Kim Kardashian covers the new issue of C Magazine. Quite honestly, I like the cover, although the whole shoot is in black-and-white and it’s just not that eventful. Thankfully, Kim actually gave a pretty interesting interview to C Mag – go here to read the full piece. Kim chats about her fertility struggles, weight struggles and more.
How she describes her job: “I would say “entrepreneur” if I had to say one word. When I’m traveling and they ask what my occupation is I never know what to say—I always switch it. Sometimes I’ll say perfumer, sometimes author. Sometimes I’ll just say [retail] sales.”
How motherhood changed her: “A lot. It has taught me how to prioritize. And I was forced to take a break for awhile. I never liked downtime, but I decided I enjoy it—that’s when the fun ideas come about. I felt like I was, I don’t want to say overexposed, but I had too many different projects.”
Trying for the second baby: “It was over a year of trying, and I had so many complications. I had this condition called placenta accreta. There were a couple of little operations to fix all that, so that created a little hole in my uterus, which I think made it really tough to get pregnant again. It was a long road. I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at five in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier, thinking that was an issue.
Sex on the ovulation schedule: “Yes, it takes the fun out of it. I’m like, “I’m ovulating, get home now!” He’d be like, “Wait, I’m in the studio.”
Whether they’ll stop at two kids: “Well, they think I’ll have placenta accreta again, so if the placenta grows a little bit deeper than it did last time, then they are prepared to have my uterus removed, which is a little scary for me. I think we’re just gonna go day by day, see how overwhelming it is, and see how the delivery goes.”
Figuring out her maternity style: “The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look. They wanted me in really outrageous things, and really fashion-y things. It probably wasn’t the time to be experimenting. After that, Kanye and I were just like, “Let’s do it ourselves.” It was mainly him figuring it out; what my look was and what I was comfortable in. So now I’ve had two years to really come into my own and have my own style. For this pregnancy, I’m definitely more simple. I figured out a formula of what works. And I also feel lucky that as of right now, I don’t feel like I’m gonna get preeclampsia again, which last time [contributed to] not only the weight, but also the swelling that everyone would make fun of, not understanding that I had this condition.”
The criticism about her pregnant body: “It was the worst! I couldn’t help it, and everyone would say, “She can’t stop eating.” I delivered at 180, and they were like, “She’s 210 pounds. She’s getting dumped because she’s too fat” and all these ridiculous stories. It really took a toll after the fact, when I was losing weight. I gained 50 pounds, and it’s tough to get it off. I was dedicated, but also, it changed the way I viewed wanting my picture taken. Before I was always smiling, and so into being out and about. After I had the baby, I was like, these are the same people that made fun of me, and posted the stories that were so awful, calling me fat for something I couldn’t control. I don’t want to smile for them. I don’t want to be out. Even if I was more confident, I just didn’t feel like being that girl who was going to be smiling for every photo. It changed my mood; it changed who I was; it changed my personality a lot.”
Being a reality show star: “Being on a reality show doesn’t get the respect I feel it should. But I love doing it, and if you think about the issues we are really passionate about, the things we bring to light, I’m proud of that. Whether it’s a transgender issue or things that we are dealing with: divorce or breakups or happy relationships. We show the fun stuff and the crazy stuff, but we try to show a good message.”
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of other stuff in there, about how much control Lucifer’s Homegirl exerts over her daughters’ careers (Kim says Kris does not order them around), and how Kim is the man behind the curtain if Keeping Up with the Kardashians is like The Wizard of Oz. She also chats about how the paparazzi have been surprisingly “respectful” towards North and how difficult it will be to raise children in the current social media landscape.
As for Kim figuring out her maternity style this go around… well, it’s better than last time, but that’s setting the bar really low. She still has no idea how to dress for her figure, pregnant or not. I do feel sorry for her about all of the body criticism stuff though. Not as sorry as I would feel if she didn’t bring Us Weekly photographers on vacation with her to Photoshop her bikini photos, but whatever.
Oh, and Kim posted some photos of her “pregnancy lips” on social media. This sparked a “debate” as to whether she was actually getting lip injections while pregnant. But my absolute favorite photo now is the black-and-white pic of Kylie’s ridiculous plastic face next to Kim.
Pregnancy lips 💋 pic.twitter.com/UfHULRPWTq
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) August 25, 2015
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) August 26, 2015
Photos courtesy of Kim’s social media, C Magazine.
She was told it would help her lose at least 5 pounds and let her cinch her waist trainer tighter. So worth it.
I had a hysterectomy six years ago, and your lower abdomen does change in shape. The surgeon has to rearrange some fat pads to account for the missing space and to anchor the top of your vagina so it doesn’t prolapse. I don’t know if it did much for my actual waist, but I imagine it would make waist training slightly easier.
If she has to have it done, hopefully she can do it laparoscopically. I can barely see my scars anymore, and all but one are hidden by my bikini bottoms anyway.
The funniest thing my (male) doctor said to me after the surgery?
“One of the side effects is never having a period again. None of my patients have ever complained about that so I doubt it will be an issue for you.”
If it goes to placenta percreta, she’ll have a planned c-section and hysterectomy. Percreta is no joke – the placenta can attach to the bladder, bowels, whatever very quickly.
I have had a hysterectomy, and had it in my late 30s, and I agree with that doctor. Some conditions produce such menstruation problems that are drastically reducing one’s quality of life that it is indeed a relief when that ends. The world doesn’t need to be Kardashian’s Obstetrician though.
Stupid question but when you have a hysterectomy does that put you into menopause?
I had a complete hysterectomy in March and I’ve never felt better. I didn’t realize how bloated and cramps I felt until it was gone. I’ve gone down two sizes and it seemed to help the problem I was having with gaining weight so easily. I’m in love with my hysterectomy. BRE, I think if you remove your ovaries along with your uterus it puts you into menopause, but I sounds like she would keep her ovaries.
@BRE, everyone is different but as my doctor explained it, a hysterectomy without removal of the ovaries does not necessarily induce immediate menopause. I know my ovaries continued to function for a while after the surgery, but after maybe eight months or so I was definitely having menopausal symptoms. In my case my ovaries did shut down during that time. No new egg production, no release of eggs every month.
@BRE
no, Hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) does not cause menopause. Menopause is the reduction and absence of the hormones estrogen and progesterone, causing you to stop menstruating (and other physical changes).
Removal of the Ovaries (source of hormones and eggs) causes menopause. Hysterectomy vs. Oophorectomy. The uterus is just a very fancy incubator. All the “stuff” comes from the ovaries.
No that’s not true, I had a hysterectomy and it put me into menopause. It wasn’t supposed to but it did. I kept my ovaries. I had one due to the fibroids all in my uterus. I didn’t need it and it’s been one of the worst things to happen to me. I’ve been in menopause for 8 years now since I was 39.
I also has a hysterectomy and immediately went into full blown menopause.
Your uterus also produces hormones
I had a partial when i had my youngest, my uterus ruptured during his birth
So we will only have to deal with two K-West offspring? The world says “yay”!!
I honestly feel terrible for KK
We almost lost a friend to percretia (the step after acretia) in February. She had the baby weeks early, needed a hysterectomy, had dozens of pints of blood transfusions. Her bladder and other organs needed to be rebuilt, and she is still not healed at the wound site.
She had 22 doctors, scores of nurses, one of the largest operating theatres in the state, had to deliver in a university hospital setting, and was told to say goodbye to her other children and for her husband to make arrangements.
She was in a medically induced state of unconsciousness for several days after surgery.
It was like a nightmare that kept getting worse and worse.
If you don’t want to say it, I will. You’re overexposed. Please go away.
Seriously. TMI!!! No one needs to know this much about the wonders of your womb.
I suppose it’s informative to others with a similar situation. Living without a uterus isn’t too bad as long as you can keep one or both ovaries to produce estrogen. Otherwise, it means going on hormone therapy and she’s a little young for that to be an optimum alternative.
Again. This over and over again.
Thank you!!! EXACTLY what I thought when I read that!! 😂😂😂
In the DM pics of her boarding the yacht (for the party), her ‘bump’ mysteriously moves and changes shape. The camera flash also highlights a LOT of straps and lines under her dress. Hmmm ….
Kylie is starting to resemble my jersey cows – they all have big eyes and lashes like her, and their mouths aren’t that far off either!
Jersey cows are so cute omg. And the restraint I had to not type that in caps was large!
There was a picture taken not too long ago which exposed her belly. She’s pregnant.
She is most definitely pregnant. All the photos I’ve seen of her, the bikini shots in St. Barts, the stretchy dresses. Nothing is being hidden. There are no straps. I’m surprised people are still trying to say she’s faking it when it’s so obvious she isn’t.
cos bumps don’t change shape during pregnancy ever….
Kylie looks like the fish in Shark Tales (?). She really needs to stop with the fillers.
This actually made be feel bad for Kim. No one should be fat/body shamed, even if she stuffs herself in her clothing and looks like sausage in casing.
Hahaha!
She really does resemble the Angel fish. Fun fact Angelina Jolie was the voice of fish whose name was Angie as well…
I was just about to say that….I can’t even find Kim as beautiful, or beautiful at all, because she looks like a fish. A goldfish.
A goldfish with lip implants.
She completely destroyed her natural beauty :(.
Kylie looks absolutely **ridiculous** with those oversized lips! It’s been said before, she looks like a Bratz doll! I HATED those damn ugly things! 😠
Kylie’s lips in the last pic…..what in heavens in going on there? She’s barely turned 18 and is unrecognizable from a year or two ago.
I can’t believe she is 18. She looks so hard.
+1 and +1
She makes Kim’s face look almost normal in comparison.
I have been looking at Kim vs. Kylie for some time. The “Original Kim” from seasons 1. – 3 KUWK she has a bigger nose, then she had a nose job. However when you see Kim in any season when she is not wearing makeup her face is beautiful. She wears more makeup then a clown. Her best feature is her eyes, just natural. Kylie can have all the surgery and makeup and comes very close to a Kim 2.0 and she has a much better body then Kim right now but no way her eyes make her a true beauty vs Kim who if she would just let herself be natural, shines through.
It is heartbreaking how she was treated. I also gained 50 Lb while pregnant and I couldn’t imagine how hard it would have been if people were calling me fat and scrutinizing my body.
That said, does anyone else find it odd how she talks as though her life began when she got with Kanye? The whole “I was just learning about clothes” thing? Like, didn’t you live for decades without him? Strikes me as odd.
It was the first time she explored couture, I think that’s what she means. Before she was mostly wearing mid-range brands, so to go from that to fittings with major fashion houses is a bit of a learning curve.
When you make your living off of your body it’s going to bring criticism good or bad even when you are pregnant. Kim stuffed herself in to clothes that were five sizes too small,did as many pap walks as she could, she discussed her weight quite a bit so people commented and don’t forget she loved the fact (good or bad) that people were paying attention to her. All press is good press to the Ks. So while shaming pregnant women is horrible we can’t say she wasn’t out there trying to get the attention either. Daily Paps walks? Not necessary to sustain life.
MY thoughts, your words–thank you!
she forces herself to be a sex symbol in a sausage dress and then complains when the public laughs. She is ridicilous and no way near a normal/chic dressed pregant lady.
But how she dresses is her choice. Regardless of what she wears, there is still no need to fat shame a pregnant woman. Kind of shocking to see the comments ridiculing her body on here.
Pregnant women put on weight. We all know that. Again, she has confused fat shaming with our comments on how horrible she dresses (even prior to her pregnancy).
For someone who thinks her and her husband are fashionistas, they have to expect the backlash on how they both dress.
The woman wants people to comment on her dress, body, her level of sexiness, mere presence. You aggressively court scrutiny to remain valid in mainstream culture and then balk at fat shaming? People do not go around fat shaming any ‘ole pregnant woman walking down the street. Not done. Actually we may call them cute…and they are. But not Kim. Vapid, greedy, slore!
Agree @Sabrine. My God no matter what she says people crucify her. She’s just talking about her own experience. Angelina Jolie took out a full page ad about her situation/surgery and everyone praised her. If you want to go down the TMI road, I felt like I was in the surgery with Angelina. Support women. We are all different, but can all learn from each other. No need to rip her up because of clothes and weight gain.
you did NOT just compare (public responses to )Angelina Jolie to Kim Kardashian.
She gained more than 50 lb. WAY more than 50 pounds!!!
And when you put yourself out there intentionally wearing what she does, having a reality show and their own bought papparazzi everywhere they go? Fair game for comments, good OR bad!
The only ‘talent’ Kim has ever shown is her body pregnant or not. She has learned no skills nor attained any education beyond focussing on herself. Her pregnancy was not the reason for the comments. This woman simply enjoys exposing as much of her body as often as possible. It doesn’t matter if she is pregnant, who the designer or stylist she has access to or how much money Kim spends. Her personal style says I am cheap and taste free.
Kylie looks Kim’s age.
I liked this interview better than most of hers. She’s delusional, but she explains it better than she use to.
You know when you’re just starting out drawing and you draw the same face/body type over and over again?
It’s like their plastic surgeons can only make one face.
That’s it!! I was thinking, good grief they all are starting to look alike…. But of course, you are right. Brilliant!
Blue Steel, Le Tigre … they are working on her Magnum.
For once I actually think she’s talking about a genuine issue here. Women gain weight during pregnancy, everyone carries it differently and takes varying amounts of time to lose it. I can’t imagine being under the pressure a celeb is under to look perfect the second they drop.
Now I must bleach my brain for sympathising with a kardashian.
No, I think your instincts are right. I felt for her when she was talking about the weight gain thing. Nobody deserves to be humiliated for their weight at any time, but especially when they’re pregnant.
I think her job is to be humiliated. That’s the MO for almost all reality stars (and these days, for politicians as well). It’s a formula — they do awful and exaggerated things to be noticed. She wears awful clothes and has butchered her body to be famous. She takes humiliating nude photos to be famous. She humiliates herself with her 72-day marriage and her childish behavior toward her family members to be famous. It’s just a product people are harping about.
Meh, I can sympathize with the body-shaming aspect (I am a similar height and shape to Kim K. and get enormous when pregnant, no matter what I eat or how much I exercise). But I think many people were making fun of the concept of these shoes on swollen feet http://blogs.babycenter.com/celebrities/05182013-ouch-pregnant-kim-kardashian-sacrifices-comfort-for-style/
Nah,
It wasn’t just about the shoes. They were calling her a whale and a pig long before that. The comments were very mean spirited and unkind throughout the majority of her pregnancy. Same goes for this time around too.
@Josephine
+ 100,000,000,000,000,000
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@Josephine
+ 100,000,000,000,000,000
1. Why should being on a reality show earn anyone respect?
2. I think she’s probably too dumb to realize how much her mother controls and manipulates everything and everyone.
3. I have no sympathy for her in any way regarding paparazzi and attention, she courts it all herself and purposefully does things to create headlines.
4. Kylie’s face…dear God.
I totally agree.
Yes to everything! And again, she used the word “may” which means when it doesn’t happen she can back track and tell another tall tale.
Why is Kim’s mouth always open for pics?
I think they call it “sparrow face”. Keira Knightly does it all the time. It just looks so stupid.
She just looks like a blowup doll. 😉
Maybe Kim’s mouth is always open because her nose job(s) have turned her into a mouth breather.
Also, I guess “Fame Wh*re” is not an accepted profession to Customs officials.
Going to the doctor at 5 AM sounds more like egg harvesting since the embryo was grown in a dish long enough to determine the sex before implantation. North was a surprise but this one is a “designer” baby. However, I do hope Kim avoids severe complications and she and her baby are healthy.
practising for the time when she will only be able to live under water. should practise hard because she may be a floater…silicone, injectables and all.
she went to the doctor at 5 am every morning….yet not a picture of her doing so….c’mon kim we all know you photograph everything…no selfies with the doctor?
The same thought occurred to me. I have a family member who is a hypochondriac, and I just never know when to believe which stories. I feel the same way about Kim. It’s hard to believe she wouldn’t have mentioned this already.
Yes, she’s such a liar that it all could be fiction for all we know. She wasn’t trying for more than a year and there are good reasons to doubt her doctor-tested ovulation monitoring story. Or that she would even get up early enough, she had a night nurse for Nori because she needs a lot of beauty sleep. There were previous inconsistencies in her stories about her placenta problem also (maybe she’s consulted with someone medically knowledgeable to come up with a more convincing version this time? Haven’t tried to analyze it.)
And I thought her story was that she doesn’t smile because it causes wrinkles? So now it’s because she was criticized a couple of years ago for stuffing herself into tiny clothes? We are supposed to believe that this woman, who lives for the camera and shows off her naked or nearly naked body at every opportunity, is not smiling for those cameras because of past criticism?!?
Kim’s problem is not that she’s a sensitive soul or everybody unfairly criticized her but that she’s a pathological liar. Even her family has complained about that. So nobody can really tell when she is just lying as usual, partially lying with a dash of truth, or actually uncharacteristically telling the whole truth. Her whole life is scripted and everything she says has an ulterior purpose. No one has any good reason to trust a word she says.
5 am? Really? What time would her glam squad have to get up to plaster on her face? Agree, she would have mentioned this by now. After all nothing is private in the Kardashian world, except the dirt they don’t want made public. Rooting for Rob to one day spill the beans. That will be an interesting read.
I’m also giving this whole story the side-eye. The K’s lie about everything, always. At this point their lives are manufactured by the “reality” show instead of the other way around! Nothing is authentic, ever.
I think she is getting her tubes tied.
Maybe. I’m wondering if all this is actually aimed at Kanye, so he won’t pressure her for another try if there is anything “not perfect” about this baby.
I can not stand this hefer – Seriously her job is nothing – having a sex tape is what started for you, classy. Motherhood hasnt changed her – she STILL spends more time worrying about her looks and weight -makeup, clothes, selfies, plastic surgery, getting pap- than she does being a parent. She is all about herself so delusional. Just shut up and go away!
First off: a year is not a long time to get pregnant. And going to the doctor to see if you’re ovulating? There are little pee-on sticks you can use at home. So cut the drama.
I never had issues with her gaining weight, just the clothes she insists on shooting herself into. She just looked horrible.
So much this! The only reason she’d be going to the doctor to check for ovulation is if she was going to have IVF. I did IUIs and just had to pee in a stick at home once a day to find out when I was ovulating. Infertility is hard – I’ve been there. But just taking a year to get pregnant is not the same thing as dealing with infertility. So much drama.
They also have other devices, that look like watches that can tell when you’re ovulating now, I believe. And my doctors always told me that a year was average. I truly sympathize with anyone going through fertility issues, but she is such a drama queen you never know what’s true.
The average is in fact 4 months. If you cannot conceive after a year of TTC then you need to go for further assistance.
She has lied repeatedly about her health and fertility. It would not surprise me at all of this was fake as well.
Have you seen Kylies lips without the lipstick/gloss they look gross, like you can see the chemicals in them, like two raw sausages.
Lately Kylie’s lips have looked disgusting. The raw sausage comparison is spot on.
Maybe It’s pregnancy lips and Kylie is expecting triplets?
I also think they look very unfortunate, and I worry about long term use of all those fillers etc. Does the skin stretch out so that the fillers have to be used permanently? Kylie was a naturally pretty girl, but that is not the standard of beauty in K-world. Now all I can see is raw sausage!!
@Giddy – Yes, fillers do stretch the skin when the lips are blown up bigger than they should be. I just saw a pic of Kylie’s mouth pre-lip injections and her lips are naturally tiny so I do think she caused permanent damage to them by going so tremendously big. Her small lips are not naturally meant to hold all of the crap she is injecting into them. When she first got her lips done, they were subtle and still fit her face, but now they’re about 50 times bigger than they should be. I saw on the TV show “Botched,” which actually airs on E Network, one of the plastic surgeons told someone that when you go too large with lip injections, the filler will actually leak out of the sides of your mouth and the lips have to be kept moisturized constantly because they’re so overextended that they just totally dry out. Judging by the fact that her lips look like she was attacked by a swarm of hornets and had an allergic reaction, I’m going to guess that her trout pout is an absolute mess behind closed doors. I’ve seen pictures and video of her mouth with no makeup on and she looks terrible–she has had work done to her face that has made her look freakish unless she is totally made up. I find her to be so tragic.
The black and white cover is stunning, but had I seen it without knowing who the woman was, I would have thought she was black.
I think that is the look she is going for. Wishful thinking on her part.
Question for you ladies who’ve been pregnant: my doctor wants me to gain 20-25 pounds. I was just barely into the overweight category before I got pregnant. Is it possible to stay within a weight range if you’re careful about what you eat and you exercise, or are you genetically programmed to gain a certain about of weight when pregnant?
Probably better to listen to the advice of your Doctor rather than random people online. Your Dr knows your medical history, no-one online does. Having been pregnant doesn’t make you qualified to speak about gestational weight gain or nutrition just as having been in a plane doesn’t make you qualified to teach someone how to pilot one.
Let me clarify my statement: my doctor didn’t give me a weight range to begin with. She told me to eat healthy & keep exercising. When I told her that I deal with very disordered eating patterns & can get obsessed about weighing myself, she gave me this range & we agreed I would only weight myself at her office & never look at the scale. And she’d tell me if weight became an issue.
Obviously, I’m listening to my doctor. But I am curious about other women’s experiences. I’ve never been pregnant before, so I thought I’d ask other pregnant ladies.
Congrats on your pregnancy, hope you have a healthy and un-eventful pregnancy and birth!
I honestly don’t think genetics really matter for pregnancy weight gain, although they do for overall weight in general. Exercise is good, obviously, and staying in shape will make everything easier, including getting back in shape post partum – whatever your doc and trainer think is suitable for your age, general health, etc.
I think being careful what you eat matters but if end up feeling hungry all the time, even healthy food will add weight. Your doc is recommending the standard healthy pregnancy gain. I put on about 32 lbs, had minimal morning sickness but overall faint nausea constantly… Could barely eat breakfast, which is normally a very important meal for me, but would get hungry at odd times – 10:00 pm was the worst. I would be half asleep then the little guy would start kicking and there I was, raiding the fridge. Tried to keep it relatively healthy but when you crave a ham and cheese sandwich, carrots don’t cut it:-)
Whatever weight you put on, please don’t worry about that constantly. The important thing is to be healthy, and for your baby to be healthy. (If the weight gain is massive and your doc warns you about complications, that’s different… But otherwise, this is not the time to worry about your jeans size.)
I am currently pregnant. With first i gained #28 , and second baby #24. I do weigh myself nearly daily mainly because I am not a good dieter and find it easier to stay on top of things that way. Neither prior pregnancy did I find it difficult to stay in that range. MY mindset was just to eat healthfully and not focus on eating for two so to speak. Hardly ever a soda ( which I do have a bit normally ). And if I REALLY wanted something I would usually have it. I hope it works out this time too! And good luck to you! You can do it!
Your doctor sounds pretty awesome, actually. I have had more than one doc, and almost all the nurses, congratulate me on LOSING weight while pregnant. I should note I’m firmly in the ‘normal’ weight range, not overweight, and I was so sick, and throwing up so much I would lose 15-30 pounds over the first 7 months of each pregnancy. Please do not do that, it is not fucking healthy. I am actually pregnant for the fourth time right now, and not throwing up, and it doesn’t even feel like I’m gestating.
That is horrible! I remember when I lost 23 pounds during cancer treatment & everyone complimented me on it. I looked sallow with huge dark circles, but hey – I was skinny! I even had someone ask me how I lost so much weight so quickly. I loved the look on their face when I said “Cancer! If you get it, you too can puke constantly for seven weeks straight & lose 23 pounds!”
Our view of women & the bodies in this country is so FUBARed.
My doctors had said 25-30 was the ideal weight gain but everyone and every pregnancy is different. With my first I put on 32, but my second was a whopping 65! It made everything more difficult especially in the third trimester. Walking, climbing stairs, everything became taxing. Losing it was hard to say the least. You and your doctor know your body better than anyone so follow her advice. Good luck to you and best wishes for a healthy baby. 🙂
Thanks ladies – you all are fantastic. Obviously, I’m going to listen to my doctor, but hearing from other moms is very comforting. I didn’t gain any weight during my first trimester because of nausea (thank god for diclegis), but you wouldn’t have known it looking at me. I bloated up like a tick! 😃 I’m 18 weeks tomorrow & the nausea is almost gone. Now if I could quit feeling so exhausted all the time!
@Cleo, if you think you’re exhausted now wait til the little one arrives LOL. Take advantage of some down time now and get a nap in when you can. Those will become a rarity in the future. It’ll all work out, so don’t stress over it too much. You are going to find out what true unconditional love is, and the love you have for your child will be like none you’ve ever experienced. It’s a very exciting and wonderful time!
I think its mostly genetically decided but at the same time if you dont work for a fit pregnancy body then you wont have one. I know women who gained 50+ lbs and dropped it pretty easy after the pregnancy and then there was me who gained 15 lbs the first time and 18lbs the next time and then there are friends who gained 30 lbs and kept it on.
Basically what I am saying is that depending on how some women’s body’s do pregnancy it might be normal for you to gain 30+ lbs, or it might be normal to get by with almost no weight gain. The reason why doctors give you a basic range is because they’re basing it on the actual pregnancy (uterus, blood volume, placenta, baby, fluids etc) and not on actual fat stores. Those numbers dont really change from woman to woman with the exception of multiples or fluid gains.
Since you said you were pretty much overweight before the pregnancy I dont think you’d need to put on any fat stores that someone who is at a very low body fat percentage would need to. I hope that doesnt sound insulting because that’s just fact. However, I do think pregnancy cravings and general increase in hunger is the body’s way of asking for more nutrients so dont restrict yourself or try to lose weight. You’re bound to feel hungrier than normal in the last month or two.
If you are concerned about weight gain you need to eat properly and exercise, nothing magical happens in pregnancy that causes women to gain weight and keep it on for life. What you put into your body and what you expend still applies. Good luck!
Unless you’re really making a heroic effort either way, you’ll gain what you gain. I started out way overweight with my second and gained a total of five pounds (nine and a half of which was baby); my OBs were thrilled. Just take excellent care of yourself – fruits, veg, protein with occasional treats and exercise – and the weight takes care of itself.
I got pregnant at about 165, for my height that is barely overweight. My doc said not to gain anything once I hit 172. I thought it was odd.. But this is my 3rd pregnancy. The baby is fine and I eat healthily and until I am satisfied at meals. I then try to eat a 200 cal snack as recommended by ACOG. All doctors have their own weird issues and concerns about your weight. If you are otherwise heathy, not anemic, and not underweight I’d just make sure you’re getting 3 healthy meals + a snack or two and enjoy life.
CLEO your doctor sounds pretty great. Eat healthy and don’t even think about your weight unless she tells you to.
Are you planning to breastfeed? I gained a ton of weight and my husband told me I looked like a milk truck after I gave birth. But nursing uses up a lot of calories. Eventually I got thin again, just in time for child #2.
When I fell pregnant I was classified as Obese and my Dr advised to only gain 10kg which would be the baby, placenta, extra blood body produces etc. Most of my weight gain was in the 3rd trimester. Listen to your Dr and your body and don’t fall into the trap of eating for two. Enjoy this amazing time and go to the toilet alone while you can.
Cleo, I SO know what you mean about the whole FUBAR view on weight loss. A few years ago, my man walked out after almost a decade together and I was completely devastated. I lost about twenty pounds and was almost skeletal. People couldn’t stop complimenting me! One friend was like, “I’m so jealous. If I could get that skinny, I could finally be happy.” And I was like, “I lost all this weight because I’m miserable and food doesn’t even appeal to me right now. Trust me, I’d rather have some weight back and be happy!”.
She says the most contradictory things. A perfumer, an author, then a reality star? Also the not smiling thing, Kayne said before that he doesn’t smile for photos because in the old paintings, nobody smiled.. and I am sure that he told Kim not to smile either.
But I don’t agree with people calling her a cow (even on Celebitcby) or Heffer. Body shaming a pregnant woman is just not right.
Nearly wet myself at the ‘author’ tag. Like Kanye’s now Achieved ‘Doctor’ status. No sense of irony at all, these people.
And I would add that she doesn’t smile in photos any more because she no longer CAN smile fully due to all the fillers. She looks odd crying, too. In fact, trying to make any kind of facial expression makes her look weird. She used to have a beautiful smile, sadly. Imagine having so much work done that you can no longer express joy with your face. All the work that these people get done on their faces – it’s as though they’re creating masks that put their neuroses and mental illnesses on display for all to see.
Fair enough. My point is, the reason for her not smiling is not what she says it is. Could be plastic surgery, whatever. She lies, the whole family lies all the time.
I’ve never known anybody who had any trouble explaining what they do for a living, as long as it was legal and not working as a spy. Kim keeps busy going hither and yon, but doesn’t seem to really be involved enough in the real work to know what exactly she does other than follow orders to go hither and yon. That’s why she’s not sure how to describe herself. And “entrepreneur” doesn’t match at all.
Kylie and Khloe have the same problem, I would expect. They were all born rich and have no formal preparation for any particular occupation, and that certainly affects their lack of a sense of what exactly they do to bring money in other than breathe in and out. Bet Demon Mother has no trouble describing what she does.
They are reality stars. From that fame they created some clothes, perfumes and books (ghost written).
They just put their name to product lines. They aren’t designers or perfumers etc. They can call themselves models, though.
I’ve said this before on this website, but this is actually the thing that bothers me most about these women: their incessant need to take credit for things that they DON’T do themselves. Perfumer? I guess that means Kim spends a lot of time in the lab mixing up scents to create the perfumes herself. Author? Right, because I’m sure she spent many sleepless nights writing her own book.
The only member of the family who actually ever showed any real interest in doing hands-on work was Kourtney, who was the one who manned the Dash store before it became a chain and she was actually the buyer for the clothing they carried, and it’s still something she is very much involved in. Khloe and Kim flit around on pap strolls and take credit for what other people do.
Kim obviously did not write her own book, she dictated some stuff to a ghost writer who was the person who took the time and made the effort to make it all legible and comprehensible. Kim gave the final OK on a scent that she liked that was made for her by real perfumers and she traveled around promoting the fragrance with her name on it. Kim takes credit for the app she has out when the only thing she has contributed to it is her name, likeness and voice.
If anything, she can refer to herself as a PROMOTER because that is what she does–self promotes. She has zero skills and isn’t doing anything personally, she has people doing all the work for her and she never gives anyone else any credit and has the audacity to want to pontificate on how to be a success and brag about all of her accomplishments. There are legions of people working night and day so that this troll can rake in money and she selfishly never publicly acknowledges that. Kim and Khloe are always talking about their oh so wonderful work ethic when all they do is promote product that they lend their name to after other people did all the hard work.
here’s the thing, and I know this might be controversial but whatever; she had one kid. I don’t get women who go mental to have a second whenever they already managed to have a healthy one, and they’re much luckier than many. I can understand the desire, I don’t get why you’d go through so much stress to put on your body whenever you could adopt or have a surrogate. it’s beyond me.
I agree with you, but I have two thoughts. It’s very important to some people for their children to have siblings, and it’s very important to some people (cough) that their children have their genius and beauty genes. Why they didn’t use a surrogate, I can’t say. I thought they would.
Here’s our family’s take on it: both my hubby and I have siblings and we love them dearly, are close to them, and always wanted our child to have one brother or sister. When health issues closed that door for us, we considered adoption but in addition to the cost and time, we would never qualify because part of any adoption application includes a health check. I wouldn’t pass. As for surrogacy, that may be something the rich can afford, but it was not doable for us. As this debate was analyzed in depth on yesterday’s Dylan post, not all of us feel that traveling to a poor country and renting a poor woman’s womb is ethical… And in NA, unless a friend or relative is willing to do it for free, the cost is pretty high.
So we have only the one child, and of course we are happy to have him, but every time he tells us how much he would have liked to have a sibling, it breaks our hearts a little. Does that make sense?
It’s tough to want something for your child that you had and enjoy, I can sympathize. My parents also couldn’t have any more children after me. They embraced my best friend (starting in 1st grade) and always welcomed her to our house, inviting her on family trips, so she became like a sibling. I took it for granted at the time but so appreciate it in retrospect– there’s someone I have a shared childhood with, that bond of all those memories.
Also, sometimes with kids you can’t win. My oldest child commented for years that she wanted an older sibling, not a younger one!
Siblings aren’t always the greatest thing since sliced bread. Took me many years to get past the crap my older brother said to me. He also affected my eating because there was never anything good left once he started plowing through it. Decades later, still have to keep reminding myself that I don’t have to eat it all at once, it will be there tomorrow… Maybe things are different in less dysfunctional families, but siblings can do a lot of damage even if they grow up to be decent. And sometimes siblings just don’t like each other much for other reasons, they’re thrown in together regardless.
jwoolman, that sounds terrible. I am so sorry your relationship with your brother was bad as a child, I can only hope that it is better now?
My brother is my biggest supporter, close friend and has been there for me through a lot – his support is unwavering. Don’t know what I would have done without him. I wanted that for my child, and seeing the relationship I have with my brother, whom he adores, my son really wanted that too. We just spent three weeks visiting with my brother and his family and we’ll miss them like crazy until next year. The only silver lining is that my brother also has one child too and we hope that as they grow, my son and his daughter will be close and able to rely on one another the way we do. I guess we were fortunate, and the fact that I begged my parents for a sibling and I cherished him from day one also helped. We never were jealous of one another, and we were always supporting each other. I guess I never imagined a different scenario.
Vauvert – in my family’s case, by puberty my brother did have undiagnosed bipolar (really unipolar in his case, on the depression side), which can make people very irritable. I felt like I had to walk on eggshells around him and never knew if he would be the nice guy or the not nice guy, he was unpredictably moody. So medication helped him a lot when finally diagnosed in his 30s although he still seems moody to me, I still have to be on high alert when talking with him but he is no longer abusive. He’s a good person, generous and honest, but has never really dealt with problems that arose from trying to deal with the disorder on his own, and that affects his interpersonal relationships with me and others on his life. I could not handle having to live with him again. It would be too stressful.
But I really blame my mother, who was a very nice person but thought the way to deal with conflict is to pretend it isn’t there. Didn’t work with her husband and didn’t work with my brother. She never told him to stop the verbal abuse (which he also directed at her as he grew older), she never put restraints on his eating as though he was the only one in the house. A person doesn’t have to be screaming obscenities to be abusive, so parents have to pay attention to the words. I’m always astonished at how often nice parents allow their children to be abusive to siblings, as though that’s normal. It isn’t normal and it is very damaging. Parents need to stop that behavior as soon as it arises. The attacked sibling needs to be taught how to deal with the attacks without being damaged and the attacking sibling needs to be actively taught how to stop being an abuser and that such abuse is not tolerated (and get medical attention if the behavior continues, because it is simply not normal). A very important thing to do is to let the target know that they don’t deserve to be a target and that the abuser’s behavior is wrong – this is true at every level, inside and outside the family, even if you don’t know what to say or do at the time of the abuse. Verbal abuse tends to have longer term effects than even physical abuse, whether coming from a parent or a sibling, because humans are linguistic animals. Language matters, words matter. Negative words aimed at a child embed themselves into the child’s view of himself or herself, especially when coming from someone important like a parent or older sibling. And kids do pick up behaviors from people around them – my brother definitely was imitating his father, who had the same problems, and as the firstborn my brother was the target of dear old dad’s crap. (He was a buffer for me.) Our mother never stopped dear old dad from doing such things either. She would have protected us if he was throwing us down the stairs, but was oblivious to other types of damage even though her parents were gentle folk. I remember as a fairly young child getting angry with dear old dad for the nasty things he would say to my brother, which didn’t endear me to dear old dad. I decided adults were unreliable by the age of five, which actually was helpful when dealing with “girls don’t do that” as my interest in science grew…
We teach children how to tie their shoes, we also need to teach them how to deal with conflict without resorting to abusive behavior. This is also a cultural problem, judging from the way families are portrayed on TV. Children definitely can pick up abusive patterns just from watching other kids on TV (shows and commercials) or in the movies, where such behavior in the family or in school is treated as normal and “funny”. Life is tough enough, children deserve an emotionally and physically safe atmosphere at least in their own home. That is what makes them strong as adults, abuse at any level weakens them.
it kinda makes sense. probably there’s no point in generalising, because not everyone have the same options. either way, kim k is very rich and could EASILY afford a surrogate instead of having to put herself through martyrdom.
also, as others have pointed out, the whole sibling thing doesn’t necessarily always work. I for instance am very close to my sisters, but I know plenty of people- and I’m not talking dysfunctional families or people with mental disorders, just regular folks- who feel rather indifferent to their sibling as in they of course love them but they’re most definitely not friends, or have been growing up treated quite differently (which is also very normal) and never managed to be quite close. You can never know if your good experience will be your children’s.
I suppose having seen family struggling to have one child and never being able to, I can’t really relate to the sibling situation.
Maybe it was very important for Kanye as an only child to give North a sibling. And with Kim being from a large family, that would be the normal way of life for her. I don’t see anything wrong with them wanting another child quickly.
Kim has made it clear that Kanye wanted a son. If baby #2 was a girl, she said they would keep trying until Kanye got his boy. That’s what all this nonsense about fertility problems is about – a cover for gender selection so she doesn’t have to ever be pregnant again. If Nori had been a boy, I doubt that Kim would even think of going through another pregnancy. Even the thought of double the child support money when they split wouldn’t have enticed her – pregnancy is too hard on her body and it will be harder to recover the older she gets. She has pretty stringent requirements for that body.
I doubt very much that any desire for Nori to have a sibling was part of the plan. They aren’t exactly overwhelmingly focused on the kid they already have. They’ll just hire more nannies.
See the Rosie O’Donnell story as to why some people don’t want to adopt. There are no easy answers when you are infertile — or when you’re a parent, really.
oh please, because dysfunctional teens only happen when you adopt them, right? I don’t understand your point.
Don’t take this the wrong way, ell, but as an involuntarily childless person, there is nothing more annoying than hearing things like, “You can always adopt or use a gestational carrier. Or be a foster parent! There are lots of ways to be involved in a child’s life.”
I am not an idiot. I know my options. But it sounds incredibly patronizing hearing these things from people who aren’t in my shoes and never will be.
I know your comment referred to a slightly different situation (namely women who have already experienced a pregnancy resulting in a healthy child), but I wanted to point out how (often) unintentionally irksome statements like these can be.
I’d never say something like that to someone who never got to have children at all, in fact I made a point of saying I’m talking about people who already got to have a healthy child naturally.
I totally get the pain of not being able to have ANY child. I haven’t been there myself, but I’ve had close family in this situation so I know how painful it can be. And it’s also the reason why I find it off putting; if someone has already been that lucky to manage to have one healthy natural child, you should try and be happy.
I like the editorial, it’s ok, Kim is naked, nothing new.
About her lips, I don’t know, of all of Kim’s fake stuff (89% of her body) I never thought the lips were fake. I was just now googling before and after pics, and the youngest pics of her i see she always had full lips, nothing like Kylie Jenner. I think the way to see if they are real is when they have a kind of texture to them. Kylie’s and Khloe’s lips are all round and soft without texture, and so obviously fake, while Kim’s lips always look more or less the same, maybe different on the contouring to add volume and whatnot.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think she puts fillers on her lips, or at least not now. Her sisters, on the other had… can’t lay off the stuff. And maybe her lips are bigger now with pregnancy. it happens, like with the nose.
just my 2 cents..
What is C magazine? It shows up free at my parents’ house, otherwise I’d never see it, but they always have celebrities on their cover, and usually accompanying interviews. Is it an LA thing?
Speaking of which there was an article on the LA times yesterday about a party that Kourtney (I think) had where she fireworks went off at midnight on a weekday. The neighbors were terrified, thinking the airport was under attack, and something like 40 people called 911. Even the coast guard seemed defensive in the article, which didn’t totally make sense…
What I don’t understand and maybe someone can explain it more is if a hole was created in her uterus how is she told she can be pregnant? Bear with me. First is the hole all the way through? How tiny is it? I ask this because my daughter has a sister in law who had a window in her uterus (an area of the uterus so thin you can see through it). She was told she should not get pregnant again because of the serious complications. So to me having a hole in her uterus would not allow Kim to get pregnant. I also believe most people criticized her fashion choices last time and not her weight. And I still don’t believe she had preeclampsia last time because she continued to travel and go out almost every day. Most women with preeclampsia are told to stay off their feet or are put on bed rest.
I think she did have PE. I had a severe case myself. As soon as I saw a picture of Kim near the end of her pregnancy looking so puffy (and I don’t follow her closely at all), I held up the picture to my husband and said “she has PE”. I nearly tweeted at her to go see a doctor and check her BP stat.
But were you able to travel and go out every day or did you have to keep your feet up as much as possible or even bed rest? I ask because with my first pregnancy my blood pressure started to rise (not yet PE) and my doctor told me to stay off my feet as much as possible. Luckily it was summer, I was a teacher and could put my feet up. I wasn’t allowed to go watch my softball team play games (cried every time my husband, who was the manager, left for a game). Just saying it seems odd that she was not restricted in some way as far as being on her feet. Let me also say I did not have the same problem with my other two pregnancies so she may not have that problem this time also.
She’s probably picking up stuff about real conditions and weaving it into a story for herself. When she first talked about the placenta problem, people were wondering how she was still alive if it happened the way she claimed, on the timeline she claimed. She counts on people not knowing enough and not bothering to google a bit. Also people have a hard time understanding why she would lie about it, unless they have had unfortunate personal encounters with a pathological liar as I have.
I had PE. I was otherwise healthy, so I was just told to keep monitoring my blood pressure regularly. When it got too high for comfort, they induced.
They do things so differently now – my oldest is 35 and I really felt great at the time as all my pregnancies were pretty much problem free! So that is why I asked the question. Kim said she was uncomfortable the last pregnancy so maybe she shouldn’t have been up and about so much.
Dare I say it? I feel for her if she gets a hysterectomy. Phew, that’s the extent of any empathy I feel for her.
BUT, for the life of me I still cannot see how she’s attractive, and it’s not hating, it’s truth. I do not find her or her sisters attractive. They’re not ugly, but they’re also not attractive IMO
Agreed. Having a hysterectomy is hard. Thing is, I think she is lying about this.
She will probably come up with a story about how she narrowly escaped having to have a hysterectomy. I’m sure if she really does, she will keep her ovaries to avoid menopause. But a hysterectomy causes other problems because other organs lose natural support, and I doubt she would have gotten pregnant if that were honestly a possibility. She could pay for a surrogate.
Who asks her , ” what she does …” For a living
Omg
I read that as her talking about filling out customs forms.
She looks so deformed in the face. I don’t feel bad for people that want to be famous so badly for NOTHING But what they look like and then get upset when they are judged for their appearance? I say judge away…she’s getting what she deserves. She’s made millions off of this……
Sorry but the cover is awful. Also, someone explain it to me, what kind of respect should a reality show have? Theirs then, lol, please.
As for the pregnant lips… wtf? This is like Kylie’s “my whole figure and face changed because.. puberty!”… yeah, sure. Kylie looks ridiculous now, I feel sorry for her.
Post party hemorrhage is scary. I had it, and my BP dropped to 50/30. I ended up getting six packs of blood / blood products. My uterus was saved. Since then (five years ago), I have heard of at least four women dying from it. I didn’t have any warning signs – I had a normal healthy twin pregnancy.
I can understand her being cautious.
Those lips aren’t jacked, noooo, not at all! Why doesn’t this vapid wonder have so many millions of followers? Why? How sad.
Sex on the ovulation schedule: “Yes, it takes the fun out of it. I’m like, “I’m ovulating, get home now!” He’d be like, “Wait, I’m in the studio.”
Isn’t it more like “I’m with Ricardo, do we really have to do this now?”
They really weren’t in the same place at the same time often enough to seriously be worrying about her ovulation schedule.
And Kim needs 8-10 hours sleep. Was she getting up at 3-4 am for a 5am appointment? And going to bed at 5-6pm? Do doctor’s offices really open up that early? She didn’t say she went to a hospital for it. I’m sure she could afford the latest gadgets for detecting ovulation, though. The testing can be quite sensitive and quite portable.
Don’t forget hair time, and the time it takes to spackle that mask on her face.
Vapid woman. ugh!
I feel for her with her fertility issues. I’ve never attempted to get pregnant, but that is a personal fear of mine–being infertile or having difficulties with getting pregnant.
She’s delusional if she honestly thinks the criticism she got while pregnant with North was over her size. I mean there are assh-les who do mock her and other pregnant women, but Kim was mocked for being completely ridiculous in her wardrobe choices. For example, the world will never forget her swollen feet in those clear plastic heels. She does stupid sh-t and then tries to rewrite history as if she’s some sort of victim being unfairly picked on. A lot less people would mock her while pregnant if she could chill out and stop trying to be sexy 24/7.
I’m sure she has her fans and I know my opinion means little, but I’m so done with this family and my feelings on that will never change. I will never respect Kim after seeing an episode of their show where she carried on about how stretch marks are what she fears most in life. She’s such a pathetic, vapid, delusional human being. Her ass looks like a dirty diaper, but stretch marks, which most women develop as young girls and cannot help, are Kim’s “biggest fear in life.”
If she ever bothered to watch or read the news of the world she would know the horrors that occur daily and realize how shallow she is. But that will never happen, her self-indulgent narcissism won’t allow it. It must be something to live in a bubble like that where everything is about you, your hair, your make up, your clothes and your endless selfies. That’s not a life, it’s an existence as plastic and empty as the look on her face.
As for your own fears, please don’t worry yourself so much. Chances are you’ll be fine when the time comes for you to start a family. If you should run into trouble there are many options today and never give up hope. A close friend of mine went through years of IVF, tests, meds and procedures. She was at her wits end. She now has an adorable little guy who just turned 1.
Best wishes and hugs to you 🙂
Kim K could take a lesson or two from Canalis when it comes to maternity style.
Another ploy for sympathy, since their ratings are down.
“the difficulty of raising children in today’s social media landscape” … what does that even mean?
like, don’t put your children on social media… or if you make your living through it, and it really bothers you, do something else…
hate that whole “victimhood” narrative from her. i have a hard time feeling sorry for people for things they are whining about when they have 100% chosen those situations.
weird
I can’t believe she and Kanye are still together. Never thought I’d say they’ve turned out to be one of those couples who I feel like they’ve always been together.
Huh. So, Kim was going to a Dr every g.d. 5 a.m. morning to check for high peak egg release? Wut?
And telling her man to get on it, when prime?
How does that happen when hes out of town..out of the country? A turkey baster?
And dont they have kits for home use (, or at least fancy ones thats a house payment every month) for ovalations?
I like how shes spinning her story for the sympathic women who really do have issues.
And as for Kylie, sheesh! That is no fresh faced 18 year old. Thats a cupcake ho.
And shes lying about the impending hysterectomy. Her Dr probably gave her the complications of a c-section, as they are supposed to, and she ran with it. As usual.
Preparing storylines for their show, that’s it.
Who exactly, other than her sisters on the show, was laughing at her swelling during the her first pregnancy? People laughed at her for wearing such tight shoes that had to be uncomfortable (she herself posted pics of the deep indentations left because of the swelling), but not for the swelling itself. She was drawing attention to it herself.
Her memory seems selective or faulty in other ways as well. I remember a lot of snarking about her wearing terribly tight clothing and wondering if it was safe for the baby to be so constricted. And laughing at her peculiar fashion choices in general. Just like when she’s not pregnant. And at her lying about her weight gain. But not really about the weight gain itself except in reference to her refusal to treat her body as an expanding pregnant body and go for comfort- she seemed to be wearing regular crazy clothes in sizes even more too small than usual. She seemed to be in a competition with Kourtney about the exact amount of the weight gain. She was always talking about her weight during that period, not the baby. She claimed once that paps were chasing her while she was driving and that she could have been injured. Her PR might have had a talk with her and then she added as an afterthought that the alleged paps were putting the baby at risk. That was the first time I had even heard her mention the baby, except at one point she was saying she would be glad when this “thing” was out of her. I know she was uncomfortable, but she seemed unusually detached from the baby growing inside her.
About fashion or couture being new territory for her during her first pregnancy – is what Kanye does really considered haute couture? I’m not an expert, but what I saw of his show seemed like something else. And that sofa cover she wore to the Met ball – was that really high fashion?
130 pre-pregnancy my ass. wth??
Her buttocks alone weigh that much.
Pshaw
I am glad she is dressing more casual during her pregnancy. Sucks to hear about all those medical issues though.
Her lips are so ridiculous, she is ruining her face at such a young age. What is confounding is how lovely she was before starting down that road…she could have remained a truly beautiful woman.
If she continues along this path she will irretrievably turn herself into that catwoman, Jocelyn.
I don’t really watch Kim K’s show or agree with her family’s antics…that said I do wish her a healthy, happy pregnancy. She doesn’t deserve body-shaming and I do think…in her own way…she is trying to wear more comfortable clothing and shoes. If that baby boy starts kicking a lot when you put something tight on, Kim, he’s trying to tell you something…listen. Best wishes for an uneventful delivery of your new baby.