Kourtney Kardashian Barker is known for not holding back—and when we gather over Zoom to talk on a Friday afternoon, she’s nearing the end of her pregnancy with her fourth child (first with husband Travis Barker) and isn’t censoring herself one bit.
Her fourth pregnancy full of restrictions
“I’m one of those people who is obsessed with being pregnant,” Kardashian Barker shares—something easily inferred by anybody who’s watched her carry kids Mason (13), Penelope (11), and Reign (8) on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Kourtney Kardashian Barker’s still obsessed with being pregnant, but this baby boy comes a decade later and with an important caveat: She now falls into the category of a geriatric pregnancy. “That word is just so wild. But my doctors are so cautious and I’ve had so many more restrictions than my other pregnancies. The first trimester was no working out, no flying on airplanes, no sex. Then the second trimester, I could do anything. Now, I am back to all the restrictions.”
The limitations are, in part, because Kourtney Kardashian Barker and her baby boy underwent emergency surgery to save the baby’s life this past September.
“That experience opened my eyes to a whole new world of pregnancy that I didn’t know about in the past,” she says. “It was terrifying. After, I learned that insurance typically only covers two ultrasounds when you’re pregnant, I had no idea. I’ve always been lucky enough to do more than what insurance covers, and it’s one of those ultrasounds that saved my baby’s life.”
This baby comes after a long, failed experience with IVF, which was documented on Hulu’s The Kardashians.
“I felt really pressured and pushed into doing IVF,” Kourtney Kardashian Barker shares “It went against my intuition, and I didn’t feel fully prepared for the mental or physical toll is takes.” It was when the couple took a break from IVF—for their Portofino wedding—that they decided to close that chapter of their journey. “We just got pregnant naturally. It was an indescribable feeling. Shock, then super-happy, fear sets in, worry, but I remembered then to have gratitude.”