{"id":747737,"date":"2022-01-13T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/kylie-jenner-becomes-first-woman-to-reach-300-million-instagram-followers\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:36:28","slug":"kylie-jenner-becomes-first-woman-to-reach-300-million-instagram-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/kylie-jenner-becomes-first-woman-to-reach-300-million-instagram-followers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Jenner becomes first woman to reach 300 million Instagram followers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It may be time to officially crown\u00a0Kylie Jenner<\/strong>\u00a0the Queen of Instagram.<\/p>\n

The Kylie Cosmetics mogul, 24, has become the first woman in the world to reach 300 million Instagram followers on the social media platform.<\/p>\n

The milestone makes her only the second person, behind soccer pro,\u00a0Cristiano Ronaldo<\/strong>\u00a0(at 388 million) to reach such a high follower count.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instagram\u2019s official account\u00a0<\/strong>takes the helm as the most-followed on the platform with 460 million.<\/p>\n

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Previously,\u00a0Ariana Grande<\/strong>\u00a0took the top spot as the most-followed woman on Instagram. In Feb. 2019, Grande had racked up\u00a0146.5 million followers<\/strong>, beating out\u00a0Selena Gomez<\/strong>, who had earned the most-followed spot before the \u201cPositions\u201d pop star.<\/p>\n

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Jenner\u2019s made the social media milestone despite keeping a relatively low profile on Instagram for the past two months.<\/p>\n

The star, who is expecting her second child with rapper Travis Scott, took some time away from social media after\u00a010 concertgoers died\u00a0at Scott\u2019s Astroworld Festival show in Houston on Nov. 5. Jenner returned to Instagram on Christmas Eve with a\u00a0throwback picture of her mother, Kris Jenner.<\/p>\n

Then on New Year\u2019s Eve, the\u00a0Keeping Up with the Kardashians<\/em>\u00a0alum took time to reflect on the highs and the lows of the past year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs 2022 is approaching i\u2019ve been reflecting on this last year and the blessings that it brought but also the many heartaches it held,\u201d\u00a0she wrote alongside the black-and-white image\u00a0of her growing baby bump. \u201cI will never forget this year and all the significant changes it made to my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI pray this new year is filled with a lot of love for all of you and i hope everyone stays safe and healthy during this time. \ud83d\udda4,\u201d the Kylie Cosmetics founder added.<\/p>\n

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In his first Instagram post following the\u00a0Astroworld tragedy\u00a0that occurred in November, Scott, 30, shared a black-and-white image of his side profile on Dec. 31 writing, \u201cAlways \ud83e\udd0e.\u201d Jenner commented with two \u201c\ud83e\udd0e\ud83e\udd0e\u201d emojis.<\/p>\n

At the time of the tragedy, both Scott and Jenner posted\u00a0statements\u00a0and mourned the deaths of the fans. Scott and rapper\u00a0Drake, who appeared for a song at the show, were named in a\u00a0$750 million lawsuit\u00a0filed by 125 Astroworld Festival attendees.<\/p>\n

The victims killed were\u00a0Axel Acosta, 21,\u00a0Jacob Jurinek, 21;\u00a0John Hilgert,\u00a014;\u00a0Brianna Rodriguez, 16;\u00a0Franco Pati\u00f1o, 21;\u00a0Ezra Blount, 9;\u00a0Rudy Pe\u00f1a, 23;\u00a0Madison Dubiski, 23;\u00a0Danish Baig, 27; and\u00a0Bharti Shahani, 22.<\/p>\n

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