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Kylie Jenner Plays The Sims 4, But Can She Afford the DLC?

Kylie Jenner revealed she and Kendall have been playing The Sims since childhood on Kid Cudi's new podcast, sparking instant community debate over her mod folder.

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Kylie Jenner just came out as a simmer, and the Sims 4 community has one very reasonable follow-up question: does she use mods?

The revelation came during the premiere episode of Kid Cudi's new digital series "Big Bro With Kid Cudi," which launched April 1, 2026, on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. It was only Jenner's second-ever podcast appearance, and she used a stretch of it to confirm what her Sim would already know: she and Kendall have been playing The Sims since they were kids and have not stopped. "Kendall and I have been playing Sims since we were little, and we're still playing it to this day, and we'll just, like, play for, like, hours," Jenner said. Kid Cudi admitted he "hasn't played the Sims in a minute."

SimsCommunity picked up the story on April 7, framing Jenner as a "life-long simmer." The reaction was immediate and split into two camps: genuine excitement and absolute chaos about what her game library looks like. Twitter user @deykxn captured the prevailing mood: "need to know if she uses mods, or what her favorite expansion pack is.. like i need answers!!"

The DLC question is more pointed than it sounds. Buying every piece of paid Sims 4 content at full price runs well into the hundreds of dollars, and the arrival of The Sims Marketplace, which sells individual items piecemeal, has only sharpened that particular community anxiety. The joke writes itself: even a billionaire might scroll through that cart and pause.

Jenner also wandered into the game's surprisingly committed Simlish lore. She described a TikTok video of a voice actress speaking Simlish fluently, which Kendall had sent her saying "Oh my god, I'm fangirling out. This is the voice!" The actress spotted the clip and posted to Instagram: "Thanks, Kylie, call me up for Simlish lessons," adding that she had been voicing The Sims for over a decade and "went crazy over the pandemic and taught everyone how to speak Simlish."

So if Kylie opened a fresh save today, what would the build actually look like? The framework practically constructs itself. For Create-A-Sim, the Kylie aesthetic lives in sculpted brows, heavy contour, and full lips that go well beyond base game sliders. That territory belongs to alpha CC: high-polygon lip overlays, HD skin details, and Kijiko's lashes, which remain the community's non-negotiable for any celebrity-coded sim. Sleek, long hair is covered by any number of CC creators working in that lane.

The mansion is where packs start stacking. Get Famous handles the celebrity mechanics that make a Jenner-coded sim narratively coherent. Dream Home Decorator supplies the interior design gameplay loop. For furnishings, the Desert Luxe Kit maps almost directly onto the minimal, high-contrast Calabasas interior aesthetic, while Luxury Party Stuff covers the catered-event, rooftop-pool finishing layer that makes the lot feel inhabited rather than staged.

Celebrity collaborations have been a large part of the Sims franchise since the beginning, so it is only natural to wonder whether Jenner's revelation could lead to something more formal. For now, creator Jolea's Kylie Jenner sim is already uploaded to Mod Collective and The Sims Resource for anyone who wants to skip the CAS step. The real Kylie's actual save file, mod folder included, remains classified.

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