Kourtney Kardashian proudly showed off her changing body amid her in vitro fertilization journey.
The Poosh founder, 44, was seen posing in a black string bikini as she lounged under the sun with friends in a new photo posted to her Instagram Story on Wednesday.
“A little IVF body,” Kardashian captioned it.
In the snap, the “Kardashians” star was seen enjoying a tropical getaway with two of her girlfriends as she rocked the tiny bikini and accessorized with black sleek sunglasses and a stack of silver chained necklaces.
Kardashian previously told fans she was undergoing IFV treatments to try and conceive a child with husband Travis Barker.
Amid her fertility journey, she detailed the side effects she experienced from IVF, including weight gain and menopause-like symptoms.
“It hasn’t been the most amazing experience,” Kardashian – who wed Barker, 47, in May 2022 – said in a teaser for “The Kardashians” Hulu show last March.
She then told mom Kris Jenner, “I’m, like, it’s so rude to comment on people when you have no idea what they’re going through.”
Kardashian claims that she was”pushed” into doing IVF because of her age.
“If you even look anything up online about things you can do to help get pregnant … it says on there, like, ‘If you’re over 40’ — or it might even say something younger — it says, ‘Go right away,’” the “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” alum said on Dear Media’s “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast in October 2022.
“So I felt a little bit pushed.”
But that same month, Kardashian praised her “thicker body,” explaining that her confidence is all thanks to the Blink-182 rocker.
“Every day, Travis is like, ‘You’re perfect,’” the Poosh creator said on an episode of “The Kardashians” in October. “If I make one complaint, he’s like, ‘You’re perfect. You’re so fine … You’ve never been better.’”
Kardashian said that she initially struggled with her weight gain but that her supportive husband allowed her to love her body.
“It’s taken me a lot to get me to the place of feeling really comfortable and happy with the changes,” she said. “Having a partner who is so supportive of me and always complimenting me, no matter what, it’s just helped me to really embrace the changes and actually to the point where I love the changes now.”
The Lemme creator added that she has an “amazing” butt and that she has accepted the number on the scale.
“I used to be, like, 95 pounds,” Kardashian said. “And then 105 became my new normal weight. I’m 115. I used to be, like, stuck on the number.”
She also added that her skinnier self was a less happy version of herself.
“I used to always say this: When I’m super skinny, just know I’m not happy. … Not about eating. Not about staying at a certain weight. But, like, just in toxic relationships,” she said.
Kardashian has made a point to document her IVF experience on “The Kardashians,” but so has Barker.
“I don’t care if I’m c—ming in a cup, or whatever,” Barker told GQ last November of taping their medical visit on the show. “If any of that can help people – seeing Kourtney’s journey through IVF, which is super hard for a woman. You saw her struggle with it and talk about it. That’s real.”
Last December, she shared that she was feeling more like herself nearly a year after quitting IVF.
“Finally started getting my energy back 10 months after IVF, for anyone else going through it, it gets better!” she wrote on her Instagram Story at the time.
Throughout her IVF excursion, fans have often speculated that Kardashian is pregnant on social media, which has prompted the reality star to clap back and defend her transforming physique.
Kardashian and her ex-partner Scott Disick, 39, already share three kids: Mason, 13, Penelope, 10, and Reign, 8.
