Travis Barker offered a glimpse of a recent hospital visit through his Instagram Stories on Tuesday, October 6, sharing images that showed family members accompanying him through the experience.
One photograph captured the 50-year-old musician in a hospital bed, dressed in a medical gown and cap, alongside his 20-year-old daughter, Alabama. In the caption, Barker wrote, "My baby girl came with me," as reported by Celebrity News: Latest Celeb News & Pictures - Us Weekly.
A second image showed his wife, Kourtney Kardashian, 47, kissing him as he was apparently being transported into an operating room, with Kardashian walking beside the gurney. Barker described her presence in the caption, writing, "And my beautiful wife [was] by my side," according to Celebrity News: Latest Celeb News & Pictures - Us Weekly.
The reason for Barker's hospitalization has not been made public by either Barker or Kardashian.
The couple married in 2022 and welcomed a son, Rocky, the following year. Barker, the drummer for Blink-182, and Kardashian each have three children from prior relationships.
Kardashian, who stars on The Kardashians, has spoken publicly about her path to welcoming Rocky in 2023, describing him as her rainbow baby after an earlier pregnancy loss. She pursued several rounds of IVF before becoming pregnant with Rocky without medical assistance.
In an October 2023 profile with Vanity Fair Italia, she explained her decision to step away from the treatments, saying, "The truth is, I felt like I was doing something that wasn't right for me," and adding that her intuition signaled the process was not suitable for her. She noted that she does not even take medicine and felt the treatments were working against her body rather than for it, as reported by Celebrity News: Latest Celeb News & Pictures - Us Weekly.
She also recounted that later in the pregnancy she encountered an undisclosed medical complication that necessitated emergency fetal surgery. Reflecting on the period afterward, she told the Italian magazine that following the procedure she reached a point of letting go and ceasing to worry, and that she now speaks to the baby daily, maintains a positive mindset, keeps her head straight, and says many prayers. She expressed feeling very lucky and grateful, with a great deal of gratitude, and observed that while she had gratitude before, she may have taken the pregnancy for granted when it came easily, as reported by Celebrity News: Latest Celeb News & Pictures - Us Weekly.
Since marrying Barker and welcoming Rocky, Kardashian has also reduced the time she spends with her well-known sisters. In a trailer for the upcoming eighth season of The Kardashians, her friend Simon Huck addressed the family dynamic, saying, "They think that Travis is shielding you from the family, which is probably the biggest misread of the century," as reported by Celebrity News: Latest Celeb News & Pictures - Us Weekly.
Kardashian agreed with that assessment and emphasized that her children remain her top priority. She stated, "I'm very happy with my life," according to Celebrity News: Latest Celeb News & Pictures - Us Weekly, and indicated that she does not dwell on what her siblings think about her choices. The Poosh founder has previously described her children as her "biggest priority."
The Kardashians season 8 premieres on Hulu on Thursday, October 8.
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