It’s a baby girl for Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and her pop singer husband Kanye West, Vogue reports. The couple welcomed their third baby, born via a surrogate, on January 15th, they announced on Kim's app.
In November, Kim announced had the baby's gender on The Ellen DeGeneres Show: she's a girl!
She wrote: 'Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl. "
"We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give," Kim wrote.
The couple is yet to decide the name of the baby. They had given unconventional names to their eldest, 4-year-old North, and 2-year-old Saint.
The couple have been married since May 2014.
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The 37-year-old chose surrogacy after suffering from a condition called placenta accrete. She has also been spreading awareness about the condition on Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
"Being a mom is the most important job I have,” wrote the business woman
“I’ve come to the conclusion in my mind that I can’t carry another one. So now I want to explore surrogacy,” Kardashian West told her mother, Kris Jenner, earlier on the show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
The couple paid nearly $70,000 to a surrogacy agency to find a surrogate to carry the celebrity child. The surrogate was reportedly paid around $45,000 for 10 months of carrying out the pregnancy and $5,000 extra for a possible twin or triplet, reported USA Today.
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Kim told her sister Kourtney, “After talking to Kanye, I think I always knew that surrogacy was an option, but I didn’t think it was that realistic of an option, and now I feel like that’s my reality. I feel like surrogacy really is the only other option for me,” according to E!Online.
Since then the social media superstar’s followers have showered love to the new mom on social media.
Congratulations to Kim and Kanye.
We can’t wait to see the baby!
Picture credit- The Guardian
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