Kim Kardashian appeared on Jay Leno's Tonight Show to discuss her recent weight loss and her plans to live life less in the spotlight.

The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star took a lot of flack for her pregnancy weight gain and the constant criticism left the new mother a little miffed. Kardashian explained that gaining 50 pounds was the "greatest challenge" of her life and attributes some of the weight gain to preeclampsia, a problem which caused her to have to deliver five weeks early.

"I really hurt my soul," Kardahian told Leno. "It changed how I am in the public a little bit. I would go out and there would just be photos of me anytime I was hungry or I was wanting to eat something and there were these stories where I was 200 pounds."

Now that the 33-year-old has dropped 50 pounds, she is choosing to spend more time with her new daughter and family in liue of constantly entering the public eye.

"I've defiantly tried to live more of a private life because of that, because they were so nasty," Kardashian explained. "Why even go out as much just to put yourself in that position?"

However, Kardashian did recently post a bathing suit selfie, calling it her "big middle finger to the world" and all those who referred to her as fat while she was pregnant.

Click through the slide show above to see Kardashian before, during, and after pregnancy.

Kardashian can be seen with the rest of her clan on Keeping Up With The Kardashians Sundays at 9 p.m. on E!.

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Celebrities, Kim Kardashian, Jay Leno, The Tonight Show