Kim Kardashian had 5 operations to 'fix the damage' caused by births of Saint and North, says the pain 'was all worth it'
In a video for her new SKIMS campaign, Kim Kardashian opened up about the health complications she faced while giving birth to her first and second child, which forced her to undergo five operations within a year and a half to "fix the damage."
After giving birth to her daughter North, six, and her son Saint, four, doctors advised the 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' star against carrying children. Since she and her husband, Kanye West, wanted more kids, they opted for surrogacy when it came to the birth of their third and fourth children - daughter Chicago, one, and son Psalm, seven months.
"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," she said in the video. "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 four pounds. She was almost six weeks early."
At the time, her placenta did not come out of her body naturally and instead, kept on growing inside her uterus which was dangerous to her health. "That is what women die from in childbirth," the mother-of-four noted.
Although she froze her eggs for getting pregnant for a second time, Kim went through further complications while carrying her son, Saint.
"After my daughter was born, I still continued to do the process of freezing my eggs," she said. "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. After that, I had to have five different operations within a year and a half to fix the damage that all of that did on the inside."
Despite repeated dangers to her health, Kim was ready to carry her child a third time but the doctors would not let her go through the complicated process again. "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'," she continued.
Regardless of whether her children came out of her womb or someone else's, Kim said that she was grateful for having a big family at the end of the day.
"I'm so thankful for my beautiful kids, no matter how they came to me -- they came to me," she added. "I'm so thankful for surrogates. I'm really thankful for my family. I grew up with so many siblings. I just loved being in a big environment. I would have gone through the same pain and back for the result of having my babies. It was all worth it."
