The INSIDER Summary:

• Khloe Kardashian revealed that she "definitely" wants to have children in an interview with the Daily Mail's You magazine.
• The reality star said that she and her boyfriend Tristan Thompson want to have children "when the time is right," adding that he is "a great dad" to his eight-month-old son.
• Kardashian said she is optimistic about her future with Thompson, and wants to get married.
• "I'm in the best relationship I've ever been in and it doesn't take a ring for me to feel that way," she said. "I believe in marriage and I want to be married again one day but I don't have a time frame."

In the season finale of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," Khloe Kardashian received some good news from her doctor after a fertility scare, learning that she can have children after all.

The reality star, who is dating NBA player Tristan Thompson, has talked about starting a family in the future, and shared more about her plans in an interview with the Daily Mail's You magazine.

"I definitely want a family, but I don't feel any pressure," she said in the August 12 interview. She added that "Tristan is a great dad"— the Cleveland Cavaliers player has an 8-month-old son with his ex — and said that "he definitely wants more children."

It doesn't look like they'll be having kids just yet, though.

"We both feel that it will happen when the time is right. We're still in a new relationship and I love us having time together," she said. "Once you have kids you can't get back your non-kid years. My sisters and I bother my mum all the time, so I know it's not, like, 'When they're 18, you don't worry about them again.' You worry about your children for the rest of your life."

Kardashian suggested another reason for waiting to have children. "The concern I have is raising little human beings in a world that's filled with such hate and terror," she said. "That seems very scary."

While she's not in a rush to have kids, the "Revenge Body" star is optimistic about her future with Thompson and said that she wants to get married again; Kardashian's divorce from her ex-husband Lamar Odom was finalized in December 2016.

"I'm in the best relationship I've ever been in and it doesn't take a ring for me to feel that way," she said. "I believe in marriage and I want to be married again one day but I don't have a time frame. Why do people think that marriage equates to happiness? There are a lot of people in unhealthy marriages."

At the moment, it seems that Kardashian is happy in her relationship and where it's headed.

As for having children, for the time being, she's content with being the fun aunt who babysits her nieces and nephews.

"My house is the fun house for my nieces and nephews," she said. "We do arts and crafts and bake a lot. We like to play outside and in the pool, just being goofy. I have water balloons and we have water fights. I'm like a big kid myself. At night when I babysit them we have dance parties. I love to give their mums the evening off."

She added that the highlight of her year was the arrival of her niece Dream, her brother Rob Kardashian's baby with Blac Chyna. "She looks exactly like him," she said. "I melt when I see him with her because he's a phenomenal father, just like my dad was."

Kardashian first publicly hinted at her plans to start a family with Thompson in the season 13 finale of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," which aired on June 11.

"Tristan and I definitely talk about starting a family," she said. "He wants to have five or six kids with me and that's lovely. We could start at one and we could grow from there. But now knowing I'm not on birth control is just like — it's scary. It's like a really big step."

"I am really, really excited about my future, just me and Tristan," she added. "We're doing so well and I'm looking forward to seeing where all that goes."

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