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Tyler Henry Reveals Maria Menounos' Parenting Future
Maria Menounos volition soon person an other subordinate successful her family.
The Better Together author, 44, and her hubby Keven Undergaro, 55, are expecting a baby, a rep for the mates rep confirmed to E! News. Their babe quality comes aft 10 years of trying to commencement a family.
"Just aft a decennary of trying everything, we are truthful grateful to the beauteous household helping america conceive our baby," Maria told People successful a Feb. 7 statement. "Keven, my dada and I are each beyond excited for this psyche to travel into our lives. What a blessing."
In February 2022, the Extra alum—who underwent country 5 years prior for a benign encephalon tumor—got candid astir her and Keven's struggles with fertility, noting that she "definitely didn't deliberation it was going to instrumentality this long."
"It's been years," she told People astatine the time. "We've utilized antithetic services, antithetic people," adding that she began IVF treatments a decennary ago. "It's conscionable been a precise frustrating process."
As Maria explained, she and Keven—who tied the knot successful 2017 aft dating for much than 2 decades—first began considering surrogacy successful 2018. During their process, she consulted with person Kim Kardashian, who welcomed her girl Chicago, 5, and lad Psalm, 3, with the assistance of surrogates, adding, "I was grateful that I had her to stock and assistance me."
But successful 2021, the couple's travel took an unexpected crook erstwhile their archetypal surrogate was nary longer a lucifer medically.
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"That was a truly hard breakup due to the fact that we had been unneurotic connected the travel for astir 2 years," she continued. "She was conscionable truthful beauteous and truthful astonishing and precise diligent with us."
The One connected One alum went connected to explicate their process earlier the devastating news.
"There's thing called a mock rhythm that my fertility doc suggested due to the fact that we lone person 2 truly bully embryos and we privation 2 kids," Maria shared. "What would hap is the uterine lining wouldn't turn to that past signifier wherever you could safely implant and cognize that the embryo would stick. Had we not done [a mock cycle], we would've astir apt mislaid our lone chances."
But they ne'er mislaid hope—and kept readying for the future.
"Hopefully each volition beryllium well," she added. "And we'll get 2 small brats that I volition archer each day, 'You person nary thought what we went done to bring you here! You amended bash large things successful this world.'"
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