‘It’s my revenge body’: A slimmer Khloé gets her own back on Lamar

You go, girl.

Khloé Kardashian has been flaunting an incredibly toned and slimmed-down body in recent months, and she has finally revealed what motivated her to hit the gym. Just a week after getting oiled up and stripped off for Complex magazine, Khloe posed for another sexy shoot, this time with Women's Health.

Posing in an open denim shirt and a pair of skimpy black underwear, the reality star said exercise has become a huge outlet for her. It's something which has helped her to get over her rocky split from Lamar Odom, and to move on with new man James Harden.

But her gym addiction is by no means a new development. "It started around 2012," she explained to the magazine. "I was having a hard time with Lamar. It was toward the end of our union, and there was so much drama. I needed a release. At first it was so hard. It was baby steps, but I started feeling so much better."

The youngest Kardashian sister said it took her a while to start enjoying her workouts, especially once her trainer Gunnar Peterson began going hard on her. "The first 45 days you’re like, ‘F**k this s**t,'" she admitted. 

"You’re exhausted, you’re sore, and I actually felt fatter because I was swollen… If you keep going, you’re eventually like, ‘Wow, is that an indentation on my arm?'"

And as for the motivation behind her new look, the 31-year-old has no problem saying Lamar had a little something to do with it… though it's not all for him. "Yeah, it’s a revenge body. But it’s just as much for all my critics who called me ‘the fat one’ for my entire existence," she said.

Diet is just as much a part of any physical transformation as exercise is, but Khloé said she hasn't taken healthy eating to any crazy extremes just yet.

"I love treating myself. I’m a foodie," she explained. "If I could control what I eat, I would have the best body ever. But because I have no self-control, and I don’t really care to have it, I have to work harder. I would rather work out harder and eat what I want, in moderation… If I want a pizza, I’m gonna have it. So I had pizza last night and it made me very happy."

Khloé said she gets her large appetite from her family, but she is learning to educate herself more about food. "Being of Armenian descent, we don’t make small dinners," she said of family gatherings in Calabasas. "I love to cook and have my wine, but I’m more aware now."

We LOVE her new attitude… and her new look. Take that, Lamar.