Kim Kardashian reveals brain aneurysm in season seven premiere

Kim Kardashian disclosed that doctors found a small brain aneurysm during the season seven premiere of her family’s reality show, which aired Oct. 23, and said she believes extreme stress played a role. The 45-year-old entrepreneur and television personality is shown undergoing imaging in the episode and telling her sister Kourtney Kardashian, "There’s, like, a little aneurysm," before describing physicians’ assessment that stress was likely a factor.

Kardashian later updated viewers during a Good Morning America appearance, saying she followed the initial Prenuvo whole-body scan with additional brain imaging at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "Everything works out," she told the program, and encouraged people to be proactive about their health. On the episode, she also voiced strong emotional reaction, saying, "Last night I was like, 'Why the fuck is this happening?'" and linking heightened stress to the end of her marriage and ongoing co-parenting with her ex-husband, Kanye West.

Medical experts note that a brain aneurysm is a bulging or weakened area in a blood vessel in the brain that can, in rare cases, leak or rupture. Many aneurysms remain unruptured and asymptomatic and are...