Kardashian Korner

It was announced on Us Weekly a while back, and never confirmed. But now it's official! People reports that Kim Kardashian West, 36, and Kanye West, 40, are expecting their third child, via surrogate. The couple are already parents to daughter North, 4, and son Saint, almost 2. A source had this to say of the news: 

“The entire family is over the moon. Kim had been looking for a surrogate for months until recently when she found the perfect candidate. Given her health scares in the past, Kim felt the need to hire a surrogacy agency that helped serve as the liaison in finding a healthy woman who would be a great surrogate option for her and Kanye. Both of them have been super involved in the process. They want everything to be perfect and for the baby to be extremely healthy. They don’t want any complications and Kim is providing an ideal eating regimen and diet so everyone knows what the baby is consuming before it’s born.”

In other Kardashian news, Page Six reports that Scott Disick was placed on a 5150 psych hold last month. The LAFD was called out to Disick's Hidden Hills home on August 18th at 5pm, and he was transported to a local hospital. Disick was not held for the full 72 hours (as is eligible under a 5150). Disick seems to be recovering okay, as he was spotted with children Penelope and Mason over Labor Day Weekend.

And finally, Khloe Kardashian has written an essay for Glamour reflecting back on 10 years of doing Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Here is an excerpt:

"In 2007 my sister Kourtney and I were living together in a townhouse in Calabasas, California, where we grew up. We were running our clothing store, Dash, and our kids’ store, Smooch, right next to each other in the mall. We were there every day, and we had no other employees: We did everything ourselves, from the taxes to the housekeeping and inventory. We would take our 15-minute lunch break together and eat in the back.

At my mom’s house, we’d always have these big family dinners. Ryan Seacrest came to one and was like, “You guys are crazy. You need to be on TV.” My mom and my sister Kim wanted to do the show, but Kourtney and I were really against it. We were like, “No—we love our little life. We love what we’re doing.” But Ryan said, “We need the whole family or nobody at all.” So my mom kind of sold it to us as a great commercial for our stores. We were like, “Ugh, fine.” I remember we found two girls who worked across the street from us and asked them to run Dash and Smooch for three days while we shot.

The first thing we ever filmed was a barbecue at my mom’s house. That was our pilot, I guess you could call it. A barbecue! We didn’t know what the hell we were doing. We had seen The Osbournes and The Simple Life, but The Osbournes was more security-camera-footage style, very raw. The Simple Life was all about Paris and Nicole being out of their environment. Our show, at first, was like a very modern-day Brady Bunch—a little gimmicky and with a takeaway each episode. People would say, “I’ve never seen a family cuss each other out, or go through the things you go through, and still be in love with each other.” But that was just our twist on the dorkiness of having this blended family that all gets along.

...Now our lives have evolved. We film six days a week, 12 to 18 hours a day, every single day. When you compile that much footage into 13 or 14 44-minute episodes, you can find a lot of drama. Not every episode is juicy to us; it’s only juicy to the audience. Things like Kim’s robbery or Caitlyn’s transition? That’s the kind of stuff we wish we had never filmed. We aren’t ever like, “Oooh! Let’s do this for season nine.” This is our life, and these are the things that happen. And it’s funny—when we decide not to shoot things, people feel slighted. But when we film too much, they’re like, “Oh, you never should have filmed that.” It’s a catch-22.

We never could have fathomed the longevity of the show—that we would film 14 seasons and a handful of spin-offs. I don’t think anybody could have. When it comes to our drama, we are a large, blended family. If you put a microscope over any family for 10 years, you’re bound to find cracks in the foundation. That’s just the name of the game, and we’re strong enough to endure it.

We are by nature vulnerable and open people. And I think it’s a gift to be that way. I know a lot of people who are superb actors, who could act the fuck out of a role, but they could never be themselves in front of a camera—it would be too much to have people tear them apart or judge them. I totally get that, but this is what we do. And we do it together. This is what we’ve chosen, and we’ve chosen to be as raw and honest as we can."

Read the full essay at Glamour.