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Kim Kardashian regrets her response to early comments about her sister Khloe Kardashian’s appearance.
The SKIMS founder, 45, revealed in an Oct. 15 interview on Call Her Daddy that he felt he and sister Kourtney Kardashian “maybe should have been there” for Khloe when interviewers and the public made comments about her, 41, early in her career.
During a conversation with host Alex Cooper, Kim revealed that Khloe, now 41, recently found and shared a link to an old TV show she appeared on.
“They just looked at Khloe and were like, ‘Khloe, what do you think about how you look so different from Kourtney and Kim?’ There was no getting away with that today, given the way they asked the question,” Kim said.
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The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star told Cooper during a sit-down on his new podcast that he had noticed “at times” that Khloe was being treated differently during interviews because of her appearance, but that “her reactions were so great.”
Kim reflected, “My weight was an issue. My appearance was an issue. Everything was an issue.”
“I think Kourtney and I should have supported her a little more publicly when that happened. I think we just wanted to… We didn’t know. This was our first interview. It was our first time being on these shows,” Kim said. “What can you say and what can’t you say? But just looking back and knowing that the interview was done that way is kind of crazy.”
It’s unclear which TV appearance Kim was specifically referring to, but she insisted to Cooper that it was from The View. The Kardashian sisters often appeared on The View and numerous other daytime shows during the early years of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Kim appeared on The View on October 28th.
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In a 2015 PEOPLE cover interview, Khloe explained that she didn’t realize she was different from her sisters “until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.”
“I was used to being compared to my sisters, but I was compared in such a harsh way that I thought, ‘Okay, that’s my role.'” So I started saying it in front of people. I was like, “Okay, I’m the fat, funny little sister.” who cares? I almost took it upon myself,” she said at the time. “[In reality]I wasn’t fat, I wasn’t obese. But I was letting society believe I was.”
On the March 26 episode of the Chloe in Wonderland podcast, Chloe opened up about her body image to guest Remi Bader, explaining that she recently told a friend that she was “a lot more confident when I was fat and chubby.”
“It’s funny that we’re so mean to ourselves, but I think a lot of it is because society always looks down on you,” the Good American co-founder explained. “Whether it’s being skinny, like you said, ‘How do you get so skinny?’ But when you get older, they call you those names and shame you. At those times, you just throw your hands in the air.”
Also on the Wonderland podcast, Khloe detailed how she was able to “control” her weight through fitness, which she said was “not that easy.” “I’ve been working out for about 10 years, but it’s one step at a time. It took me a very long time to get to where I am, and people forget that,” she said. “And all the effort comes from within. The brain is a muscle, so you have to retrain it to love yourself and see yourself as well.”
She added that once she started losing weight, critics on social media would complain that she was “not the same person anymore.” “They always said, ‘I loved fat Khloe,’ and, well, that’s not good either. Like I always let a lot of people down,” she added.
“But you just have to worry about not letting yourself down.”
