Fundraiser launched to make Kylie Jenner billionaire while US man dies from failing to get $50 for insulin
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Aged just 20 and the youngest member of the extended reality-television Kardashian clan, Kylie Jenner is on track to become America's youngest "self-made" billionaire, Forbes revealed Wednesday.

Jenner set up Kylie Cosmetics two years ago and the company has already sold more than $630 million worth of makeup, the magazine said.

Forbes conservatively valued her company at $800 million and raised her overall worth to $900 million by throwing in earnings from television programs, endorsements, and after-tax dividends.

Comedian Josh Ostrovsky, known on Instagram as The Fat Jewish, created a GoFundMe page to raise the last $100 million in Jenner's way.

"I don't want to live in a world where Kylie Jenner doesn't have a billion dollars," he said on his page, urging people to spread the word as it was "extremely important."

Ostrovsky's initiative raised $569 from 57 people in one day.

A couple of months earlier, however, was the one-year anniversary of the death of Shane Patrick Boyle. A man from the U.S., who died from diabetic ketoacidosis, a serious complication of diabetes, which he developed because he could not afford to buy enough insulin and was stretching his supply for too long.

Boyle too had a GoFundMe page, but he died after being just $50 short of reaching his $750 goal to pay for a monthtarget="_blank"'>