Kylie Jenner's ‘horrible’ pregnancy side effects including hidden pain Adele, LeBron James, and Tiger Woods suffer from
Topics: Kylie Jenner, Celebrity, Pregnancy, Health
Rhiannon Ingle
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Topics: Kylie Jenner, Celebrity, Pregnancy, Health
Kylie Jenner has candidly opened up about her 'horrible' pregnancy side effects, including a hidden pain that several fellow Hollywood A-listers suffer from including Adele, LeBron James, and Tiger Woods.
"I have really bad back issues," the mum-of-two revealed on the latest episode of the Therapuss podcast with Jake Shane. "I have had chronic back pain for like three-and-a-half years.
"It's just starting to get better, but my son, my last pregnancy, it like really took me out."
Kylie continued: "It was like 12 weeks into the pregnancy, I just woke up one day, and I'm like, 'Oh, I can't really walk'.
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"I had like crazy sciatica pain and crazy lower back pain.
"And I was in the best shape of my life before that pregnancy, so I really had high expectations."
She added that she 'really wanted' to work out but had ended up gaining 60 lbs with her daughter, Stormi, whom she and her ex-boyfriend, Travis Scott, welcomed to the world in February 2018.
"I was 200 lbs when I went in to give birth to my daughter," Kylie revealed, adding that she was 210 lbs with her son, Aire, who was born in February 2022.
"I gained like 65 lbs with my son. I was huge," she added.
Kylie recalled craving 'everything', telling Jake: "I ate everything. I ate a pint of ice cream every night.
"I just dove right in. I ate lots of ice cream, just lots of carbs, bagels, in the beginning."
She added: "My nausea was horrible with my son, so if I didn't eat it'd be really bad."
When asked which of her two pregnancies was easier, Kylie said her first as it was a 'breeze'.
The second pregnancy, however, left the reality TV star bed-bound.
"I couldn't leave my bed anyway because I was like in so much back pain and sciatica pain," Kylie said. "And lots of things were happening with my vagina.
"The guy was three centimetres dilated for like a month and a half, two months. The baby was, like, falling out. My doctor's like, 'You have to stay in bed'."
The NHS outlines that sciatica happens when the sciatic nerve, which runs from your lower back to your feet, is irritated or compressed. It usually gets better in a few weeks to a few months but can last longer.
The symptoms of sciatica usually affect your bottom and the back of one leg, often including your foot and toes.
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The Los Angeles Lakers star, 41, missed the start of his 23rd NBA season after what began as 'nerve irritation in the glute' was diagnosed as sciatica.
James' case reportedly stemmed from an on-court workout injury.
One concern for elite athletes is compensation injuries, with Dr Santhosh Thomas, an expert in Interventional Spine and Musculoskeletal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, telling the Athletic: "If you’re alternating your gait or running pattern or twisting pattern just to protect yourself, you may use accessory muscles that normally are not used for that particular activity."
British singer Adele, 38, has spoken about her sciatica several times.
During her Weekends with Adele residency in Las Vegas in 2023, she revealed a flare-up left her unable to move before a show, per the Independent.
"They picked my whole body up off the floor," she told the crowd.
She later added: "I am going to sit down and rest my sciatica."
Another sciatica mention came during a New Year’s Eve performance in 2022, where she shared: "I have to waddle these days as I have really bad sciatica."
The singer has linked her chronic back pain to disc issues dating back to her teens.
Golf pro Tiger Woods, 50, has undergone multiple microdiscectomy procedures to relieve nerve pain caused by discs pressing on nerves in his lower back.
An announcement shared to X in 2021 said that Woods had 'recently undergone a microdiscectomy procedure to remove a pressurised disc fragment that was pinching his nerve after experiencing discomfort following the PNC Championship'.