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After a long journey,Maria Menounosis finally a mom.
“Maria is the happiest I’ve ever seen and she and Kev have this parenting thing down. That little girl is the luckiest and she’ll know it every day,” the insider tells PEOPLE.
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Speaking about the happy news onLive with Kelly and Ryanafter sharing the big news, Menounos said she’s “so grateful” and “super excited” for her new addition.
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“We’ve tried everything, literally everything,” she said of her fertility journey. “They tried to get me pregnant, that didn’t work. Keven had a surgery, that didn’t work. He’s hung me upside-down like a chicken, that didn’t work. We did everything. But we got so lucky.”
She then went on to thank Zoe Saldaña andKim Kardashianfor their help in her surrogacy journey.
“They both gave me their advice and people. Kim especially gave me this wonderful lawyer named Andy, he found me this woman Stephanie, who helped me find our surrogate,” she said.
source: people.com
