Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome daughter via surrogate

Kim Kardashian announced to her more than 100 million social-media followers Tuesday that her third child with husband rapper Kanye West was born Monday via surrogate.

“Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl,” the reality TV star, 37, posted on her official website under the headline “She’s here!” and the subhead “We’re so in love.”

Specifying the infant was born at 12:47 a.m., weighing 7 pounds, 6 ounces, Kardashian wrote, “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.”

She added that the couple’s daughter North, 4, and son, Saint, 2, “are especially thrilled to welcome their baby sister.”

No name was announced. Kardashian revealed on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on Nov. 15 that at the time she and West still had not decided on one. “We’re freaking out, we have no name,” she told the daytime talk-show host. “It’s so hard,” she said, adding that she and West were looking for something “short, easy to spell, one syllable. That’s kind of my vibe.”

Kardashian’s pregnancies with her first two children had been medically troubled, prompting the use of a surrogate. After suffering early-onset pre-eclampsia, the reality star delivered North almost six weeks early. Kardashian additionally suffered from placenta accreta, a high-risk condition requiring surgery. She had placenta accreta again after delivering Saint.

Kardashian had announced the surrogacy on “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” in April, telling her sisters Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian that her doctor warned her against carrying another baby. She then said in a camera insert that, “I always knew that surrogacy was an option, but I didn’t think it was that realistic of an option. And now I feel like that’s my reality,” noting she had spoken with West about the issue. “I feel like surrogacy really is the only other option for me.”

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Kardashian and West married May 24, 2014, in a lavish ceremony in Florence, Italy.