'I was literally eating everything': Khloe Kardashian talks turning to food after father's death in new Revenge Body preview
In a new Revenge Body With Khloe Kardashian clip E! News released on Tuesday, the hostess opened up about losing her father when she was 19 years old.
The 32-year-old revealed that after Robert Kardashian succumbed to cancer at the age of 59, 'you spiral, and for me, my spiral was food.'
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star attributed the weight gain to 'internally just suppressing so many things that it was, like, eating me alive, and I was literally eating everything.'
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'I was literally eating everything': In a new Revenge Body With Khloe Kardashian clip, the hostess revealed that after her father succumbed to cancer in 2003, she turned to food
On every episode of the E! series, which began January 12, the reality star helps two contestants work through emotional baggage whilst remaking their figures.
Khloe's revelation was prompted by a contestant called Lauren, who tearfully described the 'accident' that claimed her own father's life when she was 18 years old.
'For my 18th birthday, my dad decided to book an 11-day cruise in Maui,' she said, calling the holiday 'the last time we were all gonna be together before we kind of all did our own thing.'
Background: On every episode of the E! series, which began January 12, the reality star helps two contestants work through emotional baggage whilst remaking their figures
Four years on: The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, pictured in 2007, attributed the weight gain to 'internally just suppressing so many things that it was, like, eating me alive, and I was literally eating everything'
She recalled: 'The day before we were supposed to come home, my dad went out for a swim - he was a very, very strong swimmer - there was a lot of commotion going on, and it happened that my dad had drowned in an accident out there.'
'I know, to a degree, how you feel,' Khloe offered, noting her own father had lost his battle with oesophageal cancer in 2003 and describing the fallout.
'I was 19, and when it set in, it was like...you spiral, and for me, my spiral was food, and I gained so much weight because I was so internally just suppressing so many things that it was, like, eating me alive, and I was literally eating everything.'
Family tragedy: Khloe's revelation was prompted by a contestant called Lauren, who tearfully described the 'accident' that claimed her own father's life when she was 18 years old
She countered, though, that 'we can't let these tragic things ruin the rest of our lives,' to agreement from Lauren, who'd said she'd joined the show in advance of her wedding next year.
Robert Kardashian was married to the woman now called Kris Jenner from 1978 to 1991, producing four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob Kardashian.
He went on to remarry twice and gain notoriety as part of the legal team that secured OJ Simpson's hotly controversial 1995 murder acquittal.
The forthcoming episode of Revenge Body With Khloe Kardashian - its fourth - will air on E! this Thursday at 8pm.
The Kardashian Patriarch: The lawyer was married to the woman now called Kris Jenner from 1978 to 1991, producing four children - Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob - and remarried twice before succumbing to oesophageal cancer in 2003
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