Kim Kardashian Westis opening up about her harrowing yet fulfilling journey to motherhood.
On Thursday, Kim, 39,shared a videoas part of her shapewear brand SKIMS' new 2019 holiday campaign featuring the stories of nine women, including herself, and the causes they believe in.
For her story, Kim, who revealed she is supporting the Bail Project, speaks about her struggles with preeclampsia and having to undergo five different surgeries to undo the damage pregnancy caused her body.
“When I was pregnant with my daughterNorth, I had a condition called preeclampsia or toxemia, which is basically when the mom’s organs start to shut down,” Kim, who is seen wearing an ensemble from her SKIMS Cozy Collection, says in the clip.
She later explains in the clip that after her delivery, her placenta never came out, but instead grew inside her uterus.
“That is what women die from in childbirth,” Kim says.
Despite the daunting experience, Kim longed for more children with husbandKanye West. However, the reality star, who haspreviously opened up about fertility complications, struggled to conceive.
“After my daughter was born, I still continued to do the process of freezing my eggs. I was able to get pregnant through that with my sonSaint, and then I had two embryos left. I had the same condition, same awful delivery that I had with my first daughter,” Kim explains.
“After that, I had to have five different operations within a year and a half to fix the damage that all of that did on the inside.”
After welcoming Saint, now 4, Kim realized she still wanted more kids, but her doctors were against her getting pregnant again.
Kim Kardashian West/Instagram
“I asked my doctors, ‘Can I do it one more time?' And they were like, ‘We won’t even put an embryo in you — that would be like malpractice,'” Kim says.
The KKW Beauty founder shares that’s when she turned to surrogacy. She used two different surrogates for her last two embryos.
Kim and Kanye, 42, 23-month-old daughterChicagoin January 2018 and 7-month-old sonPsalmin May — both via surrogate.
“I’m so thankful for my beautiful kids, no matter how they came to me — they came to me. I’m so thankful for surrogates. I’m really thankful for my family. I grew up with so many siblings. I just loved being in a big environment. I would have gone through the same pain and back for the result of having my babies. It was all worth it,” Kim concludes.
As for whether or not that means Kim is done having kids, it’s safe to say she is. However, Kanye isn’t exactly on the same page.
In October, just days after Kim toldE! Newsthat she was “definitely done” having children, Kanye appeared onThe Late Late Show, where he told hostJames Corden,“[I want] seven kids.”
“The richest thing that you can have is as many children as possible,” Kanye added.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West.Mark Sagliocco/WireImage
For SKIMS' holiday campaign, the brand has donated $100,000 to be divided among the organizations Girls Inc., Global Down Syndrome Foundation, Hope for Haiti’s Children, I Am B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L., METAVivor Research & Support, Our Blood, Partnerships With Industry, Women’s Sports Foundation and of course The Bail Project.
source: people.com
