Kim Kardashian cried over breasts

May 19, 2010, 12:20 GMT

Kim Kardashian cried over her breasts when she started puberty.

The curvy socialite hated it when her body developed earlier than her schoolmates and was embarrassed by her changing figure.

She said: "I was the first girl in my class to wear a bra. I remember crying in the bathtub. All my friends were super-skinny."

The 29-year-old beauty even adopted a ritual in a desperate bid to stop her breasts growing.

She explained: "I took a washcloth, made it hot, put it over my chest and prayed, 'Please don't let them grow any bigger. They're embarrassing me.'"

Kim eventually changed her attitude after speaking with her mother Kris Jenner.

She told Shape magazine: "She helped me with my outlook: I have curves and that's never going to change, so I'd better start embracing them."

Kim recently admitted she only posed for Playboy in December 2007 because her mother encouraged her to do appear in the adult publication's pages.

She said: "I'm sorry I did Playboy. I was uncomfortable.

"'Go for it,' my mother said, 'They might never ask you again. Our show isn't on the air yet. No one knows who you are. Do it and you'll have these beautiful pictures to look at when you're my age.' "