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Congratulations are successful bid for Maria Menounos and her hubby Keven Undergaro! After a decennary of trying to commencement a family, the mates are blessed to denote the accomplishment of their archetypal kid via surrogacy! Mario and Kevin confirmed to Us Weekly connected July 19 that their daughter, Athena Alexandra, was calved connected June 23. “It was the astir peculiar infinitesimal of my life,” Maria gushed, of holding her newborn for the archetypal time.
In the Us Weekly interview, the mates besides shared the archetypal photos of Athena. Maria said that being a ma feels “euphoric,” and said that she and Keven see Athena to beryllium their “miracle baby.” She added, “It felt amazing, but besides truly natural, similar we had been unneurotic a agelong time.”
Keven Undergaro and Maria Menounes welcomed their archetypal babe together. (MEGA)
The accomplishment of the caller bundle of joyousness comes aft Maria precocious revealed her harrowing battle with cancer. In January 2023, six years aft having a benign encephalon tumor removed, the TV property was diagnosed with Stage 2 pancreatic cancer. She secretly underwent country a period aboriginal to person a 3.9 cm tumor removed, on with her spleen, a ample fibroid and 17 lymph nodes. “I had that infinitesimal wherever I thought I was a goner,” Maria recalled successful an interrogation with PEOPLE. “But I’m good due to the fact that I caught this aboriginal enough.”
The roadworthy to parenthood for Maria and Keven, who joined successful 2017, was already a hard 1 adjacent earlier the crab diagnosis. “Just aft a decennary of trying everything, we are truthful grateful to the beauteous household helping america conceive our baby,” Maria told the outlet successful February 2022. “Keven, my dada and I are each beyond excited for this psyche to travel into our lives. What a blessing.” It was lone a twelvemonth earlier erstwhile they had astir fixed up hope, aft archetypal starting IVF treatments successful 2012. “I decidedly didn’t deliberation it was going to instrumentality this long. It’s been years. We’ve utilized antithetic services, antithetic people,” she told the outlet successful February 2022. “It’s conscionable been a precise frustrating process.”
It each worked out, of course, but not earlier Maria and Kevin got a spot of assistance from her A-list friends! “Zoe Saldana and Kim Kardashian person been truthful adjuvant to maine successful this journey, and they some gave maine each their proposal and people,” Maria said connected the Feb. 7 occurrence of Live with Kelly and Ryan. “And Kim particularly gave maine this fantastic lawyer named Andy, and helium recovered maine this woman, Stephanie, who helped maine find my surrogate. We’re conscionable truthful grateful due to the fact that these radical truly assistance you bring beingness forward. And without them, we wouldn’t beryllium capable to bash this.
“Our surrogate and her household are literal angels,” Maria added astatine the time. “I’m truthful grateful to person this extended household that our babe volition beryllium portion of and we’re conscionable truthful grateful to everybody who’s helped america on the way.”
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