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‘Meet the Press’ moderator Kristen Welker to welcome second child via surrogate
The NBC anchor shared the news to offer "hope to others who are trying to build their own families."
NBC news anchor Kristen Welker announced that she and her husband John Hughes are expecting their second child via surrogate later this year.
During an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show, the “Meet the Press” moderator, 47, said she wanted to share the news in order to offer “hope to others who are trying to build their own families.”
“If you had told me five years ago that I would be the mother of a beautiful little girl and we would be about to welcome a second baby, I would not have believed you,” Welker told “Today” co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb. “Because it’s been such a long journey.”
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Welker has been open about her struggles to start a family. After two years of trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization, doctors told her that her uterus was too thin for childbirth.
In a 2021 interview, Welker said that she felt like a “failure,” and described it as “probably the lowest moment and realization that I’ve ever had.”
Welker and Hughes ultimately decided to turn to a surrogate, and their daughter, Margot, was born in June 2021.
Welker’s second child, a boy, will also be born via surrogate, who Welker called “an angel on Earth.”
“We continue to talk about this in part to remind families struggling with infertility that they’re not alone,” Welker said.
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