Khloe Kardashian has had a relatively quiet year. She’s still part of her family’s reality show and she’s still doing various businesses, but overall, she hasn’t been making much news in 2024. She’s just raising her kids and enjoying being single. 2025 is going to be bigger for Khloe though. She’s launching her new perfume, XO Khloe, and a new podcast. She’s a pod-gal. This is why she agreed to a Bustle cover interview, to take stock of her life now that she’s 40 years old. Some highlights from Bustle:
She doesn’t want to just get paid for wearing anything: “When I first started in this industry, people would be like, ‘Here’s X amount of money if you wear this sweater.’ And I was like, ‘You get paid to wear a sweater?!’ It was such a foreign concept to me and I was so excited. But I don’t just want to promote something that I really don’t stand behind. I could be doing cash grabs all day long if I didn’t have a conscience. I could be on OnlyFans, I could be doing crazy things — but that’s not my thing.”
Turning 40 this year: “When you’re young, you think 40 is so old, and now I’m like, “Wait — I feel so good!” I am in the best shape of my life. I’m doing new career stuff. I’ve only been 40 for about six months, but it’s the absolute best. You don’t give a sh*t about some of the stuff you once did. Intentionally, at 39, I tried to close a lot of chapters. I called it shedding — shedding this decade of my 30s and this energy I wanted to leave behind. There are so many new things that I’m doing in my first year of 40 that I know for a fact my 40s and on are going to be f*cking incredible.
Her new podcast: “The podcast is about my curiosities — all the things I wonder about — but overall I want people to get a positive message. It’s not going to be salacious. I am not going to be gossiping about other people. It’s more the things that I’m into. I love talking about religion or grief or the afterlife or healing and trauma, dating, relationships. It’s all over the place. I’ve recorded two episodes so far — one with Jay Shetty, so it’s so funny you said that — and I recorded one with Scott Disick, my brother-in-law.
Her weight-loss journey: “It is a journey and it is a constant struggle, at least for me….looking back, when I was bigger, I thought I was the hottest thing in the world. I had so much more confidence the bigger I was, which is what’s crazy. And then the more in shape I am, the more insecure I can get because I’m so hard on myself. It’s a vicious cycle that you don’t get out of. But when I started losing weight, I got the same thing. I was fat-shamed every day when I was bigger, and then when I lost weight, people were like, How dare you, you are so insecure, you’re following society. And I’m like, “OK, you guys are so confusing!” I realized you’ll never make everyone happy. I have to do what’s best for me.
A therapist disclosed information about her to a tabloid: “My weight loss journey started because I was getting a divorce. I remember I was going to therapy and the next thing I knew, something private I told my therapist was on a tabloid. And I knew that my therapist disclosed this information to a tabloid because there’s no way this could have gotten out there. So I stopped going to therapy and started going to the gym. I needed a release, but I did not trust anybody else anymore. And the place that I felt the safest was the gym.”
Ten years of workouts: “My body started changing. I loved the way I felt. I loved testing myself and challenging myself. And I’ve been doing it for 10-plus years now, and I love it. Over the past three years, people are like, “You must have gotten surgery because you just lost weight.” I’m like, “It’s been a 10-year journey! What are you talking about?” But even if people get surgery or [get on] the Ozempic craze, I’m like, “Who cares!” As long as people feel good about themselves, who am I to judge? I think it’s ridiculous, the judgment on that. I’m just mad [Ozempic] wasn’t around 10 years ago.
Now she goes to Kim’s therapist: “I do go to therapy now. I started when I was 39. She’s really lovely and I really like her. It’s actually Kim’s therapist. Kim was really adamant. I was like, “I’ll do this for you.” I dragged my feet, and then I was like, “Wow, OK, this is good. I needed this.” And my therapist was like, “I think you should come three days a week.” [Laughs.] She was like, “You really need to be here.” It all worked out.
She’s been single for three years: “Dating has not been a focus for me, and I’ve been single for about three years and love it. I really, really do. But I’m not single and dating. I’m just single. I have such power and strength in that. I’m not lonely. There would be a difference if I was single and lonely: “I really need my partner.” I am single and thriving. I feel like I’m working on myself so much and am getting to such a good place that I just don’t want something to disrupt it. Also, I don’t know if it’s just me, but dating today is very scary. I’m not going to meet someone on social media. I’m not checking my DMs. I’m not!…It’s awful anywhere. I just can’t imagine I would bring a man that I’m dating around my kids. So then where do I go to date you? I’m not going to a restaurant where there’s paparazzi and everyone’s going to say we’re getting married next week. I’m not going to your home because what if you kill me? You’re not coming to my home — I have kids! And I’m not going to a hotel — that’s presumptuous. So I’m like, “What do you do?”
I honestly like what she says about being single? It reminds me of what a lot of women have been trying to tell men these days: men should worry that many women simply prefer being on their own rather than trying to deal with men these days. Men think they can bully and threaten women and call women “childless cat ladies,” but women are increasingly like “wow, the childless cat lady lifestyle is so much better than dealing with men.” I also agree with what she says about weight loss and how people responded to her weight loss. The one thing I’ll say is that while I do think she works out a lot, I think she and Kim are also getting surgery (lipo) and butt lifts and all of that.
Photos courtesy of Khloe’s IG and Bustle.
She’s been single for 3 years? She’s full of it. So she basically used her cheating ex as a donor to have her baby boy? If she really thinks being single is the best thing, good for her because being alone instead of being disrespected in a romantic relationship is always better.
I thought there were ethical lines when it comes to sharing therapist with family.
She’s an Elon Musty collaborator so another strike against her in my book. So gross.
Every few years this family tries to reinvent themselves and pretend they are not users who sold snake oil to women. Nah, we remember. They can all kick bricks.
I like the dark hair much better than the blond hair.
Good interview.
I couldn’t put my finger on who she’s looking like with her most recent face but it suddenly occurred to me – she’s looking like Hailee Steinfeld.
Thank you!
I like what she says about her 40s because I am halfway through my forties and feel the same way (minus the best shape of my life bit). It would be easy to be skeptical because of the Ks’ history, but so many women report a feeling of acceptance and wellbeing in their 40s so I choose to believe she is sincere and hope that doing the work with a therapist brings her to a better place.
I was in the best shape of my life at 40. It’s amazing how young you actually are at that age. With today’s lifespans it’s not even really midlife. But dayum did the mid forties hit me hard. Ladies if you’re not there yet, learn from my mistakes and don’t ignore your body’s changes at that age. It’s so much harder to bounce back after that.
I hope I never hear another person describe weight loss as a journey.
Self-acceptance, body image, and health *are* a journey, if you’re lucky. It’s not binary and it doesn’t just stop one day if you achieve a goal or recover from an individual injury. That’s your entire relationship to your sense of self. Chronic illness or injury and aging are deeply impactful. Having a body that does what you need it to and allows you to move in society without shame or degradation or loss of opportunity that helps you survive is kind of a big deal. It’s a luxury to not have to work on it, if that’s the case, and that ends for everyone eventually. We are the walking disabled, the future elderly, and many of us have genetic timebombs waiting to create a variety of chronic issues including obesity (which society deeply disapproves of and punishes people for). We are all inevitably required to invest in our health and our body’s capacity or suffer the losses, whether it is due to aging or health/injury or weight. I’m sorry the rhetoric around it bothers you so much. Trust that those of us who are involved in transformative work to heal are not doing it to displease you, but to bookmark the work, and frame it in a meaningful way that supports the sheer effort it requires. Plus, it’s not a static goal but a genuine and holistic change of essentially everything. Transformation is a powerful experience, and finding an authentic foothold into a space that has been denied you or a way through when it felt impassable is profound.
I’d like a lot of what she’s saying if I felt I could believe her but this family are the boy who cried wolf and will say anything that they think will generate the headlines they want. If one of them told me it’s raining I’d go outside to check.
Her face looks crazy.
It looks like she had that smile surgery (where the corners of the mouth turn upward all the time. )
Her therapist revealing things she shared confidentially to the tabloids is vile. She probably couldn’t prove it, but I hope she reported them.
Kinda weird her therapist is also Kim’s. I know professionally they have a problem knowingly treating people who are family/same close circle.
She probably couldn’t trust another therapist after the last one leaking info to the tabloids. So, I understand if Kim assured her that her therapist is reliable. Otherwise, yeah, as far as I know, they usually don’t accept two people from the same family.
I also understand why the therapist would make an exception in this case.
Not a Fan of this family regardless of how much money they are worth. But Khloe has always seemed the most human of them.
Sadly these pictures .. yikes. Why does looking like a blow up sex doll have any appeal?
I’ve always had a soft spot for Khloe, even though she lost me with the plastic surgery and baby daddy drama. I didn’t realize it had been 10 years since she started her fitness stuff, seems like it’s been more recent than that (I would have said maybe 6-7 years). I also hit the gym while going through my divorce, it was a great distraction!
Can she really be single when she has several faces to keep her company?
Must be easy to be content with being single when you’re one of the richest women in the world.