Kim Kardashian is sharing a detail about her first pregnancy that changes how the whole story reads. In the upcoming biography Citizen Kim, she says she conceived North West just seven months into dating Kanye West, right after doctors told her she had few eggs left and suggested she stop taking birth control. She was not expecting it to work. It worked almost immediately, and she has described being hysterical when she told him, crying so hard that he assumed a family member had died.
She then asked for a week alone to decide whether to continue the pregnancy, saying she thought her life was over. She chose to move forward. North was born in 2013 about five and a half weeks early, after a pregnancy that included bleeding, preeclampsia and placenta accreta. Kim and Kanye went on to welcome Saint, Chicago and Psalm before their divorce was finalized in 2022.
The bigger takeaway is how fuzzy fertility advice can be. Low odds are not zero odds, and plenty of people find that out the hard way. A warning about egg count is not a prediction, it is a probability, and probabilities surprise people every single day.
What would you do if you got that news seven months into a new relationship? Tell us in the comments.
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