Adrienne Bailon Houghton is a mum!
The Cheetah Ladies, 38, star and former co-host of The Actual introduced the thrilling information to Instagram this morning, confirming she and her husband Israel Houghton, 47, have welcomed a child boy, Ever James Houghton, through surrogate.
“Ever James ♾ / For this youngster we’ve got prayed / Simply to listen to our child cry / Pores and skin to pores and skin and nose to nose / Coronary heart to coronary heart and eye to eye…,” Houghton started her heartfelt message.
“Our child boy is right here & we’re so in love! When you have adopted our love story… you recognize that our journey to child has been very difficult – However God is true to His phrase and His guarantees. Now we have quietly prayed whereas sitting on this most opulent secret for the final 9 months.
“He’s price each tear, each disappointment, each delayed prayer, each IVF cycle, each miscarriage. All the pieces. All we really feel is pleasure and overwhelming love & gratitude. Grateful to God, to our angel surrogate and to all of our family and friends who’ve stood with us for over 5 years on this journey. He is right here and we’ve got by no means been happier to lose sleep!#HappilyEverHoughton 🤍”
That is Houghton’s first youngster. Her husband, a gospel singer – the couple obtained married in Paris in December 2019 – has 4 youngsters from a earlier relationship, sons Jordan and Israel and daughters Mariah and Milan.
Houghton has been open about her struggles with fertility and the difficult journey she had been on to conceive, saying on The Actual in 2018 that getting pregnant, for her, was not as simple as she had first hoped.
“I believe so many individuals are very insensitive to that, within the sense [that] I do know you guys are like, ‘Is she pregnant?’ ‘Her face is fuller’ – FYI I’ve all the time had a extremely chubby face in order that’s not what it’s,” she stated.
“I believe that as an viewers we ought to be delicate to the truth that all people does not get pregnant instantly,” she continued.
“I believe for myself I believed it will occur so simply for me and it simply hasn’t occurred that method. I’ve needed to come to peace with that it will occur when it is God’s timing and I imagine in that and I think about all of that. However it may be actually discouraging and it may be actually irritating.”
