14 DAY TRIAL // Last December, reality star and businesswoman Khloe Kardashian saw her 4-year marriage to basketball star Lamar Odom implode, and she filed for divorce after months of rumors and speculation on how bad things were between them. She hasn’t lost hope that she will find a special someone with whom to start a family though.
Khloe and mother and manager Kris Jenner are featured in the April issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, which will be out at newsstands on March 4. For the time being, we have excerpts only from Khloe’s interview and, among other things, she reveals she still wants to have children.
Her fertility issues and burning desire to have children represented a strong plotline on both the family’s reality show and her and Lamar’s spinoff. It looks like Khloe hasn’t lost hope yet, even if her heart was broken by the failure of her first marriage.
“I love kids. I hope and pray I have kids when the time is right,” she says.
While Khloe has been open on many topics, both in interviews and on TV, divorce seems to have made her warier of putting her life on the silver platter like that. She tells the mag she learned from her sister Kim’s divorce from Kris Humphries and the way the media trashed her for it that it’s always best to keep your guard up.
Which is a funny thing to say, if you think about it, since the entire family is famous precisely for this apparent inability to censor themselves or to filter anything pertaining to their personal life. But Khloe insists that’s the case with her.
“Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy. Kim was so thrashed for her marriage and it not working out. If she wasn't happy it took guts to say, ‘You know what? I can't do this anymore.’ But you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. People hate us for showing stuff and they hate us when we say, ‘Fine, we won't show it anymore’,” she explains.
Still, Khloe doesn’t regret showing her wedding on TV, or showing details of her personal life and of her marriage to Lamar, or even certain things that should have probably stayed in the bedroom and between them. She chalks it all up to experience, a lesson well learned.
The heartbreak also seems to have made her less of a planner because Khloe can’t possibly imagine herself in 10 years’ time. Wherever she will be though, she knows one thing: she will be “happy and smiling.”