Kim Kardashian may have finally pinpointed the beginning of her fight-or-flight response, thanks to sister Khloé Kardashian.
In a preview for the upcoming Thursday, July 18 episode of The Kardashians, Kim can be seen speaking with Khloé about how she has been seeing a therapist. The SKIMS founder's therapist noted, "You think calm is your superpower. I think you are so desensitized from trauma that you literally are frozen in fight or flight."
She went on to explain that there must have been an inciting incident in Kim's life where remaining calm worked, so now she "will always choose calm." Khloé seemed to immediately have the answer. "Don't you think your robbery," the mother-of-two questioned, reminding Kim of the incident in October 2016 when she was robbed at gunpoint at her hotel during Paris Fashion Week. "You weren't calm before. You don't remember that?" Khloé asked.
Kim seemed taken aback by the suggestion, questioning, "Really?" as Khloé continued in the way only a sister could. "Kim, you were a lunatic..." the Good American founder deadpanned, reminding her of how she would flip out if someone touched her clothes. Kim seemed to still be processing the information as she noted her therapist was "trying to go back to, like, childhood."
Khloé shot down that suggestion, and seemed confident in her assessment. "No, you were never calm as a teenager, in your twenties... you cried about everything. You were bratty. You threw tantrums," she said, adding that "everything stopped" after Kim got robbed. The youngest Kardashian sister reminded Kim that even she had said at the time, "my calmness is what kept me alive."
Kim had previously opened up about the robbery while speaking with David Letterman in 2020, admitting that she thought she was going to be sexually assaulted, since she was only wearing her robe when two men dressed as policemen barged into her hotel room. Instead, her legs and wrists were bound with handcuffs and zip ties, and duct tape was placed over her eyes and mouth, as she was made to wait in the bathtub.
At the time, Kim had chosen to stay in for the night, while sister Kourtney went out, so the security guard went with her. Kim spoke about begging for her life, and how she was thinking, "Just tell them I have children. I have babies... I have to get home." Kim shares four children with ex Kanye West, North, 11, Saint, 8, Chicago, 6, and Psalm, 5.
The robbers, who were later caught and charged, made off with $10 million worth of jewelry, including a $4 million engagement ring from then-husband West. In 2018, the beauty mogul spoke on The Alec Baldwin Show about how the robbery had affected her. "For a good year, I almost lost myself. I was never depressed, but I wasn't motivated to get up and work like I used to. It shook me," Kim said, per USA Today.
She also spoke about getting past the robbery in a 2017 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, after which she posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) how it had changed her. "I took a tragic horrific experience and did not let it diminish me, rather grew and evolved and allowed the experience to teach me," Kim posted, adding. "I can say I've become so much better because of it."
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