Khloe Kardashian revealed her close relationship with her OBGYN, Dr Aliabadi, this May. Singing her doctor’s praises, Khloe explains while appearing as a podcast guest, how ‘Dr A’ was there for her in some of her hardest moments.
It’s no secret that Khloe Kardashian, 39, has been through a lot when it comes to her personal relationships. After marrying and divorcing Lamar Odom, she went on to date James Harden, and later met Tristan Thompson who she now has two children with. Speaking on the SHE MD podcast Khloe opened up about her surrogacy journey. Khloe said: “Dr A is one of my favorite people… She was at my baby shower… we invite her to the premiere of our TV shows.”
Khloe Kardashian: ‘Tatum’s birth was surreal’
Speaking on SHE MD, a podcast to educate, empower, and inform women, Khloe opens up about her pregnancy, surrogacy journey, and dating life.
When it came to naming her son, Tatum Thompson, she explained how it was “tough” for her.
She said: “Because I wasn’t carrying him, I didn’t really feel anything. Like, with true I could feel things about her… I don’t know, I just felt True’s spirit.”
“I wasn’t at a ton of the doctor’s appointments, too, while my surrogate was pregnant, to protect her privacy. But I would always do FaceTime.”
Once Tatum was born, Khloe explained how Dr A “put Tatum on her chest to do skin-to-skin.”
She added: “My face, looking back now, it’s like I was a deer in the headlights. I felt like ‘I can’t believe this is real’, not bad or good, it was just surreal.”
Khloe ‘had challenges’ during surrogacy
Telling her story, Khloe explained how “a couple of days before Thanksgiving,” she did an embryo transfer.
She said: “…the first week of December, I found out that my ex was actually having a baby with somebody else. I never told my family I did the transfer because I wanted to surprise everyone. The only person who knew was Dr A.
“The entire pregnancy of my surrogate, I admittedly buried my head in the sand.”
At the time, she told Dr A: “I can’t do this,” adding how “the whole surrogacy pregnancy I was really detached and couldn’t really face it.”
Khloe continued: “I was very much in denial that this was happening, so I didn’t get too attached during the pregnancy part. I had one of the world’s best surrogates, it has nothing to do with her…”
She said it took her around 10 months to “fully connect” to her son, Tatum.
Kardashians star ‘became reclusive’
When it came to keeping her surrogacy under wraps, Khloe said she was grateful for the time she had of it being private.
But, as soon as the news hit the headlines, it “devastated” her.
“That’s when all the judgment and the knives were thrown at me… somehow it got on TMZ just weeks before… that was my biggest fear was people finding out.”
She added: “I couldn’t face it, let alone hear the noise and so I became very much a recluse and I didn’t even decorate the baby’s room because I didn’t want my people in my home knowing… I couldn’t admit this to anybody because I was so ashamed.”
The Good American founder recalls Dr A telling her that her son needed to be delivered a week or two before the due date.
In response, Khloe said: “No, we can’t do this” because she was “having a weekend with True,” and began “hysterically crying.”
But, she explained further: “…it wasn’t about the weekend, it was because now this is real.”
Describing Dr A as “Mother Theresa,” Khloe said: “She goes, you know what, I’ll deliver the baby, I’ll take the baby and you let me know when you’re ready to pick him up.”
Khloe added how this is what Dr A “did” for her before her sister, Kim Kardashian, came in like a “Prince on a white horse” who was there for her at the tough time.
She also touched on how she believes although she and Tristan Thompson are “not meant to be together,” he “is meant to be the father of the kids” adding how he’s a “great dad.”
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