Khloé Kardashian Criticized For Hospital Bed Photo After Surrogate Mom Had Her Son

Kloé Khardashian posed for a photo in a hospital bed looking like a blissed-out mom who had just given birth to the tiny baby boy in her arms. But it was a surrogate mother, not Kardashian, who actually labored to birth the newborn, and critics piled on over a photo that many considered arrogant — and insensitive.

“It’s bad enough men trying to erase women but when a woman tries to airbrush the birthing mother out of the picture it makes me feel a bit sick,” one critic complained on the mom discussion site Mumsnet.

“Renting a womb, commissioning a baby, erasing the surrogate mother and the realities of her experience and posing in a hospital bed as if that cost and reality was hers [is] deplorable,” wrote another.

Others complained about “Handmaids’ Tale vibes,” referring to Margaret Atwood’s distopian novel of a future in which the remaining fertile women are forced to give birth for women of authoritarian leaders who pretend to be the children’s actual mothers.

But several defended Kardashian for taking the time to bond in a hospital bed with her new baby, whose birth was announced early last month.

The hospital photo was released Thursday, the day of the premiere of the latest season of “The Kardashians” reality show, now streaming on Hulu.

The first episode featured the baby backstory and his birth. It also focused on Khloé Kardashian’s painful experience learning that father Tristan Thompson had secretly cheated on her — again — and that his son with fitness model Maralee Nichols was born in December.