Giuliana and Bill Rancic are having a baby!
The couple will welcome their first child later this summer via surrogate.
“The baby is 100 percent genetically ours,” Bill, 40, told Us Weekly. “It’s our embryo.”
Giuliana, 37, had tried in-vitro fertilization several times. She also suffered a miscarriage and battled breast cancer in 2011. The couple froze her embryos.
“Everything happens for a reason, and we believe this is meant to be and the way it was supposed to work out,” he said.
“If she’d gotten pregnant, it probably wouldn’t have been a very good outcome because of all the hormones — it would have made the cancer surge. So this was the best option.”
The E! News host is now cancer free but she would have had to wait several years before trying to conceive a child.
“As soon as we heard that we moved forward with this plan,” she told Us Weekly.
Bill and Giuliana have decided to keep the surrogate’s identity private but did reveal that she is “a really nice girl who comes from a good family. Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!”
The couple considered adoption but they hadn’t begun the process.
They know the sex of the child, “but we’re seeing how long we can keep it secret,” Giuliana said on Today.
Congratulations to them!
