WARNING: Distressing images
Reality TV star turned businesswoman Kim Kardashian left viewers of her reality series The Kardashians shocked by the extent of her finger injuries following a household accident.
The 43-year-old media personality said a sliding door closing on her finger was “more painful than childbirth”.
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The severity of her injuries and the explanation for it were revealed during Thursday’s The Kardashians episode.
The Skims and SKKN founder told producers there was “no latch” on a “big sliding door” to her bathroom, and she typically stopped it with her hand.
“I pulled it really hard, and then Saint ran in with chips,” she said of her eight-year-old son with ex-husband Kanye West.
“I’m like, ‘It’s 8.30 at night, no chips!’”
Focused on Saint, the door closed on her fingers and “went ‘boom,’ and I was like, ‘Ugh’,” she recalled.
“I literally looked at my hand and I fell to the ground.
“I just grabbed the table and got on my knees because I just saw all this blood. And it was my bone sticking out a little bit.”
A “warning” label was flashed across the screen before the graphic photos were displayed during the episode.
Her bone could be seen as a result of the injury.
Kardashian recalled the “horrible” pain she endured, and said she went into “shock”.
“I didn’t do anything but freeze. You can’t even describe the pain but your whole body goes into shock.
“It was more painful than childbirth,” she added
After seeking medical attention, the media star was told that the “tip broke off” from her finger.
She was warning that her nail could not grow back as a result, joking with producers that she would “invent a nail implant” if need be.