Adrienne Bailon hasn’t been shy about sharing her fertility struggles with followers. However, when the Cheetah Women star discovered that the surrogate her and her husband Israel Houghton employed was pregnant again in December, she opted to preserve the information to herself for the sake of her psychological well being.

Bailon first discovered that her surrogate was pregnant on December 11, 2021. “Actually, everybody was shocked,” Bailon defined to PEOPLE, saying she solely informed six folks near her. “Even my sister, who watched The Actual all through the entire final season, actually mentioned to me, ‘Adrienne, I’m impressed.’ She’s like, ‘I’m so pleased with you. You’re actually holding this.’ I did that as a result of it was actually sacred to me.”

Bailon and Houghton welcomed their child boy Ever James in August. They shared the information on Instagram on August 16. “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 luxurious secret for the final 9 months,” Bailon captioned a candy snap of her, her husband, and their son.

“He’s value each tear, each disappointment, each delayed prayer, each IVF cycle, each miscarriage. All the things. 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’s right here and we’ve got by no means been happier to lose sleep!”

Having expertise 5 years that’s the emotional rollercoaster of navigating fertility points, Bailon felt this was an essential transfer for “my very own psychological wellbeing and for my household. I used to be similar to, ‘I am simply not going to say something.’ It was really very peaceable that method. You did not have different folks’s opinions.”

The previous The Actual host has beforehand skilled eight failed in-vitro fertilization cycles and a miscarriage. She then determined to look into surrogacy, which she admits was “fairly nerve-wracking.”

“Anyone else has your little one with them. We name it excessive babysitting for 9 months. It may well trigger you to be actually anxious. You are simply considering, ‘Oh, is the whole lot going okay? What’s occurring?’ I really feel like having folks ask me, ‘How’s the whole lot going?’ That was going to make me that rather more anxious, so I simply wished to have peace and have slightly pleasure that I may maintain for myself day-after-day and one thing to sit up for.”

Congrats to the brand new household of three!