with new episodes on Thursdays and a finale scheduled for December 10, 2026. Kris turned 71 in the middle of the season.

Hulu’s investment in the franchise grew in 2026. In January 2026 the streamer announced it had acquired United States streaming rights to all 20 seasons of the original Keeping Up With the Kardashians, plus spin-offs including Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami, Kourtney & Khloé Take the Hamptons, and Kourtney & Kim Take New York, with the full catalogue arriving on February 17, 2026. The deal, executed by NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution with Versant, put the entire history of the family, from 2007 to the present, in one place. A viewer who starts the catalogue in 2026 watches Kris Jenner age from 51 to 71 in order.

The eighth season’s storylines, per Hulu’s own synopsis and the trailer released in September 2026, center on love, reinvention, and what comes next, with Kim Kardashian’s health scare, a diagnosis of esophagitis, as the season’s most serious thread. Kris appears in the trailer being asked how her daughters are getting along, and her answer suggests the season is bumpy. She is 71, on camera, still the person the family turns to when the question is hard.

Kris Jenner Net Worth at 71: 0 Million

Kris Jenner’s net worth is estimated at $170 million in 2026. Celebrity Net Worth lists the figure with annual earnings estimated at $40 million, and Parade’s 2026 family fortune rundown and PayPath’s August 2026 update land on the same number. That is the anchor this article uses. The honest range, explained in the box near the top of this article, runs from $170 million to $200 million, because Forbes estimated her at $190 million in 2020 and some 2025 estimates run past $200 million.

Three things push the number up and one thing holds it down. The pushes are the management fees, the equity stakes, and the real estate. The 10 percent fee on six high-earning children compounds year after year, and the stakes, like the roughly 5 percent of Kylie Cosmetics she retained after the Coty deal, grow when the underlying companies grow. The hold-down is that she owns minority positions in other people’s companies. Kim owns Skims. Kylie owns Kylie Cosmetics. Kris owns a slice of the work and a fee on the revenue, which is a smaller pile than owning the company outright. That is why she is worth $170 million while her daughter Kim is worth $1.9 billion, and why the gap between them is a feature of the model rather than a failure of it.

The table makes the family economics plain. Kris is third-richest in the family, and the two people ahead of her are the two whose companies she helped build. Her $170 million is the manager’s share of a family fortune that totals roughly $3.3 billion across the six children and their mother, per Film Daily’s October 2026 addition. She did not inherit it. She negotiated it, one tenth at a time, over nineteen years on television and longer off it.

The 10 Percent Machine: How the Money Actually Flows

The 10 percent management fee is the most important number in Kris Jenner’s financial life, and it is also the most misunderstood. It does not mean she takes 10 percent of her children’s net worth. It means she takes a reported 10 percent of the commercial income they generate: endorsement deals, product launches, appearance fees, and the television contracts she negotiates for them. The fee is her salary. The equity stakes are her savings.

An illustrative example shows how the arithmetic compounds. If Kylie Jenner earns $50 million in a year from cosmetics, endorsements, and television, a 10 percent fee sends $5 million to her mother. Run that across six children, across years in which Kim’s Skims alone was raising rounds that valued her stake near $1.67 billion, and the annual earnings estimate of $40 million that Celebrity Net Worth attaches to Kris starts to look conservative rather than generous. The numbers are illustrative, not audited, and they are labeled as such here because the family has never disclosed the fee schedule. What is documented is the structure: the fee, the company, and the stakes.

The structure has a second layer that most coverage misses. Kris is also an executive producer on the family’s television shows, which pays separately from the management fee. She is a stakeholder in the brands, which pays when the brands are sold or raise money. And she has her own real estate, which Forbes counted when it valued her at $190 million in 2020 and ranked her 92nd on its America’s Self-Made Women list. Three income streams, one person, and a fee that applies to nearly all of them. The model has one weakness, and it is the same as its strength: it depends on the children staying famous and staying close. Nineteen years in, both conditions still hold.

Six Children, 13 Grandchildren: The Family at 71

Kris Jenner is a grandmother to 13 children, a count confirmed by Wikipedia and by Bounty Parents’ July 2026 rundown of the grandchildren, which calls her “Lovey,” the name the grandchildren use for her. The thirteen span three generations of the family business: Mason Disick, born in December 2009, was the first, and Rocky Thirteen Barker, born in November 2023, was the most recent at the time of writing. The oldest grandchild is 15, turning 16 in December. The youngest turned three on November 1, 2026. Kris was 54 when she became a grandmother and 67 when the thirteenth arrived.

The grandchildren are already part of the operation. North West, Kim’s eldest daughter, performs and records music and has been mentored in public by her grandmother. Dream Kardashian, Rob’s daughter, is the only child of Kris’s only son. The family has been careful, in the Hulu era, to keep the youngest children mostly off camera while the older ones choose their own level of exposure. That balance, protection for the small ones and a platform for the older ones, is a management decision, and Kris is the person who makes it.

Some older lists still show ten or eleven grandchildren, and one low-quality biography page lists fourteen. Those counts are stale. Kourtney’s fourth child, Rocky, arrived in November 2023 and pushed the total to thirteen, and no fourteenth grandchild has been born since. A reader who finds a different number is almost always reading a page that was written before November 2023 and never updated, the same staleness problem that still lists Kris herself as 70.

Corey Gamble and Life at 71

Kris Jenner has been in a relationship with Corey Gamble since around 2014, according to Wikipedia. Gamble was born in 1980, which makes him about 25 years younger than Jenner, a gap the press mentions in nearly every story about the couple and one Kris has addressed directly. On Khloé Kardashian’s podcast in April 2026, she said: “At 70 years old, I don’t really care what someone thinks of me. I don’t need anyone’s approval.” The line was about the relationship and about aging at once, and it has become the most quoted thing she has said at 70.

The relationship has survived the usual cycle of engagement rumors. Before her 70th birthday party in November 2025, speculation ran that the James Bond-themed evening might double as a surprise wedding. TMZ reported that no wedding occurred. The couple appeared together in Paris in February 2026, where a red-carpet moment, Kris briefly walking ahead and forgetting Gamble behind her, became a small viral story. Gamble appears on The Kardashians as a recurring figure, and the show treats him as family furniture: present, comfortable, and unbothered by the cameras.

The relationship matters to the age question because it is the part of her life where the age gap is the story. She is 71. He is 45, turning 46 on November 10, 2026. The gap is 25 years, and it has been 25 years for more than a decade, since the relationship began when she was 58 and he was 33. The numbers have stayed the same. The coverage has not, and Kris’s answer to it has stayed the same too: she does not need anyone’s approval.

The Facelift, the 70th Birthday, and Aging in Public

No 70-year-old in America has aged more publicly than Kris Jenner, and no 70-year-old has been more open about the help. In August 2025 she confirmed to Vogue Arabia that she had undergone a second facelift earlier in the year, performed by New York plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Levine, fifteen years after her first. The debut of the result on the season 7 premiere of The Kardashians set off the usual storm: praise, suspicion, and a round of claims that the photographs were retouched. A doctor quoted by CafeMom in May 2026 put it plainly, saying that in unfiltered event photographs she looks like “a beautiful, young well maintained 70-year-old, not the filtered version that went viral.” The sentence is the fairest summary of the whole episode.

The reported price of the procedure is a case study in why this article gives ranges. Some reports put it near $100,000. CelebTattler’s October 2026 report on her Rome outing described a “reported $150,000 facelift.” CafeMom’s May 2026 piece cited claims as high as $300,000. Jenner has never confirmed a figure, and the spread tells the reader more about the guessing than about the surgery. What she has confirmed is the surgeon’s name, the timing, and her satisfaction with the result. In the same Vogue Arabia interview she said she did not know what 70 was supposed to feel like, “but I feel great and I’m happy to be there.”

Her 70th birthday, on November 5, 2025, was followed by the James Bond-themed party on November 8, 2025, and the year that followed kept her in the news for her appearance. In May 2026 she told E! News that Ozempic had made her “extremely sick” and that she had stopped it in favor of peptides and supplements, a disclosure that landed in the middle of Hollywood’s weight-loss-drug debate and gave her an unusually frank public position on it. In October 2026 she appeared in Rome with Kim at the Bvlgari boutique and the All’s Fair premiere, and Hello! magazine’s Halloween piece on October 31, 2026, ran a throwback photograph of her dressed as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, noting that she “has barely aged a day.” The throwback was from decades ago. The Rome photographs were from the week before. The gap between the two is the reason people keep asking how old she is.

Losing Her Mother, and What 71 Looks Like Next

The year Kris Jenner turned 71 was also the year she lost her mother. Mary Jo “MJ” Campbell died on July 16, 2026, at 91, and Kris’s public statement ran to the heart of the family’s public identity: her mother “taught us that family is everything” and “showed us how to love unconditionally and how to find joy in the little moments.” MJ had beaten breast cancer and colon cancer, and Kris had spoken in the years before her death about fearing for her mother’s health as she grew frail. The grandchildren called MJ their great-grandmother. The family called her the foundation. Her death, four months before Kris’s 71st birthday, is the quiet fact underneath the loud year.

The public year carried on regardless. In April 2026, Kris became an unlikely folk figure in China, where tens of thousands of young women on the social platform Xiaohongshu began treating her as a “money goddess,” posting prayers for nine-figure net worth under a hashtag that passed 52.9 million views, according to The China Academy’s account of the phenomenon, citing Sina. The most common caption was a wish to “maintain nine-figure net worth,” and the most cited figure in the posts was Forbes’ estimate of her fortune at more than $170 million. A 70-year-old American reality star had become a manifestation icon for Chinese Gen Z women facing 16 percent youth unemployment. It is the strangest chapter of her 70th year, and it is also the most honest measure of what the momager brand has become: a symbol of money without apology, exported to a country she has never lived in.

What comes next is already scheduled. Season 8 of The Kardashians runs through December 10, 2026. The Hulu catalogue holds all 20 seasons of the original series. The children keep launching companies, and the 10 percent fee keeps compounding. The age milestones, laid out in one place, tell the story better than any single number:

Seventy-one, for Kris Jenner, is not a retirement age. It is a working age, in a working season, at the head of a family that still takes her calls first. The birthday pages will catch up eventually. The number is 71. The story behind it took 71 years to build.

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Sources & Reporting

This article was reported on November 5, 2026, from live sources checked the same day. The birth date and age are sourced to Wikipedia’s Kris Jenner biography and Bored Panda’s celebrity-birthday roundup for November 5, 2026, with Iconpolls confirming the turn-71 date. The net-worth anchor of $170 million is sourced to Celebrity Net Worth, Parade’s 2026 family fortune rundown, and PayPath’s August 2026 update; the $190 million Forbes figure from 2020 and the above-$200 million 2025 estimates are sourced to Film Daily and BBN Times. Family fortunes are sourced to Forbes via Parade and Film Daily (Kim Kardashian, $1.9 billion) and to Parade and StudyCountry (Kylie, Kourtney, Khloé, and Kendall). Television dates are sourced to Wikipedia’s The Kardashians entry and The Futon Critic’s January 2026 Hulu announcement. The facelift reporting is sourced to Vogue Arabia (August 2025), Hello! magazine, and CafeMom (May 2026). The death of Mary Jo Campbell is sourced to LADbible (July 16, 2026). The China “money goddess” phenomenon is sourced to The China Academy, citing Sina (April 2026). Where sources disagreed, on the net-worth figure, the grandchild count, and the facelift cost, this article gives the range and names the outlet behind each number rather than picking one. Figures that no outlet has confirmed, including the exact terms of the family’s management-fee arrangements, are labeled as reported or illustrative. Corrections: see our corrections policy on the About Us page; if a figure in this article changes, it will be updated with a dated note.