In a preview for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian is in Mexico celebrating Kourtney Kardashian’s birthday. She’s crying and having a panic attack, talking on the phone with her friend Joe Francis, asking him if she’s safe in Mexico.
Francis is the owner of the villas the Kardashians were staying at, and he assured Kim she was safe, trying to calm her down. He told her that he went through the same thing at first, but that he now trusts his children to be there too.
Kim’s anxiety is due to her terrible experience in Paris when men tied her up in her hotel room and stole all of her belongings. Her husband, Kanye West, was in the middle of his concert and had to cut it short when he heard the bad news.
“Ever since Paris, I go through this worst-case scenario mode in my head. I was so excited to come on this trip, and I had no idea that I was going to end up feeling this way. But it hit me right as we were getting off the plane that all of these people at the airport are going to see 17 or 18 girls with all of our Chanel bags and Louis Vuitton. It just hit me that we were the biggest target ever.” – Kim Kardashian
Another preview for the same episode shows Kim upset when she sees unflattering pictures that paparazzi took of her minutes earlier. Kim’s assistant, Stephanie Sheppard, hands her the phone, and Kim is instantly infuriated, saying she does not look like that in person.
The pictures got published in April, and the world did what she said they would – body-shame her. “I don’t get it,” said Kim. “I literally don’t look like this. I need to untag myself in everything. I’m literally gonna go inside and just start untagging.”
None of the girls saw any people around the beach, and especially no paparazzi. Kim had just gone through her panic attack, and now she had to worry about her image.
“I’m already having this anxiety attack over security and I’m already on high alert. Now paparazzi found us. The scrutiny that we get all the time – we try to avoid that. So I thought, I’m going on a private vacation, not posting…I’m doing all the steps to try to be as private and discreet as possible. And then you take pictures, and if they’re not perfect, people body-shame you and criticize you. For people to think that’s okay is so frustrating.” – Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian is the mother of two children with her husband of three years, Kanye West. They recently announced that they’re expecting their third child, but they will be using a surrogate mother to bring their baby into the world.