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Khloe Kardashian opened up about the struggles she faced when she welcomed her son Tatum.
She appeared on the SHE MD podcast on Tuesday where she talked about how hard the process was for her.
The Good American founder, 39, is a patient of the podcast's co-host Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi and she told her she had a hard time bonding with him before he was born via surrogate in July 2023.
'I wasn't carrying him, I didn't really feel anything,' she said, which was exacerbated by the fact that no one knew about the upcoming baby – not even her family.
'And then the first week of December, I found out that my ex was actually having a baby with somebody else,' she said, referring to her ex, Tristan Thompson.
Khloé Kardashian opened up about the struggles she faced when she welcomed her son Tatum
She appeared on the SHE MD podcast on Tuesday, May 7, where she talked about how hard the process was for her
'And I never told my family I did the transfer. I wasn't going to tell anyone until it took, because I wanted to surprise everyone. So no one knew.'
And the reality TV star also had to fend off the press and social media posts and comments when news of her impending baby broke.
'It devastated me because that's when all the judgment and the knives were thrown at me,' she recalled.
The mom of two had planned one last Mommy and me trip with her daughter True before her son's arrival. But her plans were foiled when her doctor called.
'I remember, Dr. A. called and said she just had a checkup with my surrogate, and she said, "Khloe, we have to deliver within 24 hours,"' she explained.
'The baby wasn't due for another week or two and this was my last weekend with my daughter True. I just needed the weekend,' she said.
Khloé started to panic in the moment as her careful plans were being thrown into chaos.
'And so I go, "No, we can't do this." And [Dr. A's] like, "No, there's no fluid in the sac. We need to do this." And I go, "I'm having a weekend. I'm having a weekend with True,"' Kardashian recalls.
'And she goes, this is the Mother Theresa, she goes, "Okay," because I started hysterically crying because it wasn't even about the weekend, it was about now this is real.
'She goes, "You know what?' I'll deliver the
