Kendall Jenner may have matching friendship necklaces with her female BFFs, but according to her, she's a "guy's girl" through and through.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star, 20, took to her website and app Wednesday to share a post about why she surrounds herself, for the most part, with a large group of male friends.

"Nine times out of ten, I'd rather hang out with a group of guys instead of girls," she said. "I definitely consider myself a guy's girl. Growing up, I was always a tomboy, but more recently I've found myself really gravitating toward hanging with only guys."

Jenner, who has four sisters and one brother, explained she thinks it's because she's surrounded mostly by women — especially now that her father Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, has transitioned.

"I think because I have so many women in my family and not many men — especially after my dad transitioned — I'm drawn to male energy when choosing friends," she said.

"Half the time, I'm the only girl in the room!" she added. "Like the other night, seven or eight of my guy friends were at my house and I was just napping on the couch. I'm just supercomfortable around them.

That being said, she still enjoys some quality girl time.

"Don't get me wrong, though — I LOVE my girlfriends," she added. "You need those one or two ladies in your life. Being around them is like a therapy session and you need those girls to vent! But, being around my guys is fun and easy."

RELATED VIDEO: 'Comfortable, Cool and Simple' — Kendall Jenner Breaks Down Her Best Style Moments

And Jenner's "guy's girl" attitude certainly matches up with her recent outings — after she was spotted out with her friend Tyler, the Creator in August, a source told PEOPLE the two were just good friends, and that it's not unusual for the star to regularly hang out with male friends.

"She has a huge group of guys around her at all times," said the source. "All her friends joke about how she's always surrounded by a bunch of dudes."

Keeping Up with the Kardashians airs Sundays (9 p.m. ET) on E!

NBC host Kristen Welker has revealed that President Donald Trump blamed "disruptive" rain for causing him to storm out of their recent Meet the Press interview in a bad mood.

"I spoke to him the morning after the interview, and without getting into an exact verbatim of what was said, he effectively said, 'Look, the rain was disruptive. We're going to do this again in Washington,'" Welker told Vanity Fair.

"I've covered President Trump since 2015 when he was a candidate, and it doesn't faze me at all. It's part of the conversation. I anticipate it to some extent," she said.

"I try to stay focused on the content of my questions and on getting answers. Because that's my goal, particularly in a presidential interview – to have that amount of time with a president. My goal is to get answers on behalf of the American people."

The interview in question was filmed last Friday in a Wisconsin barn after the pair had travelled to the Midwest for an agricultural event – not in Washington, D.C., as was originally planned.

With rain hammering noisily on the metal roof of the makeshift studio, Trump became incensed with the host around the 35-minute mark when she questioned him about his baseless insistence that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged."

Finally losing his patience with the journalist's persistence, he suggested she was either "crooked or stupid," which Welker denied, and then said: "You're crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked, and so is ABC and CBS and CNN, one-sided crooked networks.

"Let's call it quits, because I've had enough… Thank you, darling. Have a good time."

When Welker protested his departure, he fumed: "I've sat in the rain with you for an hour. On and off in the rain. And I've given you enough time.

"You want to straighten out your press because, you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press."

As he marched off past the John Deere tractors and straw, Welker pleaded, "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview…" to no avail, a remark for which she was subsequently mocked by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

The interview was broadcast on Sunday's episode of Meet the Press, with Welker writing on social media beforehand that it had been "unfortunately complicated by weather issues" while maintaining that it had been "a substantial conversation" nonetheless.

The incident was just the latest example of Trump blowing up at a female reporter, having previously called The New York Times' Katie Rogers "ugly, both inside and out," suggested Weijia Jiang of CBS News was too dim to pass a cognitive test and admonished Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey with the words: "Quiet, piggy."

More in Politics

Navy admiral fired by Hegseth and local attorney advance to runoff in Dem primary to replace Nancy Mace

Fox News

668

The House Just Passed a 'Pro-Worker' Bill That Takes Power Away From Workers

Reason.com

1.1K

Trump inflation quip a ‘Tower of Babel’ moment, Bill O’Reilly says

NewsNation

1.7K

Forget SpaceX Hype. Watch This Space Defense StockSeeking Alpha ·

AdAd

Just days earlier, he had rebuked CNN's Kaitlan Collins when she dared to ask him about the Department of Justice's proposed $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, which stood to benefit Jan 6 rioters.

"CNN's a very corrupt organization, with a corrupt reporter standing right there," Trump said, pointing at Collins.

"Never smiles. She never – she's a young, beautiful woman – smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing with hatred in her eyes."

The Gist

• Jennifer Lopez was the featured guest on the June 10 episode of her Office Romance co-star Brett Goldstein's podcast, "Films to Be Buried With."

• In the episode, she opened up about many movies that she's loved over the years, including 1993's crime thriller True Romance.

• Candidly, she admitted she "would have had sex with any one of" the film's stars.

Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein played love interests in Netflix's romantic comedy Office Romance, and she appeared on his podcast, "Films to Be Buried With," on June 10. Her comfort with Goldstein was evident, as her candor was cranked up to the maximum—including the entertainer naming the movie that she finds to be the most "arousing."

That film, cutting to the chase, is 1993's crime thriller True Romance, starring Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Patricia Arquette, and Gary Oldman—and Lopez said she "would have had sex with any one of them."

The cast, she added, "were so incredibly fucking good," adding that "There are all these very seedy characters in the movie."

"You have Christian Slater, who works in this record store and has hallucinations of Elvis—who's played by Val Kilmer," the "On the Floor" singer explained. "And then you have Patricia Arquette, who couldn't be better as the hooker with the heart of gold, the sweetest."

Even after Arquette's character is beat up, "she's still sexy," Lopez said. "You still want to kind of kiss her on the lips. You know what I mean? It's crazy, that movie."

The cast also included "James Gandolfini as a hitman" and "Brad Pitt as a stoner," Lopez said. Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, and Samuel L. Jackson also appeared in the film, which was written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.

After confessing that she would "have had sex with any one of them," she doubled down. "That is the truth. Which says a lot about me, but maybe, like, the dark side of me."

Other formative movies of Lopez's life included 1961's West Side Story, 1983's Flashdance, 1986's 9½ Weeks, 2004's The Notebook and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and 2024's I'm Still Here.

Of the latter film, she spoke on the podcast about going through her divorce from Ben Affleck and watching the movie—while sick—around Christmas with her father. "My dad was sitting there and something happened in my head and I just started crying, where I started calculating all of the things with my kids, my experience with my dad—like, everything happened just all at once," she said. "My whole family knew I was going through a hard time."

Lopez was "trying to cry quietly," she said, but found herself sobbing, "like water gushing down my face," she explained. Her dad asked her what was wrong, and "I said, 'Dads are so important,'" she remembered. "And he just kind of came over to me and grabbed my face and said, 'I love you. I always loved you.' And that kind of changed my life in that moment."

"[It] healed a part of me that needed to be healed to kind of move on from that part of my life and from those types of relationships in my life," the Hustlers star said. "So that movie changed me and helped me grow."

Of The Notebook, she added, "There is nothing more romantic. That's what everyone wants, is to have that connection and to love someone so deeply that you can't imagine your life without them."

Lopez's connection to Goldstein was evident in her intimate answers to his questions. "We had great chemistry to begin with," she told People. "It just grew as we did the film together."

"I expected more of a rough guy, but you get this kind, gentle but also very smart person that is so charming," she continued. "That was a surprise, I think."

Read the original article on InStyle

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.

A family fortune worth roughly $135 billion can buy a lot of things. Mansions, private jets, and enough security to make a small country jealous all come to mind. According to Melinda French Gates, though, it wasn't going to buy her children a shortcut to adulthood.

The former wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spoken openly about the deliberate effort she made to raise the couple's three children — Jennifer, 30, Rory, 27, and Phoebe, 24 — with many of the same values she learned growing up in a middle-class household.

The approach was shaped by more than her own childhood. It was also influenced by what she saw when she encountered children who had grown up surrounded by wealth.

"I had been around a lot of kids from wealth in college, and I knew how I did not want my children to turn out. I really thought about some of the middle-class values I grew up with," Melinda told Vogue in a joint interview with her daughters in November.

Don't Miss:

• Most budgeting apps ignore your investments. Empower doesn't — it syncs your 401(k), IRA, bank, and credit accounts into one real-time dashboard.

• Your income is your family's foundation. Ladder lets eligible applicants lock in term life coverage in minutes — and you can adjust as your income grows.

The Lesson Came Long Before The Billions

Growing up in Dallas as one of four children, Melinda was raised by an aerospace engineer father and a homemaker mother. Long before private jets and sprawling estates entered the picture, she learned that money came with limits.

She carried those lessons into family life even after marrying one of the richest people in the world.

"It was much more of an upbringing like I grew up in — a very middle-class household where money dictated whether I got an extra pair of shoes each year or not," she told The New York Times in 2024. "I thought that was a good principle to have."

The family established rules that would have sounded familiar in many households. The children received allowances, maintained wish lists, and learned that wanting something did not automatically mean getting it.

"We absolutely did not just buy them things," she said. "They either had to buy with their allowance or put it on their wish list."

Keeping The Gates Name From Doing The Heavy Lifting

Money wasn't the only thing Melinda worried about.

She also wanted her children to develop identities separate from one of the most recognizable last names in the world.

Trending: The IRS Could Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Retirement Savings Than Many Expect — Some Investors Are Seeking Professional Help

To do that, all three children used her maiden name, French, throughout elementary school. The choice became theirs later.

"I wanted the kids to be seen for who they were," she told Elle last year. "My oldest daughter went in with Gates; she felt like she was ready to take that name on. My son chose not to. He used French all the way through high school."

Even conversations about private travel came with ground rules.

"We said to them from a very early age, 'You're really not allowed to tell other people how we flew on this trip back and forth. Otherwise, it will separate you from other children,'" Melinda said.

The Real Inheritance Isn't Always The Money

Whether the strategy worked is ultimately something only the children can answer, but there are signs the lessons stuck.

Phoebe Gates, who graduated from Stanford University in 2024 with a degree in human biology, has spoken candidly about the discomfort that came with arriving on campus carrying one of America's most famous surnames.

"I came in, I was like, 'I'm so privileged, I'm a nepo baby.' I had so much insecurity around that," she said on the debut episode of her "The Burnouts" podcast last year.

"I feel like it's so hard when you're a freshman in college because you have no experience. You have nothing."

Jennifer Gates is now a married equestrian and aspiring physician, while Rory Gates has largely stayed out of the public spotlight.

See Also: Explore Jeff Bezos-backed Arrived Homes and see how investors are earning passive rental income — now with a limited-time 1% bonus match for new investors.

Bill Gates has also made clear that the family's wealth is not intended to eliminate the need for ambition.

"My kids got a great upbringing and education, but less than 1% of the total wealth — because I decided it wouldn't be a favor to them," he said on the "Figuring Out With Raj Shamani" podcast in 2025. "It's not a dynasty. I want to give them a chance to have their own earnings and success."

The Gates family may operate on a financial scale few people will ever experience, but the underlying question is surprisingly common. How much is enough to help children, and how much starts getting in the way?

For families with substantial assets, that balancing act often extends beyond parenting and into estate planning. Trust structures, phased inheritances, charitable giving plans, and family financial education strategies can all influence how wealth affects future generations. 

A financial advisor can help families build a plan that passes down more than money — preserving the values, expectations, and opportunities they hope future generations will carry forward.

After all, Melinda's concern was never really about money. It was about making sure money didn't become the most important thing about her children. For parents at every income level, that's a challenge that doesn't require a billion-dollar fortune to understand.

Read Next: Dave Ramsey has long stressed investing with intention — now some are looking at early-stage plays in the fast-growing lithium space

Building Wealth Across More Than Just the Market

Building a resilient portfolio means thinking beyond a single asset or market trend. Economic cycles shift, sectors rise and fall, and no one investment performs well in every environment. That's why many investors look to diversify with platforms that provide access to real estate, fixed-income opportunities, precious metals, and even self-directed retirement accounts. By spreading exposure across multiple asset classes, it becomes easier to manage risk, capture steady returns, and create long-term wealth that isn't tied to the fortunes of just one company or industry.

Arrived

Backed by Jeff Bezos, Arrived Homes makes real estate investing accessible with a low barrier to entry. Investors can buy fractional shares of single-family rentals and vacation homes starting with as little as $100. This allows everyday investors to diversify into real estate, collect rental income, and build long-term wealth without needing to manage properties directly.

Vinovest 

Fine wine and rare whiskey have historically moved independently of the stock market, making them a compelling alternative asset. Vinovest manages authenticated, insured portfolios of investment-grade wine and whiskey starting at $5,000 — sourcing, storage, and insurance all handled for you.

FarmTogether

Farmland has historically held its value through market volatility and delivered returns uncorrelated to stocks and bonds. For accredited investors, FarmTogether offers direct access to high-quality U.S. farmland starting at $15,000 — fully managed, with no landlord headaches.

EquityMultiple 

For accredited investors looking beyond stocks and bonds, EquityMultiple provides access to vetted commercial real estate deals starting at $5,000, with only ~5% of opportunities passing their due diligence process. 

Fundrise

Private real estate and private credit can add income and stability to a stock-heavy portfolio. Fundrise offers access to diversified private real estate and credit strategies through an easy-to-use platform, with professionally managed portfolios designed to generate passive income and long-term growth.

EnergyX

EnergyX is a clean energy technology company focused on direct lithium extraction and refinery technologies for the lithium-ion battery supply chain. Its proprietary DLE systems are designed to recover lithium from brine resources more efficiently and with less environmental impact, supporting efforts to expand lithium supply for electric vehicles, grid-scale storage, and other battery applications.

American Hartford Gold

American Hartford Gold is a precious metals dealer that helps clients buy physical gold and silver coins and bars, either for direct delivery or within self-directed precious metals IRAs. The company's services include gold and silver IRAs, IRA rollovers, and home delivery of bullion, giving investors a way to use tangible metals to diversify portfolios and seek protection against inflation and market volatility. 

Image: Imagn

This article Bill Gates' Ex-Wife Melinda Says Being Around Rich Kids Showed Her 'How I Did Not Want My Children To Turn Out' — So She Raised Them 'Middle Class' originally appeared on Benzinga.com

© 2026 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.