Kourtney Kardashian Barker hits back at critics who say she’s too old to have a baby, calling her pregnancy “God’s plan.”
The 44-year-old “Kardashians” star, who is expecting her first child with her husband, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, is featured in this week’s Vanity Fair Italia digital cover story.
In an accompanying interview, Kardashian told Barker that she doesn’t pay attention to the naysayers who question her desire to have a baby in her 40s.
“These comments don’t affect me. All I’m saying is: How could anyone question God’s plan? Because that’s how I see this pregnancy, which came when both Travis and I weren’t even thinking about it anymore and a year after we canceled IVF,” the reality star said, according to a post on Vanity Fair’s official Instagram page Italy.
Kardashian Barker announced she was pregnant on June 16 when she held up a sign that read “Travis, I’m pregnant” during a Blink-182 concert. The couple later announced that they were expecting a son.
Last month, Kardashian Barker announced on social media that she had undergone urgent fetal surgery, which saved her baby’s life.
The couple, who tied the knot in May 2022, had previously been open about the unsuccessful route of in vitro fertilization.
During the Season 3 premiere of The Kardashians, which debuted in May, Kardashian Barker revealed that she and her husband were “officially done with IVF.”
The Poosh founder subsequently explained that IVF was hard on both her body and her mental health.
“My health is still affected because of the hormones. And mentally it definitely took its toll as well,” she said. “That’s why I think the most important thing is just to be happy and be a good parent to my children. We just accept that whatever is meant to be, will be.”
The reality star said at the time that she had decided to leave her pregnancy to a higher power.
“I would love a baby more than anything, but I just really believe in what God has for us,” she said. “If this is a baby, then I believe it will happen.”
The couple’s baby is adopted into a blended family with many siblings.
Kardashian Barker is the mother of three children with her former partner Scott Disick: Mason, 13, Penelope, 11, and Reign, 8.
Barker has two children with his ex-wife Shanna Moakler: Landon, 20, and Alabama, 17. He is also stepfather to Atiana De La Hoya, 24, Moakler’s daughter with ex-husband Oscar De La Hoya.
This article was originally published on TODAY.com