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Chrissy Teigen and John Legend welcome fourth child via surrogate, shares adorable snaps of newborn son

'We are so happy to tell the world he is here, with a name forever connected to you, Wren Alexander Stephens,' wrote Chrissy Teigen

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend welcomed their fourth child via surrogate. The newborn's arrival comes after the model gave birth to daughter Esti in January and tragically lost their baby Jack at 20 weeks gestation in September 2020. 

Teigen and Legend, who are also parents to five-year-old son Miles and seven-year-old daughter Luna, revealed the name of their fourth child on Instagram. "We are so happy to tell the world he is here, with a name forever connected to you, Wren Alexander Stephens," the cookbook author wrote while Legend also revealed the name in the caption of the pictures that he shared on Instagram.

Teigen shared why she chose surrogacy

In the lengthy Instagram post shared by Teigen, she talked about wanting more children after she lost her baby Jack. "After losing Jack, I didn’t think I’d be able to carry any more babies on my own. To be honest, I’ve personally blocked out a lot of my mindset during that time, but one clear memory is being surrounded by people who wanted to make sure I wouldn’t go through that pain and loss again," she wrote.

"In 2021, we reached out to a surrogacy agency, with our first correspondence inquiring about perhaps having 2 tandem surrogates, to each bring us a healthy baby boy or girl. Twins, kinda?! At some point, early in our surrogacy journey, I came out of a therapy session, walked downstairs, and said to John - I want to try to carry just one more time. If it doesn’t work, we will be okay. We’ve already seen the worst. I promised I would be okay no matter what happened. I remember saying I just couldn’t go on wondering my whole life if I should have tried again," Teigen continued.

"And so we restarted the IVF process, the same process that gave us our beautiful Luna and Miles. We made new embryos. We did my transfer, and were happy to learn it worked -- we were pregnant with our little girl, Esti," she added.

Talking about the "compassionate surrogate" the couple found, Teigen said, "Around this same time, we also met the most incredible, loving, compassionate surrogate we could ever imagine, Alexandra. I knew she was a perfect match for us the moment we spoke to her. All our wishes and dreams aligned. I wanted to be her friend, I wanted our children to play, I wanted dinner together, and I wanted to lay my head on her belly and be able to feel the hiccups and kicks. I wanted them to be in our lives for as long as time would allow."

Teigen then revealed that Wren was born "just minutes before midnight on June 19th" amid "a bit of chaos but with strength and pure joy and love."

'Chrissy, I think, wants more'

Legend previously shared that they have planned to have more children. "Chrissy, I think, wants more. I'm one of four, so I'm cool with it. I was like, you know, once you get into that zone it's a lot of folks -- especially when you're traveling, [it] gets difficult," he told ET in September 2022.

"Chrissy and I, you know, we get on a lot of planes together and once you have four kids, it gets logistically -- it gets complicated," the singer added. Praising his older children, the 44-year-old said, "They have each other, you know, Luna and Miles will be older siblings now and there's enough of a gap to where we don't have to micromanage their every moment."