Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West’s
third child and second daughter has arrived via surrogate, Kardashian West
shared via her website Tuesday.
The baby girl was born Monday, Jan.
15, at 12:47 a.m., weighing 7 lbs., 6 oz.
happy to announce the
arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,” she wrote in a post titled ‘She’s
Here!’
“We are incredibly grateful to our
surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give
and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care.”
The new addition makes five at the
West household; she joins big brother Saint, 2, and big sister North, 4½.
“North and Saint are especially
thrilled to welcome their baby sister,” Kardashian West adds.
The Wests tied the knot in Florence,
Italy, in May 2014, seven months after their engagement and almost a year after
the arrival of daughter North. Kardashian West, 37, gave birth to son Saint in
December 2015.
In June, a source confirmed to PEOPLE
that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star and West, 40, had hired a
surrogate to help expand their family.
Multiple sources revealed to PEOPLE
that the surrogate was pregnant in September, with Kardashian West confirming
the news herself later that month.
Two days after news of the pregnancy
broke, a source told PEOPLE the baby on the way would be another girl for the
family — and that the spouses were “thrilled,” sharing, “They are so excited
about their future baby girl.”
Kardashian West herself confirmed the
sex of her little one on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in November, explaining that
North was already calling her unborn sibling “Baby Sister.”
Of the cherry-blossom-themed soirée
she’d been the guest of honor at recently, the KKW Beauty mogul told Ellen
DeGeneres, “My daughter thinks she’s tricky. We had a baby shower over the
weekend, and I thought, ‘You know, I really do want to have a baby shower
because I want [North] to feel that something’s coming and for her to really
understand it.’ ”
In November, the now-mom-of-three
opened up to Entertainment Tonight about how she felt going the route of
surrogacy was actually more difficult than experiencing pregnancy, at least
emotionally.
“Anyone that says or thinks it is just
the easy way out is just completely wrong,” said Kardashian West. “I think it
is so much harder to go through it this way, because you are not really in
control.”
“Obviously you pick someone that you
completely trust and that you have a good bond and relationship with, but it is
still … knowing that I was able to carry my first two babies and not my baby
now, it’s hard for me,” she explained. “It’s definitely a harder experience
than I anticipated just in the control area.”
The new little girl is the first to
arrive during a bit of a KarJenner baby boom. Kardashian West’s sisters Khloé
Kardashian and Kylie Jenner are both expecting their first children in early
2018 — a girl for Jenner, 20, and a boy for Kardashian, 33.
But despite the closeness in their
kids’ ages, there is no jealousy among the trio. As a source divulged to PEOPLE
in October, “If there will be any friction at all, it’s that everyone is in
each other’s business. But that’s like any close family.”
“There
is no jealousy here,” added the close family insider. “No one is worried about
anyone stealing their thunder. It’s not dramatic like that.”
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