BOMBAY TIMES (January 23, 2022)

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her husband Nick Jonas took to social media on Friday night to share the news of the arrival of their first child. “We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate,” the couple’s statement said. They chose not to reveal their baby’s name or sex. “We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family,” the couple added. 

Priyanka and Nick’s colleagues and friends from Bollywood and Hollywood, including Katrina Kaif, Farhan Akhtar, Lara Dutta Bhupathi, Dia Mirza, Vishal Bhardwaj, John Legend, Octavia Spencer and Mindy Kaling among others congratulated the couple. Actor Kal Penn even offered the new parents some help. “Congratulations! Kalpen uncle is ready to babysit,” he wrote.

In her recent interview with an international publication, Priyanka had said that having babies is a “big part of our desire for the future. By God’s grace, when it happens, it happens. ” She had also indicated that they were ready to slow down the hectic pace of work. “We’re both okay with that,” she had. 

Talking about managing work and family simultaneously and possibly spending more time at home in 2022, she said that she is “craving balance. ” “I’m craving my family life,” she added.

Priyanka and Nick had tied the knot in 2018 in a grand wedding in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, after dating for four months.
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Rishabh Suri (HINDUSTAN TIMES; January 23, 2022)

Taking everyone by surprise (well, not so much after they had joked about ‘expecting’ on the Jonas Brothers Family Roast), actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas, 39, and her husband, singer Nick Jonas, 29, announced on Friday night that they have become parents via surrogacy.

The couple broke the news on social media: “We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family. Thank you so much.”

While everyone speculated on whether it was a boy or a girl, reports began to circulate that the couple’s first child is a girl. And Priyanka’s cousin, actor Meera Chopra, confirms to us, “Priyanka is gonna be a super mum to her baby girl. She always wanted to have lot of kids, so I am very happy for this new chapter in her life. She has excelled in every area of her life so being a mother is an extension to her powerful self. We are all very proud of her.”

According to the Daily Mail, they welcomed their daughter 12 weeks early at a Southern California hospital outside Los Angeles, US where she is expected to remain until she is healthy enough to go home. The source further said the couple had been wanting to have a baby together for ‘quite some time,’ but their busy schedules had gotten in the way.

“Priyanka doesn’t have any fertility issues preventing her from having a baby, but she is 39 now, so it’s not getting any easier. Their busy work schedules also mean that it’s difficult for them to physically be together to conceive when she is ovulating, so some time ago they went down the surrogacy route. This is the woman’s fifth surrogacy. They met her and really liked her,” claimed the source.

CELEBS WHO HAVE OPTED FOR SURROGACY IN THE PAST

KARAN JOHAR: Twins, a boy and a girl Yash and Roohi, in 2017

PREITY ZINTA GOODENOUGH: Twins, a boy and a girl, in 2021

TUSSHAR KAPOOR: A boy, Laksshya, 2016

EKTA KAPOOR: A boy, Ravie, in 2019

SHILPA SHETTY KUNDRA: A girl, Samisha, in 2020

SUNNY LEONE: Twin boys, Asher and Noah, in 2018

SHAH RUKH KHAN: A boy, AbRam, in 2016

SHREYAS TALPADE: A girl, in 2019