Kim Kardashian got candid about a recent health scare, revealing on the season 7 premiere of The Kardashians that she’d been diagnosed with a brain aneurysm.
The SKIMS founder fought back tears while talking about the diagnosis in a trailer that played at the beginning of Thursday’s season opener.
In the clip, the 45-year-old can be seen lying in an MRI machine and later telling her family the scan found “a little aneurysm.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, a brain aneurysm is “a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain.” Though most aren’t serious, especially if they’re small, the condition can become life-threatening if an aneurysm ruptures, causing bleeding in the brain.
Kardashian went on to tell her family that her doctor blamed the aneurysm on stress. Elsewhere in the premiere, she admitted that a lot of her stress comes from her ex-husband, Kanye West, with whom she shares four kids between the ages of 6 and 12.
“I feel more stressed probably just because I have to protect my kids,” she said. “Everyone around can handle [the drama], but I want to protect my babies.”
She noted that for years she’s been “able to hide” her ex-husband’s controversies and public outbursts from their kids, but it’s getting harder to do so as they get older. Kardashian later said her relationship with West feels like “a little bit of Stockholm syndrome.”
“I always felt really bad and always wanted to help,” she explained. “[People think] I should have stuck it out and I could have helped. … [But] as much as people think that I have the luxury of walking away and not dealing ever again, that’s not my reality. This person — we have four kids together.”
Kardashian also partly blamed her ongoing psoriasis flare-ups to the stress of co-parenting with West.
“I haven’t had psoriasis since my divorce [in 2021], but it’s starting to come back,” Kardashian told a producer while looking at the red rashes on her legs. “It always flares up whenever I start feeling stressed.”
Still, the mother of four said she isn’t looking for an apology from her ex and just wants to find peace no matter how he behaves.
“I’m not looking for it,” she explained. “I don’t care. Is it sad, it’s so f—ing sad. But I can’t stress too much about that. I have to worry about other things.”
Vivian Kwarm
New York Daily News
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