Kylie Jenner is being sued by her former personal chef who claims her grueling workload led to her miscarriage.
In court documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, the woman, whose name has not yet been released, claims she worked 11- to 12-hour shifts five days a week and was assigned a physically demanding job despite warning her supervisor that she had a high-risk pregnancy, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The chef claims she started working as Jenner’s personal chef in November 2024. The next month, she warned her boss (who is also named as a co-defendant in the lawsuit) that she was three months pregnant and “reasonable accommodations were required to protect her health and pregnancy.”
On New Year’s Eve 2024, she claims her boss instructed her to “lift and carry heavy groceries across the street and up a hill without assistance.”
Due to the difficult task, the chef “felt dizzy, became suffocated and began gasping for breath, requiring the assistance of security personnel, who intervened by providing water and assistance.”
In a separate incident, she claims she was forced to work at a birthday event for Jenner’s child in Palm Springs around February 1, but was not given “adequate support” to meet the party’s needs. The chef claims he asked for help but was ignored by managers.
“Due to exhaustion and extreme physical strain, (she) had an emotional breakdown in the bathroom during the event,” the complaint states. “That night, (she) experienced extreme physical fatigue and heaviness throughout her body as a result of long hours of strenuous work.”
By the next morning, she began experiencing severe blood loss and immediately headed to a nearby hospital, where she was informed that “no heartbeat could be detected and she had lost the fetus.”
Days after reporting her miscarriage to her boss, the woman was “unjustly accused of leaving her kitchen and refrigerator in disarray after the Palm Springs event.”
She began experiencing more severe bleeding on February 8, and subsequently developed severe depression and emotional distress as a result of the miscarriage, the documents said. But she claims one of her bosses then reprimanded her: “Stop it, stop it. You’re making Kylie angry. You’re bringing her down.”
The chef is seeking an unspecified amount of damages, alleging that in addition to suffering accommodation failures, pregnancy discrimination and harassment, she was misclassified as an independent contractor, was not paid on time or for reasonable hours, and was wrongfully terminated.
Representatives for Jenner and Sheff did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
This is the third lawsuit Jenner, 28, has faced in 2026 from a former employee.
In April, former housekeeper Angelica Vazquez sued the founder of Kylie Cosmetics for wrongful termination, alleging that other employees discriminated against her based on her religion and nationality.
Vazquez, a Salvadoran Catholic, claims in her lawsuit that she was routinely “assigned the most difficult and undesirable tasks, excluded from the household team, publicly belittled and humiliated in front of her co-workers because of her race, nationality, and religion, and subjected to intimidation and humiliating treatment.”
The plaintiff also alleged that the defendants “made repeated discriminatory and derogatory statements” that were “intended to degrade, intimidate, and assert power over her.”
She ultimately resigned from her position in August 2025, about a year after joining the company in September 2024, after allegedly developing “symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder” from the hostile work environment.
Although none of her claims were specifically directed at Jenner, the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star was the subject of a lawsuit for not properly addressing Vasquez’s claims.
Later that month, another of Jenner’s former housekeepers, Juana Delgado Soto, also filed a lawsuit against Jenner, alleging similar claims. Soto claimed in court documents that she was abused by other staff members.
She also claimed that when she sought help from the makeup mogul, she was threatened with termination and other staff told her never to contact Jenner again.
