Kim Kardashian says being body-shamed and compared to Kate Middleton while pregnant 'killed' her self-esteem

• Kim Kardashian said she hated being pregnant due to the body-shaming she faced.
• Kardashian also said she was compared to Shamu the whale on magazine covers.
• She opened up about the experience on the "We Are Supported By" podcast.

Kim Kardashian said she was body-shamed and compared to Kate Middleton when she was pregnant.

Speaking to Kristen Bell and Monica Padman for their limited podcast series, "We Are Supported By," Kardashian shared how the experience negatively affected her body image.

"I was not a good pregnant person, I was not a cute pregnant person. I did not like it, I hated it, I hated how I felt, I hated how I looked," Kardashian said in the podcast episode released on Wednesday.

"The media really did brutalize me for gaining a lot of weight, and there would be covers of magazines with me and Shamu, who wore it better. It was really, really crazy," she said later in the podcast, referencing the famous SeaWorld killer whale.

Kardashian said she would be compared to Kate Middleton, who was pregnant at the same time.

"So it would say 'Kate the waif and Kim the whale.' I don't think that would really fly today, but it killed my self-esteem," she said, adding that the scrutiny would make her "sit home and cry all the time."

Kardashian told Bell and Padman that the experience made her too "embarrassed" to go to the gym, so she would work out in Kris Jenner's garage to avoid being seen.

"It really did change me. It made me really pull back on what I share and what I wanted to give, because I saw how nasty everyone was," she said.

Kardashian gave birth to her eldest child, North West, on June 15, 2013. Her second child, Saint, was born in 2015. Due to health complications, her third child, Chicago (born in 2018) and Psalm (born in 2019) were delivered via surrogates.

This wasn't the first time Kardashian has opened up about being body-shamed.

Writing on her Instagram story back in March, the SKIMS founder said she suffered from preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder, while pregnant with North West.

Kardashian said the condition caused her to "swell uncontrollably," and by the time she gave birth she had gained 60 pounds.

"I cried every single day over what was happening to my body mainly from the pressures of being constantly compared to what society considered a healthy pregnant person should look like," she wrote on Instagram.