Kim Kardashian has made a heartbreaking revelation about how her pregnancy changed her self-esteem.
The reality star welcomed her eldest daughter North in 2013 and admitted that she felt like she was “not a good pregnant person,” I was not a cute pregnant person, I did not like it”.
“I hated it. I hated how I felt. I hated how I looked,” she shared. “I was so used to seeing my mom pregnant, my sister pregnant and everyone looking so cute and having these easy deliveries and it was great and they snapped right back. That wasn’t me.”
At the time, the Duchess of Cambridge was also pregnant with Prince George, and Kim revealed that the comparisons “really did brutalize me” and that it was “so nasty”.
“It was like Kate the waif versus the whale. It was so nasty. I can’t really believe it. I don’t think it would really fly today, but it killed my self-esteem. I can’t believe that this was acceptable and that this was OK,” she said.
Speaking on the We Are Supported By… podcast with hosts Kristen Bell and Monica Padman, Kim also shared that she was terrified to go to a gym after the birth because she feared further backlash.
“We didn’t have a gym or anything and I was too embarrassed to go to a gym because I didn’t want people to look at me trying to lose weight,” she said.
“I gained 70 pounds. I would sit in my mom’s garage and it was literally probably 115 degrees in Calabasas in the summertime. I’d have my daughter in a stroller and I’d sit her in there and I would just work out in the garage and try to do anything I could until I did it.”
Kim welcomed son Saint in 2015, but both of her pregnancies resulted in Placenta accreta leading her and former husband Kanye West to use surrogacy for their next babies, Chicago and Psalm.
Placenta accreta is a serious pregnancy condition that occurs when the placenta grows too deeply into the uterine wall. After birth, all or parts of the placenta remain in the womb, leading to potentially severe blood loss after delivery.