Kourtney Kardashian Barker and Travis Barker are Hollywood’s cutest love friends, but the former admits she was initially hesitant to take the plunge. In the latest episode of the ‘Not Skinny But Not Fat’ podcast, Kardashian Barker spoke at length with host Amanda Hirsch about her new husband, whom she married in May, and the start of their romance after years of a platonic relationship. .
“I think I was scared of anything that could be real,” Kardashian Barker said on the Oct. 4 episode of the podcast, revealing that longtime neighbor Barker had never done a “physical move” at all. throughout their years of friendship, but he would ask her to hang herself outside.
“He was asking me to go to the movies and I remember saying to my therapist, I was like, ‘Travis asked me to go to the movies,'” the mother-of-three shared. said, ‘And are you going?’ And I was like, ‘I could never go. I could never.’ And she was like, ‘Why? You know, he seems like a good dad.'” Kardashian Barker said she was worried about Barker trying to kiss her or hold her hand , but her therapist pushed back, “So what?”
Kardashian Barker, who previously had a nearly decade-long relationship with Scott Disick, admitted, “I had custody like that for so many years, and I just think it was all too real. And then friends almost kept repeating it, kept repeating it.”
Kardashian Barker and Barker got engaged in October last year after confirming their romance in February 2021. Reflecting now, Kardashian Barker said she and Barker “always” wish their friendship had moved on sooner. “We both think timing is everything and the timing was perfect, and I’m grateful for everything that led me to [him]she told Hirsch. “Exactly, you know, time and place and everything. But we say this. We’re like, ‘Oh, we could have had, you know, so many more years together and been doing all these things for so long.'”
Now, she says, they’re “figuring out how to merge our households” and their combined family of six, in addition to valuing their “time together.” They’re in no rush to move in together right now, she said, but one day “there will be” a home together. Kardashian Barker explained, “We want our kids to feel really comfortable. They’ve both lived in their homes all of their lives most of the time, and just, they each have their own bedroom. We’re one block away. Of house.”
