Maria Menounos and Husband Keven Undergaro Welcome First Baby Together, Daughter Athena

The former 'E! News' correspondent and her husband have welcomed a baby girl named Athena

Maria Menounos photographed at her home in Los Angeles, CA, on April 28, 2023.
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After a long journey, Maria Menounos is finally a mom.

The TV personality, 44, and husband Keven Undergaro have welcomed their first baby together via surrogate, a daughter named Athena, a source confirms to PEOPLE.

"Maria is the happiest I've ever seen and she and Kev have this parenting thing down. That little girl is the luckiest and she'll know it every day," the insider tells PEOPLE.

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Maria Menounos attends the "Once Upon A Time In Queens" Los Angeles Premiere at NeueHouse Los Angeles on September 10, 2021 in Hollywood, California.
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A rep for the couple confirmed Menounos and Undergaro's joyful baby news exclusively to PEOPLE in February.

"Just after a decade of trying everything, we are so grateful to the beautiful family helping us conceive our baby," Menounos told PEOPLE. "Keven, my dad and I are all beyond excited for this soul to come into our lives. What a blessing."

Speaking about the happy news on Live with Kelly and Ryan after sharing the big news, Menounos said she's "so grateful" and "super excited" for her new addition.

Keven Undergaro and Maria Menounos attend the premiere of Sony Pictures' "Bloodshot" on March 10, 2020 in Los Angeles, California.
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"We've tried everything, literally everything," she said of her fertility journey. "They tried to get me pregnant, that didn't work. Keven had a surgery, that didn't work. He's hung me upside-down like a chicken, that didn't work. We did everything. But we got so lucky."

She then went on to thank Zoe Saldaña and Kim Kardashian for their help in her surrogacy journey.

"They both gave me their advice and people. Kim especially gave me this wonderful lawyer named Andy, he found me this woman Stephanie, who helped me find our surrogate," she said.

"We're just so so grateful because these people really help you bring life forward and without them we wouldn't be able to do this," Menounos continued. "Our surrogate and her family are literal angels, I'm so grateful that we're going to have this extended family that our baby will be part of and we're just so grateful to everybody that's helped us along the way."

Menounos' exciting news was first reported by Us Weekly.

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