Khloé Kardashian says she is open to finding love again after her split from Tristan Thompson, but she does not want to have children with a future partner, a decision she directly ties to the trauma of Thompson's cheating scandal. The reality star laid out her thinking in a candid conversation with her mother, Kris Jenner, on the October 15, 2026, episode of 'The Kardashians.'
Kardashian, 42, told Jenner that her past relationships shaped her outlook on future family planning. She said she has been through a great deal in her dating life that caused her trauma, and that she believes it is healthier to be with someone new without necessarily having children with that person. She explained that she does not want her children to feel less important because their father lives in a different home, and that she wants to avoid disrupting the household dynamic she has built.
Kardashian shares two children with Thompson, 35: daughter True and son Tatum. The couple began dating in September 2016 and announced they were expecting their first child a year later. Days before True's arrival in 2018, reports emerged that Thompson had cheated, the first in a series of infidelity scandals that would define and ultimately end the relationship.
The remarks offer a window into how the scandal continues to shape Kardashian's life years later. She emphasized that she is not ruling out having more children in the abstract, but that blending families in a way that could make her existing children feel displaced is a line she does not want to cross. For a star whose family life has played out almost entirely in public, the comments were strikingly reflective.
Thompson's repeated infidelities became one of the defining celebrity cheating sagas of the late 2010s and early 2020s, generating endless tabloid coverage and making Kardashian's romantic life a matter of public debate. Her decision to discuss the lasting impact on the family's Hulu series continues the Kardashian formula of converting personal pain into content, but the emotional register of this conversation felt notably raw.
Kardashian also hinted that she has not given up on the idea of a lasting partnership, just on the traditional script for one. In the landscape of modern celebrity relationships, her stance reflects a broader shift: family structures assembled on the star's own terms, with the children's stability placed explicitly above romantic convention.
The conversation aired on 'The Kardashians,' the family's Hulu series that succeeded 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' after its two-decade run on E!. True, the couple's daughter, was born in 2018, and their son Tatum followed in 2022. Kardashian has spoken in the past about the difficulty of co-parenting with Thompson in the public eye, and the new remarks suggest she has settled on a philosophy: protect the family she has rather than risk destabilizing it for a conventional new beginning.