On the season premiere of Real Housewives of Atlanta, Kandi Burruss revealed that she was nearly a mom of five.
She and her husband, Todd Tucker, announced in September that they were expecting their second child together and using a surrogate. On the season 12 opener, Burruss shared that the surrogate was pregnant with twins, but lost one of the embryos.
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“We actually was supposed to be having twins, and then one of them didn’t continue,” she said. “I was sad at first, but then I just had to be grateful that the one made it.”
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Burruss and Tucker had discussed using a surrogate last season and were considering it after Burruss’ high-risk first pregnancy and history with noncancerous growths in the uterus.
“To allow somebody to carry my child inside of them? It was a tough decision to make,” Burruss revealed during the premiere. “I just feel like this whole situation is strange. I don’t get to be excited about the first kick. I don’t get to be excited about, ‘Oh no my baby bump is showing.’ I don’t get to be excited even about my boobs filling up with milk.”
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In addition to the baby, due this month, the couple is parents to Ace, 3. Burruss is also mom to Riley, 16, from a previous relationship, and Tucker is father to Kaela, 22.
Burruss and Tucker are excitedly looking forward to the new baby, but she admits that using a surrogate has been an emotional experience. “You have this guilt [and] sadness. So it’s a joyous, yet interesting experience,” she said.
You can watch the entire first episode of this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta, in which Kandi Burress discusses using a surrogate, below, via Bravo.
