Chrissy Teigen and John Legend Welcomed a Baby Boy Via Surrogate

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, and three years after she with the couple’s third child, a boy named Jack. The couple welcomed their two eldest children, Luna and Miles, in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

Both were conceived by IVF. This content can also be viewed on the site it from. announced Wren’s arrival with a 10-slide Instagram carousel in which she explained her and Legend’s decision to use a surrogate after her pregnancy loss in 2020.“After losing Jack, I didn’t think I’d be able to carry any more babies on my own,” Teigen wrote. “To be honest, I’ve personally blocked out a lot of my mindset during that time, but one clear memory is being surrounded by people who wanted to make sure I wouldn’t go through that pain and loss again.” She and John reached out to a surrogacy agency in 2021, she explained, and initially inquired about using two “tandem surrogates” to carry babies simultaneously. “Twins, kinda?!” wrote Teigen.

Chrissy Teigen and her surrogate, Alexandra“At some point early in our surrogacy journey, I came out of a therapy session, walked downstairs and said to John—I want to try to carry just one more time,” she continued. “If it doesn’t work, we will be okay.” Around the time that Teigen became pregnant with Esti, the couple’s surrogate Alexandra lost her first embryo.

However, she tried again, and on the second attempt Alexandra successfully became pregnant with the couple’s fifth child, a baby boy, Teigen said. “We ate hot pot to celebrate, watched with our growing bellies, our families blending into one for the past year,” Teigen wrote.