Kim Kardashian, pregnant with baby North, told by doctor that she had a miscarriage.

Kim Kardashian has spoken candidly about the major health complications she experienced during her pregnancy with North and Saint West and her decision to have her youngest children, Chicago and Psam, through surrogacy. During an appearance on the podcast "All's Fair" with family attorney Laura Wasser, Kardashian revealed that she thought she had miscarried North (opens in new tab) in 2012 after experiencing severe pain and heavy bleeding, a fear that her doctors initially acknowledged.

"I thought I had a miscarriage because I was bleeding really heavily and it was very painful," Kardashian recalled, reported E!

"Because they had to do something like a D&C [dilation and curettage] to clean up the miscarriage. Doctors were unable to find a heartbeat, Kardashian said. Thankfully, when she returned to the doctor on Thanksgiving, North's heartbeat was detected.

But her pregnancy difficulties were not over yet. Kardashian said, "I ended up having North, but it was a really bad pregnancy: I had preeclampsia, I delivered six weeks early, North weighed four pounds, and I had what is called an adhesion placenta, where the placenta grows inside the uterus." The placenta grows inside the uterus," Kardashian said. Doctors were forced to "separate the placenta by hand" and the procedure "left a hole" in her uterus, she said. Kardashian said, "That muscle won't grow back."

Getting pregnant with Saint was not easy, Kardashian recalled. She said, "After I had North, I was lucky enough to go through the process of getting a fertilized egg, and I tried for a year and a half to get pregnant, but couldn't. During her pregnancy, she suffered from preeclampsia and an adherent placenta, both of which "got a little worse."

In December, Kardashian revealed in an Instagram video promoting her shapewear brand SKIMS that she had undergone major surgery after her pregnancy; as Today reported (opens in new tab), "I actually had to have a year and a half to fix the damage all of that did internally. I had to have five different surgeries over that period of time," she said.

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