The rumor of Kim Kardashian expanding her family isn’t just set to become a reality…
… it’s set to become a reality in the fairly near future.
According to Us Weekly sources, the surrogate hired by Kardashian and Kanye West is already pregnant.
Moreover, she’s over three months along, meaning Saint and North will have a sibling as early as this January.
We know, right?!? WHOA!
The story hasn’t been reported on in several weeks, but Kim and Kanye allegedly agreed in mid-June to hire a woman to carry their third child to term.
They did so because Kim badly wants a large family, yet doctors have advised her that getting pregnant again would be dangerous as a result of her medical condition.
(Kardashian has been diagnosed with placenta accreta.)
“It would be a really dangerous environment for me if I were to get pregnant again,” Kim said last season on Keeping Up with the Kardashians after consulting with a physician.
As a result, TMZ confirms that Kimye chose to pay a surrogate $ 45,000 in multiple installments.
The arrangement requires the surrogate to agree to certain guidelines (e.g. no drinking or smoking while pregnant; a bonus if she were to produce twins, which has actually been rumored, etc.) in exchange for giving birth to a child that will then be adopted by Kim and Kanye.
The couple has reportedly chosen a San Diego mother in her late 20s, someone who was referred to them by an agency and someone who has served as a surrogate on at least one occasion in the past.
We don’t yet know if she’s pregnant with a boy or a girl.
“I have so many siblings and I love it, they’re my best friends and I would love that for my kids,” Kim told Ellen DeGeneres during a 2014 appearance on her talk show.
However, two pregnancies plagued by Kim’s potentially life-threatening condition prompted her and Kanye to ponder alternative options, rather than enduring another high-risk situation.
At various times over the last year or so, Kris Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian have volunteered to serve as a surrogate for their loved ones, but no one really took those offers too seriously.
This is all pretty darn exciting.
And not just because it will provide Keeping Up with the Kardashians with a storyline that could easily keep it on the air for another two or three seasons.
But we’re talking about another Kimye baby!
We wonder what he or she will look like! We wonder how he or she will fit into the family!
And, yes, we of course wonder what he or she will be named. Really, it could be anything.
