True’s little brother! Khloé Kardashian is a proud mom of two after welcoming her second youngster with Tristan Thompson through surrogate — and now, she’s lastly sharing him with the world.
The season 2 premiere of The Kardashians, which began streaming on Hulu on Thursday, September 22, documented the 38-year-old actuality star’s journey to accepting that she was having child No. 2 within the aftermath of Thompson’s paternity scandal. She revealed they planted the embryo “days” earlier than she realized he was having “a child with any individual else.”
“Ever since December, it’s been this darkish cloud looming over me,” Kardashian mentioned. “Each single day, I’ve been feeling depressed and unhappy, and now that my son is right here, I get to maneuver on, and I get to get pleasure from. It’s nearly like I get to shut that chapter and be completed with this trauma and put it behind me. Now I lastly get to begin the therapeutic course of. Now I get to begin having fun with my life with two children in it and figuring this out.”
She continued: “That is gonna be day one, and that is gonna be the beginning of one thing optimistic, and glad and exquisite.”
Us Weekly confirmed on August 5 that the Good American cofounder and the NBA star — who additionally share 4-year-old daughter True — had welcomed their second youngster collectively through gestational service. “Each child and mom are very glad and wholesome. Khloé is so thrilled to increase her household,” a supply instructed Us on the time.
The Kardashians star’s rep introduced final month that the previous couple had been gearing as much as welcome child No. 2, which is Thompson’s fourth. (The Canada native additionally shares son Prince, 5, with Jordan Craig and son Theo, 9 months, with Maralee Nichols.)
“We will verify True can have a sibling who was conceived in November,” a rep for Kardashian instructed Us in a press release in July. “Khloé is extremely grateful to the extraordinary surrogate for such a gorgeous blessing. We’d wish to ask for kindness and privateness in order that Khloe can deal with her household.”
The Robust Appears to be like Higher Bare creator and Thompson dated on and off between 2016 and 2021, calling it quits for good late final 12 months after Nichols, 31, sued him. The health mannequin’s December 2021 lawsuit alleged that she slept with Thompson that March, earlier than his breakup from the truth TV star, and that he was the daddy of her toddler son. After initially denying Nichols’ claims, the previous Cleveland Cavaliers athlete confirmed Theo’s paternity after a DNA take a look at in January.
Kardashian, for her half, realized of her then-partner’s scandal after information broke, which was chronicled on her household’s Kardashians docuseries.
“I discover out what Tristan is doing with the remainder of the world. A courtesy can be not doing it. However positive, when you do it, you aren’t even going to present me a f—king heads-up earlier than the remainder of the world?” the Hulu character mentioned in a June episode after sister Kim Kardashian despatched her the courtroom paperwork. “It’s simply a further slap in my face. It’s humiliating. I’m embarrassed. I would like to be alone than to be round folks.”
Amid the drama, Khloé had beforehand been candid about exploring surrogacy to increase her household.
“True’s getting older and I really feel like it’s now time to have one other child,” the Revenge Physique alum instructed the Chicago Bulls athlete in a February 2021 episode of Preserving Up With the Kardashians. “I’m gonna want you. Now we have to line it up together with your schedule so I could make embryos with my frozen eggs. … I believe I’m able to do the entire being pregnant factor once more. This course of would possibly take time. I don’t know. I need to be ready.”
Regardless of welcoming their second youngster collectively, Khloé has made it clear that she’s since moved on from Thompson.
“Tristan has realized that he’s a parental determine to True and the brand new child [and] that’s all he’s to Khloé proper now,” a second insider instructed Us final month of the Khloé & Lamar alum, noting that the pair hardly converse outdoors of coparenting conversations.
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