Khloé Kardashian is a loving mother to her 2-year-old daughter True, but she has already feared pregnancy, thanks to an explicit conversation about teenage sex from mother Kris Jenner.
“I was so afraid of getting pregnant,” Khloé said of his teenager during a Wednesday episode of Lady Parts, an Ellentube talk show hosted by actress Sarah Hyland and OB / GYN Dr. Sherry Ross, where she joined sister Kourtney Kardashian. “My parents fucking scared me and showed me like, ‘This is herpes’ and they showed me pictures. I remember my mom made me look at – oh my God, I had to look at all these looks, and if I had sex, that was what was going to happen to me and I was so scared. “
Although Khloé, 36 and Kourtney, 41, were discouraged from having sex before marriage, Khloé said he approached Kris about using the birth control pill, news that was stupefied by the experience of his older siblings.
“She took me to the doctor, we received birth control pills and I remember feeling a lot safer,” said Khloé. “Because I didn’t want to be a teenage mother, I didn’t want to get pregnant before I was really ready to get pregnant and fully understand these responsibilities.”
Kourtney added: “Khloé and I have different memories. We are only five years apart, but we’ve always been told you don’t have sex before you get married. It wasn’t even an option. “
The sisters also said that the basic tones of sex education are less personal pleasure and more “a natural progression you make in life,” said Khloé. “When you’re younger, it has a lot to do with focusing on someone else, are you doing something good enough for someone else? It’s more to please your partner, which is also good, but I definitely think it was less about the focus on pleasing me. “
Although Jenner did not respond to Khloé’s claims, she admitted that her daughter had an accidental introduction to sex education. Last year, in a promotion for Mom complaining to Kristen Bell, Jenner said, “Khloé and his girlfriend were playing hide and seek, so they hid under my bed,” confessed Jenner, laughing all the time. “But it happened to be late at night, when I was going to bed. And then they learned about birds and bees by being under my bed when it was being used. Let’s just put it that way.” Oops.
Khloé, who shares True with Boston Celtics player Tristan Thompson, explored his fertility options. As explained in Lady Parts, she underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) three different times, the process of removing eggs from a woman’s body and mixing them with sperm and then implanting the fertilized eggs in the uterus. She also froze about 12-14 eggs, but none survived.
After another round of in vitro fertilization, Khloé said, “We realized that my eggs are not strong enough to be frozen. They should be mixed immediately with the sperm to make embryos. So, I actually made embryos.” She added that the COVID-19 pandemic has complicated family planning. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization, more than 40 percent of women have changed plans for the number of children, or for having children, because of the pandemic.
“They say, ‘If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans,” she said.
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