Weight gain while undergoing fertility treatment is considered completely normal – and the Poosh founder is calling time on trolls saying otherwise.
Kourtney Kardashian has admitted her journey to have a child with husband Travis Barker “hasn’t been the most amazing experience”, but she’s never been more proud of her body.
The 44-year-old reality star will happily admit she’s gained weight since trying to fall pregnant for a fourth time, but more than a year after ending her IVF journey, Kourtney is constantly fighting social media trolls who comment on her curves.
So, this month, she got ahead of said trolls by sharing a poolside snap with her girlfriends. Wearing a ʙικιɴι, she captioned the post, “a little IVF body”.
A year after marrying her husband, Kourtney has had enough of strangers commenting on her physique via their keyboards. “It’s so rude to comment on people when you have no idea what they’re going through,” she said in a teaser for the upcoming season of The Kardashians.
Her candid admission comes six months after she admitted she was finally starting to feel like herself after calling time on IVF.
“Finally started getting my energy back 10 months after stopping IVF,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “For anyone else going through it, it gets better!”
On The Kardashians, fans watched Kourtney work through the IVF process, something she never imagined having to turn to given she’d fallen pregnant with sons Mason, 13, Reign, 8, and daughter Penelope, 10, so easily.
But at 44, her chances of doing so naturally are slim, as she explained on an episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast.
“If you even look anything up online about things you can do to help get pregnant…it says on there, like, ‘If you’re over 40’ — or it might even say something younger — it says, ‘Go right away,'” she said, adding, “So I felt a little bit pushed.”
As a side effect, Kourtney said, “Obviously my body’s changed. But it was all of the hormones that the doctors put me on.”
She said eight months’ worth of IVF treatments not only took a toll on her physically, but mentally, too. “I think it’s taken me a lot to get me to the place of feeling really comfortable and happy with the changes.”
Lucky for her, she’s got a husband who supports her and loves her in any shape or form. “Every day, Travis is like, ‘You’re perfect,'” she said on her reality series. “If I make one complaint, he’s like, ‘You’re perfect. You’re so fine… You’ve never been better.'”
“Having a partner who is so supportive of me and always complimenting me, no matter what, it’s just helped me to really embrace the changes and actually to the point where I love the changes now,” she added.