It’s a full home! Chrissy Teigen and John Legend introduced that they’ve welcomed their fourth baby, a child boy by way of surrogate.
“For so long as I can bear in mind, I’ve at all times needed 4 youngsters,” the cookbook creator started her prolonged Instagram submit sharing the completely happy information on Wednesday (June 28). She went on to recall how as a baby, she’d typically have “2 glow worms and a couple of cabbage patch dolls” in her arms, and the way her mother would peek in Pound Puppies packaging earlier than shopping for to verify little Chrissy would get a stuffed pooch that had 4 puppies in its pouch.
“After dropping Jack, I didn’t assume I’d be capable of stick with it any extra infants alone,” she continued about dropping the little boy when she was 20 weeks pregnant in 2020. “To be trustworthy, I’ve personally blocked out quite a lot of my mindset throughout that point, however one clear reminiscence is being surrounded by individuals who needed to verify I wouldn’t undergo that ache and loss once more.”
The mannequin went on to share that she and husband Legend reached out to a surrogate company in 2021. Teigen stated that after a remedy session sooner or later, she informed the singer-songwriter that she needed to attempt to carry a child yet another time. “If it doesn’t work, we can be okay. We’ve already seen the worst,” she wrote. “I promised I might be okay it doesn’t matter what occurred. I bear in mind saying I simply couldn’t go on questioning my entire life if I ought to have tried once more.”
With the method of IVF — which the couple additionally employed when turning into pregnant with daughter Luna and son Miles — Teigen grew to become pregnant with child lady Esti, whom the couple welcomed in January. The TV character shared that across the time she grew to become pregnant, they met their surrogate, a lady named Alexandra who has since turn into a detailed pal.
“As we crept towards the protected zone of my very own being pregnant, we had been overjoyed to be taught Alexandra had turn into pregnant with a little bit boy,” Teigen revealed. “Our little boy. We ate sizzling pot to have a good time, watched Vanderpump Guidelines with our rising bellies, our households mixing into one for the previous 12 months.”
“Simply minutes earlier than midnight on June nineteenth, I bought to witness essentially the most lovely lady, my pal, our surrogate, give beginning amidst a little bit of chaos, however with power and pure pleasure and love,” Teigen continued, thanking Alexandra for the “unimaginable present.”
“We’re so completely happy to inform the world he’s right here, with a reputation without end linked to you, Wren Alexander Stephens,” Teigen concluded. “Our hearts, and our dwelling, are formally full. And to our Jack, we all know each their angel kisses are from you.”
The ultimate three photographs of Teigen’s carousel submit had been pictures of herself kissing Alexandra’s child bump, the couple snuggling with their new child, and — saving one of the best for final — an image of child Wren and his wonderful spiky mane of hair.
Legend additionally shared the completely happy information on his personal Instagram account. His submit featured a photograph of the star with all 4 of his youngsters — the 2 youngest in his arms, with Luna doing a excessive kick behind him, and Miles on his lap. He captioned his submit by introducing his new son: “Wren Alexander Stephens, our new love.”
See Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s submit asserting their new arrival under: