{"id":287828,"date":"2020-02-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1119466"},"modified":"2020-02-07T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T12:00:00","slug":"kim-kardashian-reveals-why-she-used-a-surrogate-therapist-before-daughter-chicagos-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kim-kardashian-reveals-why-she-used-a-surrogate-therapist-before-daughter-chicagos-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian Reveals Why She Used a &#8221;Surrogate Therapist&#8221; Before Daughter Chicago&#8217;s Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.057978196234\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.538156590684\">\n<p>Family always comes first for&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kim_kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why when she and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> enlisted the help of a surrogate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/kardashians\/news\/898251\/kim-kardashian-really-thankful-for-her-surrogate-but-admits-it-s-frustrating-she-can-t-carry-baby-no-3-on-her-own\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcome their third child<\/a>, daughter&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chicago_west\">Chicago West<\/a><\/strong>, Kim went to great lengths to ensure a positive experience for all involved. E! News has an exclusive sneak peek from Kim&#8217;s latest interview with celebrity divorce attorney&nbsp;<strong>Laura Wasser<\/strong>&nbsp;for her new podcast,&nbsp;<em>All&#8217;s Fair<\/em>, where the E! reality TV star shared new details from Chi&#8217;s birth story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kim&nbsp;said she leaned on what she described as a &#8220;surrogate therapist&#8221; while building a relationship with the woman who was carrying her baby. &#8220;You get your surrogate attorney, you get your surrogate broker and then the broker recommended that we use a therapist that would communicate with me first and then communicate with her and kind of be our liaison,&#8221; she explained.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for Kim and her surrogate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/kardashians\/news\/917692\/see-pregnant-kylie-jenner-and-khloe-kardashian-bond-with-kim-s-surrogate-on-emotional-kuwtk-season-finale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who appeared anonymously<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>Keeping Up With the Kardashians <\/em>prior to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/862794\/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-welcome-baby-no-3-via-surrogate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chi&#8217;s Jan. 2018 arrival<\/a>, to form a close relationship.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"62\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14\">\n<p>&#8220;Towards the end we got close enough where we could communicate really without that,&#8221; Kim recalled. &#8220;[The therapist] would suggest, \u2018Hey, I think you guys should communicate once a week through text, maybe on Mother&#8217;s Day. She&#8217;s a mother as well. Maybe get her a massage or something that&#8217;s appropriate for her to pamper.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things like going through the birthing plan, so if anything was uncomfortable she would be that buffer to say, \u2018This is who I want in the room. What are you comfortable with? How does this work?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.47347740668\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.422396856582\">\n<p>After enduring two high-risk pregnancies, Kim publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/907159\/kim-kardashian-defends-her-and-kanye-west-s-decision-to-use-a-surrogate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended her decision<\/a> to expand her family through surrogacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having a gestational carrier is definitely different, but anyone who says or thinks it&#8217;s the easy way out is completely wrong,&#8221; she wrote on her app in 2018. &#8220;People assume it&#8217;s better because you don&#8217;t have to deal with the physical changes, pain or complications with delivery, but for me it was so hard to not carry my own child, especially after I carried <strong>North<\/strong> [<strong>Wes<\/strong>t] and Saint [<strong>West<\/strong>].<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33.054846938776\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20191126\/rs_819x1024-191226081920-819-kim-kardashian-family-christmas-party-instagram-cjh-122619.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Chicago West, North West, Saint West, Psalm West, Christmas Party 2019\" alt=\"Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Chicago West, North West, Saint West, Psalm West, Christmas Party 2019\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram \/ Kim Kardashian<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"8.3342465753425\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful for modern technology and that this is even possible. It&#8217;s not for everyone, but I absolutely love my gestational carrier and this was the best experience I&#8217;ve ever had. Our gestational carrier gave us the greatest gift one could give,&#8221; Kim continued at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In May 2019, Kim and Kanye <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1025472\/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-welcome-baby-no-4-via-surrogate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welcomed their fourth child<\/a> via a different surrogate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><i>Keeping Up With the Kardashians<\/i> returns spring 2020, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1119466\/kim-kardashian-reveals-why-she-used-a-surrogate-therapist-before-daughter-chicago-s-birth?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family always comes first for&nbsp;Kim Kardashian.&nbsp; That&#8217;s why when she and Kanye West enlisted the help of a surrogate to welcome their third child, daughter&nbsp;Chicago West, Kim went to great lengths to ensure a positive experience for all involved. E! News has an exclusive sneak peek from Kim&#8217;s latest interview with celebrity divorce attorney&nbsp;Laura Wasser&nbsp;for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 04:23:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}