Khloé Kardashian Slammed for Hospital Bed Photo After Surrogate Mother Had Her Son

kloe khardashian posed for a photo in a hospital bed looking like a happy mother who had just given birth to the little baby in her arms. But it was a surrogate mother, not Kardashian, who actually gave birth to the newborn, and critics have piled on a photo many deemed arrogant and insensitive.

“It’s bad enough that men try to erase women but when a woman tries to airbrush the mother giving birth, it makes me feel a little sick,” complained a reviewer on the mothers’ discussion site Mumsnet.

“To rent a womb, to order a baby, to erase the surrogate mother and the realities of her experience and to pose in a hospital bed as if that cost and reality were her own. [is] deplorable,” wrote another.

Others complained of “Handmaids’ Tale vibes”, referring to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about a future in which the remaining fertile women are forced to give birth to wives of authoritarian leaders who pretend to be the children’s real mothers.

But several defended Kardashian for taking the time to bond in a hospital bed with her new baby, whose birth was announced early last month.

The hospital photo was released on Thursday, the day of the premiere of the final season of reality show “The Kardashians,” now streaming on Hulu.

The first episode featured the baby’s backstory and its birth. It also focused on Khloé Kardashian’s painful experience of learning that her father Tristan Thompson had secretly cheated on her, again, and that her son with fitness model Maralee Nichols born in december.

It’s unclear why Kardashian used a surrogate. She gave birth to her and Thompson’s first child, True Thompson, who is now 4 years old. The couple planned a second baby when their broken relationship began to mend. They are not together anymore.

In an interview with Heat magazine in July, a source close to Kardashian said undisclosed medical reasons “influenced her decisions.” But “don’t put a lot of stress on your body” with a second pregnancy was a “great motivation”, added the source.

There were also reports of fertility issues, but Kardashian’s fertilized egg was used for surrogacy.

Older sister kim khardashian He fathered two of his four children, Chicago and Psalm, through surrogacy. Reportedly, she suffers from placenta accretaa dangerous condition in which the placenta attaches too deeply to the uterine wall.

The use of surrogate mothers has become increasingly common and is generally considered safe, although the The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends make well-informed decisions. However, the practice has its detractors. Some criticize financial arrangements that force women who have few options out of poverty to carry others’ babies, often with inadequate legal protections. However, many surrogate mothers they say they freely chose the arrangements, that they often find satisfactionand are grateful for the compensation that helped change their families’ financial futures.

“I don’t quite understand the argument against surrogate mothers (although I don’t like the tendency of celebrities to use them for convenience if there is no medical need),” read a poster on Mumsnet.

“They are also autonomous individuals capable of making informed decisions, they will have been informed about the risks and decided that it is worth it for them. I appreciate that there are power imbalance and equity issues with surrogates who come primarily from poor backgrounds and need the money, but I’m not sure if that makes it inherently wrong.”