Kendall Jenner Gets Real About the 'Guilt' of Her 19-Year Struggle with Anxiety: 'We All Have S---' (Exclusive)

'The Kardashians' star and self-professed "control freak" addresses the years when she had "no clue" what was taking a toll on her — and makes a plea for "a little compassion"

Kendall Jenner is getting honest about how her anxiety has affected her conscience.

The 27-year-old supermodel opens up about her history with anxiety and reveals she wasn’t able to put her finger on the feeling she would get in her chest until much later in life in PEOPLE’s exclusive clip from Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians.

“I think I was about like, eight, from what I remember,” she tells the cameras. “But I thought there was like, something physically wrong with me. Like, I made my mom take me to a heart doctor and a lung doctor and a brain doctor and all these people because I thought something was wrong with me.”

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Noting how “people didn't really talk about anxiety the way they do now,” Jenner says, “I never knew that that's what that was until later in life being like, ‘Oh, that's what that was that whole time.’ And I had no clue.”

The scene shifts to Jenner having a heart-to-heart discussion about her anxiety with Scott Disick, who adds that people can often be quick to judge based on her appearance, career and financial status.

“Everybody's got a problem,” he says while Jenner adds, “Yeah, I think that's the common misconception. It's like, we're all human and we all feel.”

“I have definitely struggled with a little bit of guilt for even feeling anxiety or feeling unwell because I do have a lot of blessings and I am a really lucky person. But we all have s--- to a certain degree,” she says in a confessional interview. “So I think just a little more compassion would be nice.”

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This isn’t the first time that Jenner has opened up about her anxiety.  In a May 2021 chat with psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula for Vogue's "Open Minded" series, Jenner recalled her early experiences with the disorder.

"I remember being really young – I'd say 8, 9, 10 – and having shortness of breath and going to my mom and telling her that," she recalled.

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The 818 founder noted that as she gained more fame, her mental health took a toll.

"I think being overworked and being in the situation that I'm in now is kind of what set it out of control in a way," she said. "I've had times where I feel like I need to be rushed to the hospital because I think my heart's failing and I can't breathe and I need someone to help me. Sometimes I think I'm dying."

"I'll never sit here and say that I'm not fortunate. I know I live a very privileged, amazing lifestyle. I'm a very blessed girl," she said before noting, "I'm still a human being at the end of the day."

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