Khloe Kardashian Defends Kim’s 40th Birthday Party Despite Covid-19

As we all know the Kardashian family sticks behind each other no matter what, and Kim’s controversial decision to throw a luxury vacation for her 40th birthday is no different.

“I haven’t heard a lot about it, but I did hear that people were upset that we all went out of town. I don’t really know the extent of it,” Khloé says on Thursday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “But this year is a frustrating year. I get it. I think there’s so many frustrations going on for everybody. But also it’s her 40th. This is something that she wanted to do for us. It was such a nice thing.”

After receiving much backlash from fans, Khloe made sure to mention how the group was tested for Covid-19 numerous times and quarantined ahead of travel. Page Six revealed that the staff from Tetiaroa Atoll in Tahiti were grateful for visitors.

On the show, Khloe said, “Being there with all the precautions that we took and being there and how grateful everyone was for the tourism aspect of it.” She added, “So many people said that we were their first party of guests that they’ve had in months and what it’s done for them to be able to pay their bills or to be able to do stuff for their family, just hearing those messages when we were there, we felt really good and we felt so safe.”

She said, “We did it in the safest way I could imagine someone doing it.”

Kim’s glam photos and tone-deaf captions from the vacation garnered numerous negative reactions on social media.

One Twitter user who wrote, “I haven’t seen ma family in 4 months because I work a public-facing job and I’m absolutely terrified of the possibility of passing Covid on to my vulnerable parents. I hope you had fun pretending things were normal, but spare a thought for those of us staying in the real world.”

Khloe also opened up about her being diagnosed with Covid-19 earlier this year, saying that it was “super scary” being “really, really sick.”

“I just was quarantined in my room for 16 days. We had to wait until I had negative test results for me to leave. And that was the hardest part,” she reflects. “I don’t care how beautiful of a place you have, being taken away from your child for that long, because I couldn’t be around my daughter, that was the most heart-wrenching thing.”