Why Adrienne Bailon kept her pregnancy a secret
As far as Adrienne Bailon was concerned, her mental health was a more important consideration than telling anyone about her pregnancy.
The former “Cheetah Girls” star said the good news that her surrogate was pregnant in an effort to keep her anxieties at bay. She quietly welcomed her baby, Ever James, earlier this month.
Bailon, 38, told People, “It was important to me for my own mental wellbeing and for my family. “I was just like, ‘I’m just not going to say anything.’ It was actually very peaceful that way. You didn’t have other people’s opinions.”
Ex-talk show presenter kept the joyous news to herself for nine months, despite her desire to tell her friends and audience.
“Honestly, everyone was shocked,” she explained. “Even my sister, who watched ‘The Real’ throughout the whole last season, literally said to me, ‘Adrienne, I am impressed.’ She’s like, ‘I am so proud of you. You are really holding this.’ I did that because it was really sacred to me.”
The actress broke her long-kept secret in an emotional Instagram post after what seemed like an interminable wait.
We are overjoyed to announce the arrival of our baby boy. There was a black and white snapshot of the three of them, and Bailon scrawled some words alongside it.
“We have quietly prayed while sitting on this most magnificent secret for the last nine months,” she said. “He is worth every tear, every disappointment, every delayed prayer, every IVF cycle, every miscarriage. Everything.”
Many people were happy for the singer once she announced she was a mother, including Khloé Kardashian, her ex-sister-in-law.
A home birth in an Airbnb in Lake Tahoe, California, was the setting for the birth of Bailon and Israel Houghton’s son.
After what she called a “nerve-wracking” surrogacy process, she said the day was “incredible.”
“Somebody else has your child with them. We call it extreme babysitting for nine months. It can cause you to be really anxious,”
“I feel like having people ask me, ‘How’s everything going?’ That would just add to my stress, so all I wanted was to find a source of inner calm, some daily pleasure, and a goal to work toward.
After Bailon’s eight unsuccessful IVF cycles and Houghton’s miscarriage, they decided to consider surrogacy.
She had been trying to help other ladies by being quite forthright about her infertility struggles over the years.
Despite the fact that Bailon and her husband had already employed a surrogate for one pregnancy and given up hope of having any more children of their own, she and her husband are determined to start a family.
“That’s the ultimate dream for me,” she mentioned . “I’m not giving up on that dream. Maybe I will carry one day and I can’t wait for that. I’m still hoping for that.”