Kim Kardashian Talks Being Body Shamed While Pregnant

Kim Kardashian hasn't been shy about showing her body during her second pregnancy, be it in Lycra onesies or naked selfies. But that boldness comes after a deeper, inner struggle with the weight shaming she received during her first pregnancy. "It was the worst!" she tells C Magazine in its September issue. "I couldn't help it, and everyone would say, 'She can't stop eating.' I delivered at 180, and they were like, 'She's 210 pounds. She's getting dumped because she's too fat,' and all these ridiculous stories. It really took a toll after the fact, when I was losing weight."

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She stopped looking at photographers the same way, she explains: "Before I was always smiling, and so into being out and about. After I had the baby, I was like, these are the same people that made fun of me, and posted the stories that were so awful, calling me fat for something I couldn't control. I don't want to smile for them. I don't want to be out. Even if I was more confident, I just didn't feel like being that girl who was going to be smiling for every photo. It changed my mood; it changed who I was; it changed my personality a lot."

Her style has also changed. "The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look. They wanted me in really outrageous things, and really fashion-y things. It probably wasn't the time to be experimenting."

"After that, Kanye and I were just like, 'Let's do it ourselves.' It was mainly him figuring it out — what my look was and what I was comfortable in. So now I've had two years to really come into my own and have my own style." The look now is "more simple. I figured out a formula of what works." Which, so far, is lots of jumpsuits and figure-hugging dresses.

And while the second Kimye baby isn't due until the end of this year, Kim is already talking about a third baby—and why one may not be a possibility. "They think I'll have placenta accreta again [a serious condition where the placenta stays firmly attached to the uterus wall after childbirth instead of detaching; Kim had it after her first pregnancy], 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. I think we're just gonna go day by day, see how overwhelming it is, and see how the delivery goes."

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