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Maria Menounos goes to be a mother! The E! star, 44, has revealed she’s anticipating her first little one by way of surrogate with husband Keven Undergaro, 55. The longtime TV presenter revealed the completely satisfied information on February 7 in an announcement to PEOPLE. “Just after a decade of trying everything, we are so grateful to the beautiful family helping us conceive our baby,” Maria stated. “Keven, my dad and I are all beyond excited for this soul to come into our lives. What a blessing.”
The PEOPLE story additionally features a video of Maria watching an ultrasound along with her father Constantinos Menounos subsequent to her. “Guys, that’s my baby. I love you,” Maria stated within the clip. The One Tree Hill actress was emotional and overjoyed at seeing the ultrasound, after enduring a prolonged journey to motherhood.
Maria had beforehand mentioned wanting youngsters two years in the past throughout an episode of her Better Together present. She additionally teased a attainable transfer from Los Angeles to Nashville, Tennessee. “We are definitely entertaining this, by the way,” she stated of the attainable relocation. “It is beautiful, [and] we are going to have a family. We want to raise them somewhere where there will be kids next door to play with and you’re not afraid. L.A. just doesn’t have that.” Maria added that she and Keven had been within the the “kid phase of [their] lives.” Nevertheless, she clarified to PEOPLE the next day that the pair weren’t anticipating fairly but, however they had been on their strategy to parenthood!
On one other episode of her Better Together present from December 2020, Maria bought emotional whereas revealing that the promise of grandchildren helped her mom Litsa by her battle with stage 4 mind most cancers. “The thing I keep saying to my mom is, ‘We’re going to get better every minute of every day, Mom. Every minute of every day we’re getting better and better.’ … That’s my mantra,” Maria defined. “Yesterday, I said to her, ‘You gotta get strong, you gotta hang on — you’ve got grandchildren coming, and they might even be showing up…’ well, they’re definitely showing up next year. I was gonna say around a certain time, but I won’t share yet because I don’t wanna.” Congratulations to the mom-to-be!