14 DAY TRIAL // Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West are expecting their second child together, a baby boy due this winter, and the reality star is opening up about their struggles to conceive in the latest issue of C Magazine. She’s spoken of her fertility issues before, but this time she’s really not holding anything back.
For starters, she says, it took them over a year to conceive, during which time they tried everything they could. The struggle even took the fun out of the act of conceiving, she adds.
However, Kim is not complaining, especially since she lives with the fear that this child will be the last one she’ll be able to have naturally.
Kim might have her uterus removed
Kim’s first pregnancy, with daughter North, was also very complicated. She had placenta accreta and preeclampsia, and the fact that she was constantly bullied for how she looked (the weight gain and the bloating, in particular) made it even worse.
Compared to the first pregnancy, this one is a breeze, but she’s toughening up for the possibility that she might not be able to have other children. She and Kanye have always wanted a large family, much like her own growing up.
“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,” she says. “I think we’re just gonna go day by day, see how overwhelming it is, and see how the delivery goes.”
Kim and her new, improved pregnancy style
Of course, Kim also talks about her disastrous maternity style on her first pregnancy, which mostly involved too tight and uncomfortable outfits and sky-high heels she could barely walk in. This was actually the reason she was “bullied,” but she has never admitted to it.
She blames her sartorial mistakes on working with more stylists, each one of whom wanted to “possess” her look. In putting together her outfits, they didn’t bother to think if they suited her or if she’d look good in them, given her naturally curvy body and the excess pregnancy weight.
This time, though, she has Kanye by her side, she gushes. Kanye started introducing Kim to high fashion shortly after they started dating, and she believes she has her unique and unmistakable style now.
As it happens, it also works on her pregnancy body. “For this pregnancy, I’m definitely more simple. I figured out a formula of what works,” she says.