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Paris Hilton is beginning 2023 with a brand new title — mother!
The businesswoman and media persona, 41, and husband Carter Reum lately welcomed their first child collectively, a son, by way of surrogate, PEOPLE can affirm.
“It is all the time been my dream to be a mom and I am so blissful that Carter and I discovered one another,” the brand new mother tells PEOPLE completely. “We’re so excited to start out our household collectively and our hearts are exploding with love for our child boy.”
Sharing the thrilling information on Instagram Tuesday, Hilton posted a close-up picture of the newborn gripping her thumb. “You’re already cherished past phrases 💙,” she wrote.
Hilton has beforehand been open about her want to turn into a guardian alongside Reum, 41.
Throughout an interview with PEOPLE in December, the Love Rush perfume founder mentioned the couple’s plan to have a child after the pair tied the knot late final 12 months, sharing that she and Reum started the in-vitro fertilization (IVF) course of throughout the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We began going and doing it like a number of months in as a result of the world was shut down,” she instructed PEOPLE. “We knew we needed to start out a household, and I used to be like, ‘That is excellent timing. Normally, I am on a aircraft 250 days out of the 12 months, and let’s simply get the entire eggs stocked and prepared,’ and we’ve got tons of them simply ready.”
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Hilton and Reum obtained engaged in Feb. 2021 after greater than a 12 months of relationship and tied the knot in a three-day wedding ceremony ceremony that November. A longtime pal of the Hilton household, Reum — a Chicago native — is an creator, entrepreneur, and began enterprise capital agency M13.
“I’ve gotten the distinctive alternative to get to know the true Paris each day, simply the 2 of us throughout these previous 15 months, and I could not be extra excited and fortunate to have her as my future spouse and companion,” Reum stated in February 2021. “She shines together with her kindness, work ethic, authenticity and her voice in making the world a greater place, and she’s going to do the identical as a future mom and spouse.”
In an April episode of Nikki and Brie Bella’s The Bellas Podcast, Hilton mentioned the joy she and Reum share about increasing their household.
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“I really like being married. I simply really feel like I lastly discovered my excellent match and I simply really feel so secure,” Hilton stated of Reum. “I lastly have my house and I simply can’t wait to start out a household and have children.”
Explaining that she and Reum have “been speaking about children because the starting — because the first couple, like, months of relationship,” Hilton stated that the pair “would like to have twins.”
“I believe that may be superb,” the “Stars Are Blind” singer added, earlier than noting that they want “three or 4” kids general.
