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Kendall Jenner: 'I grew up too fast'

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Kendall Jenner has revealed that she feels she grew up too fast. The 19-year-old model and reality TV star, who has walked catwalks around the world and was recently announced as the new face of Estée Lauder, says that growing up in a hard-working family inspired her to take on a lot from an early age."I feel like I grew up too fast a long time ago," she wrote in an editorial for the Wall Street Journal. "Having older siblings, you grow up around adults, so you mature more quickly."

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Kendall, whose parents are Bruce and Kris Jenner and whose half sisters are the famous Kardashian sisters, Kourtney, Kim and Khloé, says that her family's hard-working nature rubbed off on her when she was growing up."I saw my sisters and parents working every day, so I was pretty much brought up to be a workaholic," she wrote. "But I just turned 19 a couple weeks ago, and I'm scared to be 20 it's the first step out of being a teenager. "Kendall described how 30-year-old Khloé reminds her of her youth and often tells her and her younger sister Kylie to enjoy being young while they can.

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Kendall credits her hard-working family with making her ambitious from a young age

"In the right situations, I try to be as immature as I can sometimes and react to things as if I were 12," she said. "You can't take things too seriously. I just laugh thinking about my dad being a teenager, partying. It's the funniest thing. And it makes me think 'what am I going to be like when I'm 65?'"Kendall was chosen by the Wall Street Journal to discuss the topic of youth alongside five other 'luminaries' who included: Goldie Hawn, footballer Tim Howard, pschology professor Jeffrey Arnett, scincare brand creator Dr. Fredric Brandt and writer Maira Kalman.