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Kim Kardashian reveals her son has been diagnosed with rare condition

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Updated 09:41 19 Jul 2024 GMT+1Published 09:39 19 Jul 2024 GMT+1

Kim Kardashian reveals her son has been diagnosed with rare condition

Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Kim shares her four children with ex Kanye West

Rhianna Benson

Rhianna Benson

Kim Kardashian has lifted the lid on a rare health condition that one of children has been diagnosed with.

The US reality star - who shares her four kids with rapper ex-husband Kanye West - appeared on the She MD podcast earlier this week, where she not only revealed the recently-diagnosed disease, but explained that it is 'hereditary'.

Kim Kardashian opened up about her son's health condition. (Instagram/@kimkardashian)
Kim Kardashian opened up about her son's health condition. (Instagram/@kimkardashian)

Who are Kim Kardashian's children?

As we say, 43-year-old Kim is a mother-of-four, having birthed her eldest two children naturally, and welcomed her youngest via surrogate.

Though she and former flame Kanye are no longer together - having tied the knot back in 2014 before divorcing in 2022 - they have continued to co-parent their four youngsters ever since.

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The ex-couple are parents to two daughters, 11-year-old North and six-year-old Chicago, as well as two sons, Saint, eight, and Psalm, five.

Which child has been diagnosed with the rare condition?

Appearing on the popular lifestyle podcast earlier this week, Keeping Up With The Kardashians frontwoman Kim opened up about a disease that one of her children had recently been diagnosed with.

Kim didn't reveal which of her sons has the condition. (Instagram/@kimkardashian
Kim didn't reveal which of her sons has the condition. (Instagram/@kimkardashian

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Though the TV star opted not to name which youngster it was, she did disclose that the fate had befallen one of her sons.

How did Kim reveal the diagnosis?

Speaking to podcast hosts - gynaecologist Dr Thais Aliabadi and women's advocate Mary Alice Haney - Kim began the discussion.

"My son has an auto-immune disease and they said it’s hereditary and so we were trying to figure it out," she explained, revealing that the condition was vitiligo.

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Adding that the disease 'came from from my mum [Kris Jenner]', Kim said that it then 'went to me, and I passed it on in a different form to my son'.

The SKIMS bosses continued to admit: "I didn’t know anything about it, but having to learn about it and figuring out where it came from and that it’s hereditary and just learning more and being able to share that has been a blessing."

What is vitiligo?

Vitiligo is a long-term skin condition. (NHS)
Vitiligo is a long-term skin condition. (NHS)

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This rare disease describes a long-term condition which sees pale white patches of skin develop in certain areas of the body, due to a lack of melanin.

While it can affect any area of the body, vitiligo is more commonly found on the face, neck and hands, as well as within the creases of the skin.

This, in turn, makes these areas of the body more partial to sunburn, with doctors encouraging vilitigo-sufferers to take extra care when it comes to applying SPF.

It's said that Vitiligo affects around one percent of the entire world's population.

Featured Image Credit: She MD Podcast/Instagram/@kimkardashian

Topics: Celebrity, Health, Kim Kardashian, The Kardashians

Rhianna Benson
Rhianna Benson

Rhianna is an Entertainment Journalist at LADbible Group, working across LADbible, UNILAD and Tyla. She has a Masters in News Journalism from the University of Salford and a Masters in Ancient History from the University of Edinburgh. She previously worked as a Celebrity Reporter for OK! and New Magazines, and as a TV Writer for Reach PLC.

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