Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are now parents to four children.
Teigen announced the arrival of their son, Wren Alexander Stephens thoughtful instagram post On Wednesday, she shared how her baby boy was born through a surrogate on Monday, June 19.
In her post, the cookbook author detailed her unique experience of being pregnant while also being pregnant with her “incredible, loving, compassionate surrogate,” Alexandra, who gave birth to Wren just five months after the star gave birth to daughter Esti in January brought.
Teigen chose IVF while working with her surrogate in hopes of realizing her dream of having four children. The star and legend already shared daughter Luna, 7, and son Miles, 5, at the time.
Five months into Teigen’s pregnancy, she found out that Alexandra was expecting their baby boy.
They celebrated by watching reality TV, “with growing bellies, our families merging into one for a year,” she said.
“Just minutes before midnight on June 19th, I had the privilege of witnessing the most beautiful woman, my friend, our surrogate mother, in the midst of chaos but with strength, sheer joy and love, give birth to her child,” continued Teigen.
“We want to say thank you for this incredible gift, Alexandra,” she added. “And we are delighted to announce to the world that he is here, with a name that will forever be linked to you, Wren Alexander Stephens.”
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“Our hearts and homes are officially filled,” she added.
Teigen also recalled the words of her late son Jack, “We know both of her angelic kisses are from you.”
The model and her EGOT husband lost Jack in October 2020 after she experienced complications during her pregnancy.
dough wrote about their experiences Taking to Instagram at the time, she shared, “We are in shock and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before.” Despite bagless blood transfusions, we were never able to stop the bleeding and ours Giving baby the liquid it needed. It just wasn’t enough.”
Though Teigen’s pregnancy loss was widely thought to be a miscarriage, she later revealed that she had a life-saving abortion when doctors told her she was carrying a “baby that had absolutely no chance” of surviving the birth.
“Let’s just call it what it was,” Teigen said during a September 2022 conversation, “It was an abortion.”
