On the heels of Kim Kardashian's pregnancy news [1], Glamour magazine has released a sneak peek of the reality star's cover story [2] for its July issue. In addition to chatting about how she and husband Kanye West [3] feel about welcoming their second child together, Kim also touches on her fertility struggles, how she hopes daughter North West will react to fame, and step-dad Bruce Jenner's transition into a woman. Read on for highlights from the piece, which hits newsstands on June 16, and then check out Kim and Kanye's road to baby number two [4] and her sexiest maternity looks [5].

• On giving North West a baby sister or brother: "We are so beyond excited."
• On being candid about her fertility struggles on Keeping Up With the Kardashians: "I didn't know that I was going to be so open with [my fertility challenges]. But meeting people at my fertility doctor's office who are going through the same things I'm going through, I thought, Why not share my story? It's been really emotional."
• On Bruce: "No matter what, we love Bruce. I'm so proud of him for being so brave. I know he feels great that his whole family does support him. I feel for people that don't have that support. There's such a high suicide rate in the transgender community, which is heartbreaking. No one should feel alone."

• On helping Bruce with his new look: "I was like, 'If you are going to do this, you cannot look a mess.' I went shopping. I'm helping him pick glam teams. He has to look good — or she has to look good. When he becomes she, which will be in the near future and remain that way full-time, I'm prepping her to have the best wardrobe and hair and to feel really good about herself. I know she would want that."
• On Kanye's and her connection: "There was flirting before, so it was obvious there was attraction, but there was a moment in my mind that clicked when I was like, I'm going to give this a shot. I was probably so tired of bullsh*t in the past. I'd gone through a divorce six months before. And I was like, This guy has never bullsh*tted me. He had made it clear that this is what he wants. Why don't I give it a shot?"
• On raising North in the spotlight: "I mean, I chose this life, but North hasn't. When she was born, I would just pray, 'I hope you can handle this life.' But since she's our daughter, I know that she can handle it. When we take her out, there will be tons of paparazzi; I say to everyone, 'Hey, I've got the baby with me. Please don't say one thing to me.' They've actually been OK."
• On Kanye not wanting North to wear high heels: "Today North put on these Manolo heels of mine and was walking perfectly around my closet. I sent Kanye a video of her; he was like, 'Tell her to stop! She cannot grow up, she cannot wear your heels.'"

• On not seeing herself as a role model: "I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way. Are there things I'd take back? I don't know if I'd take back the lessons that I've learned. Yeah, there are things that I can be embarrassed about or wish didn't happen, but if I didn't have all those bad, crazy things, would I be who I am today? I don't know."
• On dealing with negative chatter online: "I have developed a thick skin. After I went through my [last] divorce, I saw so much hate, people writing the nastiest, craziest things — stories that weren't true, that [the marriage] was fake for TV. Come on. I would never, ever, ever do that. Think about it. If it was fake, I would have picked someone who had signed something to not make my life so difficult afterward, you know?"