Khloé Kardashian has come a long way with her weight loss journey — but now she’s wishing she had the option of Ozempic.
“Over the past three years, people are like, ‘You must have gotten surgery because you just lost weight.’ I’m like, ‘It’s been a 10-year journey! What are you talking about?’” the Kardashians star, 40, said in an interview with Bustle published on Tuesday, December 3. “But even if people get surgery or [get on] the Ozempic craze, I’m like, ‘Who cares!’ As long as people feel good about themselves, who am I to judge?”
Kardashian added that she thinks the “judgment” people receive for using medication like Ozempic is “ridiculous.”
“I’m just mad [Ozempic] wasn’t around 10 years ago,” she quipped.
Kardashian explained that her weight loss journey began when she and ex-husband Lamar Odom split. The exes wed in 2009 after a whirlwind romance. Four years later, Kardashian filed for divorce.
Following Odom’s nearly fatal 2015 overdose, Kardashian withdrew the filing to care for the former basketball player. She filed for divorce a second time in May 2016 after he made a full recovery. The paperwork was finalized seven months later.
During Kardashian’s personal struggles, she turned to therapy. However, the reality star claimed that she told her then-therapist “something private” which later ended up in a tabloid.
“There’s no way this could have gotten out there,” she told the outlet. “So I stopped going to therapy and started going to the gym. I needed a release, but I did not trust anybody else anymore. And the place that I felt the safest was the gym.”
While Kardashian found herself at the gym, she wasn’t looking to become more confident in the skin she was in. Instead, she was looking to become stronger both physically and mentally.
“As a byproduct, my body started changing. I loved the way I felt,” she explained of her lifestyle change. “I loved testing myself and challenging myself. And I’ve been doing it for 10-plus years now, and I love it.”
However, Kardashian confessed that she still struggles with her self-esteem despite the progress she’s made.
“Looking back, when I was bigger, I thought I was the hottest thing in the world. I had so much more confidence the bigger I was, which is what’s crazy,” she confessed. “The more in shape I am, the more insecure I can get because I’m so hard on myself. It’s a vicious cycle that you don’t get out of.”
Kardashian shared that while she’s also hard on herself, it was the comments from others about her weight loss journey that took a toll.
“But when I started losing weight, I got the same thing,” she said. “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.’ And I’m like, ‘OK, you guys are so confusing!’ I realized you’ll never make everyone happy. I have to do what’s best for me.”
