The Kardashian sisters premiered the long-awaited third season of their reality show on May 25, and finally answered many of the unknowns of recent months. Among others, how Kim Kardashian has experienced the follies of her ex-husband Kanye West, the name of Khloé Kardashian’s second son, born by surrogate pregnancy; or if Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker had finally managed to be parents.
The older sister of Kim Kardashian and the drummer of the band Blink-182 were married in May 2023 in style in a dream wedding in Portofino (Italy) -after two weddings, one in Las Vegas and another by civil in California-, and they were more than ready to be the parents of their first child together. To do this, they resorted to in vitro fertilization, the treatment that the specialists recommended to the couple, aged 44 (Kardashian) and 47 (Barker). However, after a few months, they decided to abandon the process.
However, in the first episode of the new season of The Kardashians, Kris Jenner’s eldest daughter opened up on the channel to talk about how that whole process had been and, most importantly, why she had decided to leave it.
Speaking of her fertility as a woman considered biologically “older” and how in vitro fertilization was her only hope, Kourtney Kardashian wanted to call attention to a very important detail that many couples, especially women, who are the ones who ultimately they live this process with more involvement; overlooked: even with frozen eggs, nothing guarantees that things will work out.
As Kourtney herself tells it, she herself froze some of her eggs when she was younger, on the recommendation of her acquaintances, long before she met the man who is now her husband.
“When I was 38 or 39, everyone tried to talk me into doing it. I had seven frozen eggs from years ago, before Travis,” Kardashian explains, revealing the terrible reality: “Most of them didn’t survive thawing.”
“The eggs are a cell, and none of them managed to become an embryo once fertilized,” he explained, “Freezing the eggs does not guarantee anything. It is a misunderstanding, people do it thinking that it is a kind of ‘safety net’ , but it’s not like that”.
“My health still suffers from the consequences, because it is about hormones. Also on a mental level,” he explains, assuring that his priority right now is “to be happy.” For the moment, the television star confessed that it had taken him no less than ten months to recover the usual energy for his day to day.
“Being happy is what’s important, being a good mother to my children. Whatever has to be, will be,” she says, referring to all the children the couple have in common. Kourtney has three children, the result of her relationship with businessman Scott Disick: Mason (13), Penelope (10) and Reign (8); while Travis and his ex, Shanna Moakler, is the father of Landon (19) and Alabama (17).
