Khloé Kardashian remembers how people scrutinized her when she was “bigger.” However, when she lost weight, people didn’t stop judging her body. Instead of “fat-shaming her,” people shamed her for conforming to the unrealistic beauty standards that plague women throughout their lives. During a recent interview with Bustle, Khloé opened up about her weight loss journey and the judgment she’s dealt with in the process.
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Khloé's weight loss journey started because of her divorce.
Khloé Kardashian and her ex-husband, basketball player Lamar Odom, divorced in 2016. As she grappled with their divorce and a problematic therapist, she developed a habit of going to the gym. Speaking to Bustle, Khloé explained that her therapist at the time shared personal information with a tabloid. The betrayal led to Khloé temporarily quitting therapy. She started going to the gym instead.
“I needed a release, but I did not trust anybody else anymore,” she explained.
Her body changed because of her gym habit.
Weight loss wasn’t necessarily Khloé’s goal when she started working out consistently. “As a byproduct, my body started changing,” she explained to the publication.
Going to the gym also had a positive impact on how she felt. “I loved the way I felt,” she said. “I loved testing myself and challenging myself.”
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At the same time, working out didn't fix everything.
For Khloé, working out was healing in some ways. However, she continues to feel insecure about her body at times — and was actually more confident in the past. “It is a journey and it is a constant struggle, at least for me,” Khloé said during the interview.
“Looking back, when I was bigger, I thought I was the hottest thing in the world,” she recalled. “I had so much more confidence the bigger I was, which is what’s crazy. And then the more in shape I am, the more insecure I can get because I’m so hard on myself.”
People judged her after she lost weight, too.
After she lost weight, Khloé continued getting negative comments about her body. “I was fat-shamed every day when I was bigger, and then when I lost weight, people were like, ‘How dare you, you are so insecure, you’re following society,'” she said. “And I’m like, ‘OK, you guys are so confusing!'”
Though the comments she received were confusing, she learned something from the experience. “I realized you’ll never make everyone happy,” she told Bustle. “I have to do what’s best for me.”
She has also received comments about surgery and Ozempic.
Some people don’t believe that Khloé lost weight by simply going to the gym and making other lifestyle changes. “Over the past three years, people are like, ‘You must have gotten surgery because you just lost weight,'” she said. She finds comments like these baffling because her weight loss journey has “been a 10-year journey.”
Regardless, she thinks the judgment surrounding Ozempic is unnecessary. “Even if people get surgery or [get on] the Ozempic craze, I’m like, ‘Who cares!’ As long as people feel good about themselves, who am I to judge?” she said.
