Maria Menounos Says Kim Kardashian Was the 1st Person to Learn Her Surrogate Was Pregnant

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Maria Menounos turned to her inner circle amid her fertility struggles, including pal Kim Kardashian who advised her on surrogacy.“I give her so much credit.

She helped us get started and guided me through the fears and the process,” Menounos, 45, exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “[Kim] really guided me to just trust and have faith.”The journalist says that Kardashian, 42, “was the first to know we were pregnant.” Menounos — who announced in February she and husband Keven Undergaro were expecting their first child — explains that she “couldn’t resist telling” Kardashian the good news at a gala in November 2022.“She’s such a chill, calm person,” Menounos tells Us of the Skims founder. “Anytime I had questions or needed advice, her responses were instant.

I had really leaned on her a lot.”Us exclusively debuted Menounos and Undergaro’s daughter, Athena Alexandra, on Wednesday, July 19.

Athena was born via surrogate on June 23.whom she wed in 2017, welcomed daughter Athena Alexandra on June 23 via surrogate.Menounos tells Us that Kardashian’s own fertility journey — which includes welcoming daughter Chicago, 5, and son Psalm, 4, via surrogate — gave her “the permission and the courage to say, ‘OK, I can do that too.’”Kardashian, for her part, gave birth to her and ex-husband Kanye West’s two eldest children, North, 10, and Saint, 7.