Khloe Kardashian and husband Lamar Odom are preparing for in vitro fertilization treatment, according to reports.
“She is desperate for a baby with Lamar and will do whatever it takes,” a source close to the couple tells Us Weekly. The source claims that Kardashian and Odom began consultations in September, and are getting ready for the procedure which costs $10,000 to $15,000 a pop. “They have faith the IVF will work,” the source adds.
This would be Kardashian’s first pregnancy. Odom has two children — Destiny, 13, and Lamar Jr., 10 — from a previous relationship with ex-girlfriend Liza Morales. The couple also had a third child who tragically died at seven months.
While Khloe has not confirmed that she and her husband are trying IVF, she has been very vocal about her desire to have children since marrying Odom in 2009.
“For two years, people have been wanting me to get pregnant,” Khloe said. “People keep saying, ‘Why aren’t you pregnant yet?’ That’s what scares me, when people are like, ‘Did you go to the doctor? Do you know if everything is working?’ It’s nerve-wracking. Sometimes I feel like I’m letting everyone down.”
Khloe has revealed that she feels heavy pressure from her family to have children. She once shared that sister Kourtney Kardashian, who announced last week that she was pregnant with her second child, wants Khloe to have a baby so that her son, Mason, will have a cousin. And Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner once jokingly called Khloe “stingy” for not giving her grandchildren.
Jenner apparently frequently provides Khloe with fertility tips. Jenner even shared her own struggle to get pregnant with her daughter.
“Maybe [mom] thought I was having a bad day,” Khloe revealed. “She starts telling me that when she and Bruce first met, they were trying to have kids and it took her five years to get pregnant with Kendall … She was just like, ‘With certain people, it just takes a minute.'”
But Khloe, for her part, is ready and has already picked out baby names.
“I’m so nuts, of course I’ve already thought of this,” she said. “I definitely want some L names. One name we like is Luke Joseph. And I like London for either a boy or a girl.”