Kourtney Kardashian has a lot to be thankful for and she knows it. In a recent interview, one of her first after she was rushed to the hospital in need of urgent fetal surgery, the mom of three, soon to be four, addressed criticisms she’s received over her age while pregnant and talked about why she’s not ready to talk about the health scare she had while pregnant.
Kourtney has no time for haters.
Kourtney appeared on a recent cover of Vanity Fair Italia where she opened up about pregnancy with her fourth baby, including the highs and lows along the way.
She’s used to hearing people’s opinions on how she chooses to live her life after spending so much time on the family’s reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians on E! and now Kardashians, which airs on Hulu.
But when it came to her decision to try to have a baby with her husband, Travis Barker, she doesn’t care what people think.
While talking about the online haters she has over getting pregnant at 44 years old with Travis, who is 47, she told the magazine she has no time to give to anyone who thinks negatively.
"Those comments don't affect me," she told Vanity Fair Italia via translation. "To those who make them, I just say: how dare you question God's plan?"
Getting pregnant was something she had hoped for with Travis, which was chronicled on their reality TV show, including undergoing IVF before they ultimately decided to take another path.
Kourtney shared her IVF experience on their reality show, but in the end she decided that wasn’t what was best for her.
"I knew deep down that it wasn't the right thing," she said.
"And in fact, I kept telling Travis: If we're meant to have a baby, then it's just going to happen,” she said.
And that’s what they did. They stopped IVF procedures, and then they got pregnant. “And so it was: When we stopped forcing the process, then it happened” she shared.
The pregnancy hasn’t been easy, even from the start when Kourtney had more restrictions.
Although this is Kourtney’s fourth pregnancy (she shares sons Reign Aston, 8, and Mason Dash, 13, and daughter Penelope Scotland, 11, with ex Scott Disick), she shared in the interview that it’s been very different.
"Physically I feel great," she shared. "I like being pregnant. I'm obsessed with the idea of being pregnant! But this time, unlike the other three, I was followed by a different group of doctors who, in the first months, gave me many restrictions. No workouts, no Pilates, no caffeine, no plane trips. Even no sex!
"Well, I think all this caution made me a little afraid because in the past I had never had to be careful," she continued. "It took me a while to let go of the fear, I would say that right after the surgery I got to the point where I let go, I stopped worrying."
Of course, this pregnancy also came with the scary moment of needing emergency surgery.
With that scary moment now behind her, she’s trying to find comfort and let go of the fears. "Right after the surgery, I reached the point where I let myself go and I stopped worrying," she said, referring to her "urgent fetal surgery” that she needed last month.
"Now I talk to the baby every day, have a positive mindset, keep my head straight, and say a lot of prayers," she continued, sharing though that, "It took me a while to let go of the fear."
"And I feel really lucky and grateful. Well, I have a lot of gratitude, yes. Not that I didn't have it before, but perhaps since it came easy to me, I took the pregnancy for granted."
