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Kim Kardashian opens up about her traumatic journey to motherhood

The reality star suffered serious complications during her two pregnancies

Kim Kardashian has opened up about her traumatic journey to motherhood.

The 39-year-old shared the difficulties she experienced during pregnancy as part of her shapewear brand’s holiday campaign – which will feature the stories of nine women, and the causes they believe in.

In a video posted on YouTube and Instagram, Kim said: “When I was pregnant with my daughter North, I had a condition called preeclampsia or toxemia, which is basically when the mom’s organs start to shut down.”

“The only way to get rid of that is to deliver the baby. At 34 and a half weeks, I had to go into emergency labor — they induced me. North was 4 pounds. She was almost six weeks early.”

“After I delivered, my placenta never came out, so that’s called placenta accreta. So my placenta grew inside my uterus, and that is what women die from in childbirth.”

“But after my daughter was born, I still continued to do the process of freezing my eggs. I was able to get pregnant through that with my son Saint, and then I had two embryos left.

“I had the same condition, same awful delivery that I had with my first daughter,” Kim continued.

“After that, I had to have five different operations within a year and a half to fix the damage that all of that did from the inside.”

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After welcoming her second child, Kim wanted to try and get pregnant again, but doctors advised her not to.

Kim said: “I asked my doctors, ‘Can I do it one more time?’ And they were like, ‘We won’t even put an embryo in you — that would be like malpractice.'”

The reality star and her husband Kanye West then turned to surrogacy, and have since welcomed two more children – Chicago, 23 months, and Psalm, 7 months.

“I’m so thankful for my beautiful kids, no matter how they came to me — they came to me. I’m so thankful for surrogates. I’m really thankful for my family.”

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“I grew up with so many siblings. I just loved being in a big family environment. I would have gone through the same pain and back for the result of having my babies. It was all worth it,” Kim said.

Kim then announced that as part of SKIMS’ holiday campaign, the brand has made a donation to The Bail Project on her behalf.

The mother-of-four, who is studying to become a lawyer, explained: “I have seen so many families torn apart by just not having a fair bail system.”

“It’s really important to me that families are reunited and connected, especially this holiday season.”

The brand will donate $100,000 in total this Christmas, which will be divided among the organisations Girls Inc., Global Down Syndrome Foundation, Hope for Haiti’s Children, I Am B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L., METAVivor Research & Support, Our Blood, Partnerships With Industry, Women’s Sports Foundation, and The Bail Project.

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