Following Tuesday’s news that Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson are expecting a child, fans are thrilled for the reality star. Those who keep up with Khloé know that the 33-year-old television personality has always wanted a family. However, the road to pregnancy has been quite a journey.
It’s been eight years (to the day) that the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star wed Lamar Odom. The couple tied the knot on Sept. 27, 2009, after a whirlwind, monthlong courtship. The nuptials were televised on E! and it didn’t take long before their spinoff show, Khloé & Lamar, hit the air.
During the show’s two seasons, one of the main plot lines was all about the couple wanting to have a child. Yet tabloid rumors constantly swirled regarding Khloé’s fertility struggles, including one report that alleged she had a miscarriage.
“I typically don’t address a lot of the tabloids because 90 percent of what they write is false. But when you talk about someone having a miscarriage, that’s so personal and so hurtful, and I personally,” Khloé said on The Talk in 2012. “Lamar and I do want kids, and it will happen when it’s in God’s plan to happen. With the trade moving back and forth, there’s a reason why we don’t have a newborn baby right now.”
That same year, the couple abruptly pulled the plug on their hit reality show. Reports of marital strife first surfaced as Lamar’s struggles in the NBA became their own, real-life storyline.
“I’m a modern girl, but you should put your husband first,” Kardashian said at the time. “I like to think divorce is not an option.”
After Odom’s infidelity and substance and alcohol abuse issues came to light, divorce was the only option. Khloé filed (for the first time) in December 2013.
“I’ve always wanted to have kids; I do think I would be a great mom,” she reflected in 2015. “I wanted the whole story. I didn’t just want a baby. I wanted Lamar, my babies, I wanted to have their names, what they’re going to do. I wanted the whole thing. And we tried. There’s a reason why it didn’t work and that’s fine. God always has a bigger plan, and we don’t know why.”
Khloé continued, “I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should. I don’t think about kids like that now. Do I love kids? Yeah, and I want to be with my nieces and nephews as much as I can, but I don’t have that baby fever now; I take birth control every day at 5 p.m. It has to be a whole story for me. I wanted it all. And I will get it all one day.”
As Lamar’s private struggles played out publicly, it was clear why Khloé had been in no rush to get pregnant during her marriage. This year, she even admitted that she had “fake-tried” to conceive during the Khloé & Lamar years.
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