Maria Menounos and Keven Undergaro Welcome First Child - Find Out Her Name!

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Maria Menounos is officially a mom! The TV host and her husband, Keven Undergaro, have welcomed their first child. The couple announced the happy news in an interview with on Wednesday, revealing the first photos of their newborn daughter and her beautiful name. «It was the most special moment of my life,» the new mom, 45, shared. «The doctor literally grabbed her and hiked her onto me.

I sat with her on my chest, and Keven and I kept looking at each other like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It was just pure joy.»Undergaro added, «It was like Christmas morning times a million.»Athena Alexandra was born on June 23 via surrogate following a decade of fertility struggles for the couple. «Athena is our miracle baby,» Menounos gushed. «I'm so grateful for her.»A post shared by Us Weekly (@usweekly)Menounos revealed back in February that she and Undergaro had worked with Family Match Consulting to conceive their child. «Just after a decade of trying everything, we are so grateful to the beautiful family helping us conceive our baby,» she said at the time. «Keven, my dad and I are all beyond excited for this soul to come into our lives.

What a blessing.» Menounos has been vocal about the ups and downs of her lengthy journey to parenthood. «It’d be really nice if there was one in here right now,» Menounos shared with ET back in 2018 of her desire to be pregnant. «I think we're ready to figure it out.

They only weird thing is that I froze embryos and now I can’t implant them because if I implant them and do all the hormones, the tumor will grow [back.] So, there is one way around it that we're investigating right now and then otherwise a surrogate.»Menounos was diagnosed with a meningioma brain tumor in February 2017, at the same time her.