“I had so many complications. I had this condition called placenta accreta. There were a couple little operations to fix all that, so that created a little hole in my uterus, which I think made it really tough to get pregnant again,” she explains. “It was a long road.
After KKW Beauty founder suffered from placenta accreta during her first two pregnancies, the couple opted to hire a gestational carrier to expand their family.
Kim Kardashian suffered from preeclampsia during her first two pregnancies and placenta accreta during two childbirths and underwent five operations to fix internal damage.
As we already knew, Kim suffered from preeclampsia and placenta accreta while giving birth to North, and those scary complications returned when she gave birth to Saint -- and ultimately, they made it impossible for her to ever carry a child again.
Eventually, they signed up for medical assistance but Kim Kardashian's IVF journey was not without its problems. While the reality TV star was able to conceive their first baby naturally even without trying, she underwent IVF followed by a difficult pregnancy during her second time.
As you know, Kim and Kanye West have four children. Kim gave birth to two kids via natural pregnancy. Surrogate mothers carried the other two of their kids. Saint West was conceived using IVF, and after him, Kim still had two frozen embryos.
“Khloe has been very open about her fertility issues (irregular ovulation) and I think I was always really kind of quiet about mine,” she said. “I have similar issues, and so it was a pleasant surprise when so many doctors were telling me one thing and then the opposite happens.”
“Since they had another embryo, Kim and Kanye always knew they wanted to try and implant that embryo too,” the insider says. “They hoped to work with the same gestational carrier, but it didn't work out this time. They are working with a second carrier now that is pregnant and will give birth in the spring.”
Get the Independent Women email for free. Khloe Kardashian has opened up about her fertility struggles in a series of tweets posted live as the latest episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians aired in the US.
According to Healthline, the reasons people choose surrogates include: — Health issues that prevent a woman from getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term. — Infertility issues that prevent couples from either getting or staying pregnant, like recurrent miscarriages. — Same-sex couples who wish to have children.
Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum Kim Kardashian and sister Khloé Kardashian have both opted for the use of a surrogate to welcome children after giving birth naturally to their older kids. Keep reading to find out why the Kardashians choose surrogacy.
"I'll tell you that I got pregnant in 1994 and had a miscarriage," Kris – who has six children, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Rob, Kendall and Kylie – said to her daughter as they bonded over their difficult experience with parenthood. "My body entirely shut down," Kris recalled. "It stopped making anything.
Placenta accreta occurs when blood vessels and other parts of the placenta grow too deeply into the uterine wall and remain attached. Though typically a woman's placenta is delivered following the birth of the baby, in the case of North, Kardashian West's placenta did not detach.
During a traditional surrogacy, the surrogate uses her own egg for the conception process. This makes the surrogate the baby's biological mother. Typically, the intended father's sperm is used to conceive the child through a process called artificial insemination.
How Much Do Celebrity Surrogates Get Paid? According to TMZ, Kardashian's surrogate will receive $45,000 in monthly installments of $4,500 during her pregnancy. This is a standard fee for an experienced surrogate, said Caballero, who regularly draws up surrogacy agreements.
Viewers even got to see clips of her family's journey play out on E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The reality star carried her first two children, North and Saint, herself, and later welcomed her second two children, Chicago and Psalm, via surrogate in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Last summer, a source told PEOPLE that Kim encouraged the Good American co-founder to pursue surrogacy after welcoming her younger two children, Psalm, 4, and Chicago, 5, via surrogacy after experiencing complications in her pregnancies with Saint, 7, and North, 9. "Khloé tried to get pregnant for a while.
In addition to Khloé revealing the sex of her baby (it's a girl!), Kim's surrogate also made her public debut. The woman, named Lorena, meets Kim's mom and sisters for the first time in the episode, but her face remains hidden, likely to protect her privacy.
Surrogate mothers are impregnated through the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). In this process, doctors create an embryo by fertilizing eggs from the intended mother or an egg donor with sperm from the intended father or a sperm donor.
Kourtney's sisters Kim and Khloe Kardashian have also both undergone IVF, with Khloe going through three failed cycles of the treatment before conceiving her daughter True, while Kim had IVF to have her second child, Saint.
Khloé's Below-Average Follicle Count
Upon returning to the doctor's office, Khloé was relieved to find her follicle count at a normal level. She revealed, “It was all my birth control and as soon as I get the hormones out of my system, I'm the f—kin' Easter bunny.”
In the season 3 premiere of The Kardashians, the LEMME founder, 44, chats with sister Khloé Kardashian, 38, who remarks that it "blows my mind" that Kourtney and husband Travis Barker, 47, want to grow their family. "We are officially done with IVF [in vitro fertilization]," Kourtney shares in a confessional.
But how much did Kim's surrogate cost? TMZ reported in June that the Kardashian-West clan would pay their surrogate $45,000 in 10 payments of $4,500 each. But that's not the only cost associated with a surrogate pregnancy. The celebrity mom also payed the agency that found her surrogate a deposit of $68,850.
Kim Kardashian West is an open book when it comes to talking about the surrogacy process she used for her youngest two children. The mother of four welcomed daughter North, 6, and son Saint, 4, naturally, but due to health complications, used surrogates for her 2-year-old daughter, Chicago, and 8-month-old son, Psalm.