Kim Kardashian has revealed how being body-shamed during her first pregnancy made her "cry all the time" and left her feeling very insecure.
The 40-year-old mother of four discussed the intense media scrutiny she experienced while pregnant with daughter North during an appearance on Kristen Bell’s “We Are Supported By” podcast.
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"I was not a good pregnant person. I was not a cute pregnant person. I did not like it," Kardashian admitted. "I hated it. I hated how I felt. I hate how I looked."
"I was so used to seeing my mom pregnant, my sister pregnant and everyone looking so cute and having these easy deliveries and life was great and they snapped right back,” she added. “That wasn't me."
The “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star explained how shocked she was by the brutal critiques of her weight gain and how she was even compared to Shamu the whale.
“It was really, really crazy,” the KKW Beauty mogul said. “It was so nasty. I don’t think it would really fly today, but it killed my self-esteem. I can’t believe that this was acceptable and that this was OK.”
“I would sit at home and cry all the time. I had this condition called preeclampsia and I didn’t know that I had it. It's over-swelling in your feet and face,” she continued. “I had to deliver six weeks early with an emergency delivery and then I had another condition called Placenta accreta with both of my babies. It was insane.”
Kardashian said the harsh critiques made her reevaluate what she shares on social media.
"It really did change me and it made me really pull back on what I shared and just how much I wanted to give because I saw how nasty everyone was and it felt so bad," she said.
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Despite the rough treatment in the press and on social media, the reality star has said she doesn’t intend to stop posting bikini pics.
"I will say that there's something so freeing about being like, 'f--k, I'm 40, and I'm in the best shape of my life,'" Kardashian told InStyle in June. "And I want to post a bikini studying if I want to. There's something empowering about that."
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