Khloé Kardashian does not shy away from talking about her body image and confidence.
“I tell one of my girlfriends, she works with me, we were both bigger and now that we’re smaller, we’re athletic smaller, we’ll always joke and be like, ‘I was so much more confident when I was fat and chubby,’” Kardashian, 40, shared on her “Khloé in Wonder Land” podcast episode with Remi Bader on Wednesday, March 26. “Now in a bathing suit I’m like, ‘Oh, do you see this?’ It’s nuts.”
Bader, 30, chimed in, adding that “you’ll always feel a certain way about yourself” and that it’s “normal and everyone does.”
“It’s crazy that we’re so mean to ourselves, but I think so much of it is society constantly nitpicking you,” Kardashian explained. “Whether it’s, like you said, you’re thinner, ‘How dare you get so thin?’ but when you’re bigger they call you all these names, they shame you. That’s when you sort of just have to throw your hands up in the air.”
Kardashian has been candid about her weight loss journey — which began in the wake of her divorce with Lamar Odom in May 2016, when something she told her therapist in confidence ended up in the tabloids.
“I stopped going to therapy and started going to the gym,” she told Bustle in December 2024. “I needed a release, but I did not trust anybody else anymore. And the place that I felt the safest was the gym.”
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star noted that the changes to her body were a “byproduct” of her workouts rather than their focus.
“I loved the way I felt,” she told the outlet. “I loved testing myself and challenging myself.”
Although Kardashian is content with her body now, she also deals with more insecurity because of the media’s scrutiny of her weight — and how “hard” she is on herself.
“The more in shape I am, the more insecure I can get because I’m so hard on myself,” she shared with Bustle. “It’s a vicious cycle that you don’t get out of.”
Kardashian explained that when she started working out and losing weight, she got the same amount of criticism as when she was bigger.
“I was fat-shamed every day when I was bigger, and then when I lost weight, people were like, ‘How dare you, you are so insecure, you’re following society,’” Kardashian recalled. “And I’m like, ‘OK, you guys are so confusing!’ I realized you’ll never make everyone happy.”
The reality star added that she has to do “what’s best” even if “it is a journey and it is a constant struggle” that she faces everyday.
