Model Chrissy Teigen and singer John Legend have just welcomed a new son.
Wren Alexander Stephens was born June 19, Teigen, 37, was revealed in an Instagram post on Wednesday. The new baby is the couple’s fourth child and the first born through a surrogate.
Image of Wren Alexander Stephens, the new born child of model Chrissy Teigen and singer John Legend.
Chrissy Teigen/Instagram
“As long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted four children,” wrote Teigen, though she wondered if she could get pregnant again after having a miscarriage in her third pregnancy in 2020.
“After losing Jack, I don’t think I’ll be able to hold any more babies on my own,” she wrote.
Teigen writes that she and husband Legend, 44, contacted a surrogacy company in 2021 with the intention of “having two surrogates in parallel, so that each will bring us a boy or baby healthy girls”.
But early on in their surrogacy journey, Teigen says she finished one session of therapy and decided she wanted to try again.
“And so we restarted the IVF process, the same process that gave us beautiful Luna and Miles,” wrote Teigen, referring to her first two children with Legend, respectively. born in 2016 and 2018.
“We created new embryos. We did my transfer and are delighted to hear that it works — we are pregnant with baby girl Esti,” who was born in January of this year.
Meanwhile, the couple was also in the early stages of surrogacy for Wren and met Alexandra, “the most incredible, loving, compassionate surrogate we could imagine,” the last one. will give birth to a new boy for them.
Teigen revealed that the couple paid tribute to Alexandra by Wren’s middle name, Alexander, “a name forever attached to you,” Teigen wrote to her agent in her post. . “We want to thank you for the incredible gift you have given us, Alexandra.”
When Alexandra was pregnant with Wren, Teigen wrote that they celebrated with hot pot and “watched Vanderpump Rules with our growing bellies,” as Teigen was still pregnant with Esti at the time.
Chrissy Teigen kisses the pregnant belly of her surrogate before giving birth to her fourth child, Wren Alexander Stephens.
Chrissy Teigen/Instagram
“Just a few minutes before midnight on June 19,” said baby Wren.
“Our hearts and our homes are officially full. And to our Jack, we know both of their angelic kisses were from you,” the model concluded her post.
The legend marked the occasion by posting a photo of him and their children on Instagram with the words: “Wren Alexander Stephens, our new love.”
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