Kim Kardashian says Framing Britney Spears gave her flashbacks of how she was treated during her first pregnancy. The media attention, she admits, “really broke me”.
On Friday, the reality star, 40, reflected on her pregnancy with her 7-year-old daughter North West, sharing a slide show of magazine covers that compared her to the Shamu whale and mocked her 60-year weight gain. pounds. “So I finally watched Britney Spears’ documentary this week and it made me feel a lot of empathy for her,” she wrote on Instagram Stories. “The way the media played a big role in your life can be very traumatic and can really destroy even the strongest person. No matter how public someone’s life may seem, no one deserves to be treated with such cruelty or judgment for entertainment. . “
February 5th The New York Times Presents Spears’ documentary recalled the obsessive media coverage of the pop star’s mental health, his longtime relationship with Justin Timberlake and his sexuality, launching a new context about the objectification of young women by the media. As new outrage was building up on social media, Timberlake apologized to Spears for publicizing his sex life after the 2002 separation.
Kardashian experienced her own infernal landscape during her first pregnancy, out of shame, fashion criticism and rumors that her belly was fake.
“When I was pregnant with North, I was suffering from pre-eclampsia, which made me swell uncontrollably,” wrote Kardashian of the pregnancy risk complication that is marked by high blood pressure and forced the mother into emergency labor six weeks earlier. After delivery, Kardashian developed a placenta accreta, which occurs when the placenta does not detach from the uterine wall after delivery. During her second pregnancy with son Saint, 5, Kardashian developed both conditions again and decided to use a surrogate to deliver daughter Chicago, 3, and son Psalm, 1. Kardashian shares all of her children with rapper Kanye West, from whom she recently filed for divorce from.
During her first pregnancy, she wrote: “… I cried every day about what was happening to my body, mainly because of the pressure of being constantly compared to what society considered a healthy pregnant person should be – in addition to being compared to Shamu, the whale in the media. Looking at all my pictures online and in magazines made me so insecure and I was afraid to ask myself if I would ever get my pre-baby body back. ”
She added, “I was embarrassed weekly with cover stories that made my insecurities so painful that I couldn’t leave the house for months. It really broke me.”
Kardashian said that the unpleasant feelings made her the person she is today, however, “saying that it didn’t hurt me mentally would be a lie. I’m sharing this just to say that I really hope everyone involved in the business to embarrass and intimidating someone to the point of breaking it can reconsider and instead try to show a little understanding and compassion. You never fully know what someone is going on behind the scenes and I learned from my own experiences that it’s always better to lead with kindness. ”
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