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Rob Kardashian opens up about his years in seclusion

Rob! Kardashian! Speaks! You can't promote a new TV show very effectively if the star never talks to the media. And so it has come to pass that Rob Kardashian has decided to open up to People mag in advance of the Sept. 11 premiere of his E! show Rob & Ch

Rob! Kardashian! Speaks!

You can't promote a new TV show very effectively if the star never talks to the media. And so it has come to pass that Rob Kardashian has decided to open up to People mag in advance of the Sept. 11 premiere of his E! show Rob & Chyna. The series will track Rob's daily life with his fiancée, Blac Chyna (Angela Renée). Ms. Chyna already has done much to generate hype for the show: She's pregnant with the couple's first child. (I get the feeling that baby will be born on national TV.)

Rob, 29, tells People he went into a two-year seclusion on the eve of sis Kim's gazillion-dollar Versailles-and-Florence-set wedding.

"I was doing my suit fittings in Paris right before the wedding and I just wasn't comfortable. . . . I'm six-foot-one and at my most I probably weighed 300 pounds," says Rob. "I was very unhappy with the person I saw in all the [pre-wedding] pictures."

He adds, "I'm upset I missed my sister's wedding, but it was a personal decision."

Rob stopped appearing on his clan's TV show. "I'm very good at disappearing," he says.

He says he knows he "definitely hurt a lot of people" when he retreated in a shell to attain better physical health.

He credits Chyna with helping him get "through my darkest times" and vows "never go to that place again."

We are so happy to hear it.

Chris Brown out on bail

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'Game of Thrones' casts JB

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