In February, Kylie Jenner gave birth to her second child with her partner, Travis Scott, four years after welcoming their first daughter, Stormi.
As you may recall, Kylie was quick to flaunt her toned physique in a series of Instagram photos shared just two months after welcoming the baby girl, despite giving fans little information. about her postpartum experience.
However, Kylie did things differently the second time around, opting instead for a more raw approach when it came to documenting exactly how she coped.
The 25-year-old shared a candid clip of herself walking on a treadmill while telling her Instagram followers how she’s held on since welcoming her baby boy, whom she doesn’t have. yet revealed the name.
“This experience for me personally was a little more difficult than with my daughter,” she said at the time. “It’s not easy mentally, physically, spiritually, it’s just crazy.”
And Kylie went on to admit that she had to “keep reminding herself” that she was “all human” when she felt compelled to look a certain way.
Days later, Kylie posted a photo of her bare midriff to her Instagram page — a stark contrast to the neat and flawless content she’s known for sharing.
And tons of fans were quick to praise Kylie for choosing to share the “refreshing” and raw image, praising her for “normalizing normal bodies” in a Reddit forum.
Now we get a more candid look at how Kylie was coping during this time, with the latest episode of her family’s Hulu show, The Kardashiansrevealing more about her postpartum experience.
The episode, which was filmed about a month after Kylie gave birth, shows a candid conversation the young mogul had with her sister Kendall Jenner about her mental health at the time.
Kendall asks, “How are you?” How’s the baby?” to which Kylie candidly replies, “It’s been really hard for me.”
“I cried nonstop all day for the first three weeks,” she reveals. “It’s just the baby blues, and then it kinda goes away.”
According to Healthline, the “baby blues” – which the site defines as “a short period after childbirth filled with episodes of sadness, anxiety, stress and mood swings” – affects about 80% of people in postpartum.
Detailing her experience further, Kylie adds that she cried “to the point where I would lay in bed and my head would hurt so much.”
In a confessional, she specifies: “I am not a doctor, but I read on Google [that] they call it “baby blues” when it doesn’t last more than six weeks. After about six weeks I started to feel better, but I definitely hit the blues.
“But I feel better mentally. I don’t cry every day, so that’s great,” she says. “I don’t have bad days with my body, I have bad days mentally.”
Continuing to discuss her relationship with her postpartum body, Kylie admits that while she feels like she’s not quite ready to wear certain clothes, she ultimately feels “very good” about her physique.
“Nothing stops me [from wearing mini dresses],” she says. “I feel really good about my body. Like, I see my body and I love my body, my saggy tits.
“I embrace my PP – postpartum body,” she adds with a smile.
Now, if you’ve followed Kylie over the years, you’ll know that this candid approach to “embracing” her postpartum body marks a huge departure from how she coped following the birth of Stormi.
A 2018 episode of the former E! from his family! reality show, keeping up with the Kardashians, captured Kylie feeling insecure with her body as she posed for her first photo shoot after giving birth. “Doing my first fittings and getting back to it is a bit hard and discouraging,” she admitted during a confessional.
Additionally, Kylie’s older sisters — Kourtney, Kim, and Khloé — have each in the past expressed their desperation to lose weight immediately after giving birth.
When Kourtney had her first child in 2009, she revealed she actually collapsed after weeks of following strict diets and exercise routines.
“I want my body to be like my [pre-baby] Maxim shoot,” she said during an episode of the former spin-off series. Kourtney and Khloe take on Miami. “I was just running on the beach like I always have been lately. And then I just woke up…I didn’t eat anything this morning. Kourt later admitted she was ‘so embarrassed’ that she had “punished” her body “for a photo shoot”.
Along those same lines, Kim was so focused on losing weight after welcoming her son, Saint, in 2015 that she purposely agreed to pose nude on the cover of GQ magazine less than six months after he was born. “I had just had my second baby,” she later recalled of the decision. “I was like, ‘I want to feel sexy again. I want to feel good about myself,’ and that’s what did this to me.”
Kim described the shoot as a “really good goal” to “motivate” her to follow her strict diet “perfectly”. “You set a date for a shoot and you know you have to be there,” she said.
And Khloé has also spoken publicly about how she dieted shortly after giving birth to her daughter, True, in 2018. “If you’re trying to lose a significant amount of weight, diet and exercise are going to hand in hand,” she said while revealing that she was thrilled to have achieved her self-imposed “near weight goal.”
With all of that in mind, it’s refreshing to see that Kylie — the youngest of the KarJenner siblings — has taken a different approach to embracing her postpartum body.
You can watch the latest episode of The Kardashians now on Hulu, or Disney+ internationally. The next episode will air on October 26.
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