Adrienne Bailon Houghton Describes How She Helped Deliver Newborn Son During Home Birth (Exclusive)

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Adrienne Bailon Houghton is opening up the birth of her son, Ever, and the special way she welcomed him into the world. ET's Deidre Behar spoke to Adrienne and her husband, Israel Houghton, about life as parents to the newborn, whom they quietly welcomed via surrogate last month.«I hope that even by me not giving the information, it hopefully inspired somebody to say, 'I don’t owe this to anyone, I don’t owe an explanation to anyone about why, how,' and I think that there is that saying, 'Get out of my uterus.' As women, we have people constantly prying and asking questions that sometimes are just inappropriate and sometimes you don't wanna share, and I hope that this encourages somebody to know that they don’t have to feel bad about it,» Adrienne says about why she and Israel chose to keep the pregnancy a secret.«They don’t owe anybody that explanation,» she notes. «That, more than anything, that it is their journey to own, and it is all their own, and it is between them and their family and the people that love them.»While this is Adrienne's first baby (Israel has four children from a previous relationship — sons Jordan and Israel and daughters Mariah and Milan), the decision to use a surrogate to carry their son wasn't an easy one.

In fact, it came after the former  co-host underwent multiple rounds of IVF, which were taxing on both Adrienne and the married couple as a whole.«I know it sounds weird, but after everything I've been through, multiple miscarriages, I've done IVF eight times, so, I feel like to some extent, I owed it to myself to give myself that privacy, to give myself the right to have something sacred and something just for us, and our family,» Adrienne says.