Kim Kardashian has revealed her newborn baby daughter’s name.
The child has been named Chicago West. The name is sure to hold deep meaning for the reality star’s rapper husband Kanye West, who was raised in Chicago.
While certainly unusual, with older siblings named North and Saint a unique moniker for the couple’s third child was only to be expected.
Welcome to Chicago! Kim and Kanye West revealed the unusual choice of moniker on her blog
Kim announced the choice of name on her blog on Friday morning, in the form of a birth announcement.
The card also carried the baby’s January 15 birth date, alongside her birth weight of 7lbs 6oz.
Kim and Kanye hired a surrogate mother to carry their third child after the beauty suffered complications whilst pregnant with four-year-old North and two-year-old Saint.
Kim has previously taken to her app to send her gratitude to the woman who carried her baby.
Writing on her app on Thursday she said: ‘I absolutely love my gestational carrier and this was the best experience I’ve ever had. Our gestational carrier gave us the greatest gift one could give.’
She said of her newborn: ‘The connection with our baby came instantly and it’s as if she was with us the whole time. We are so excited to finally welcome home our baby girl.’
She explained that she had no choice but to use a surrogate, following health problems in her first two pregnancies.
‘I have always been really honest about my struggles with pregnancy. Preeclampsia and placenta accreta are high-risk conditions, so when I wanted to have a third baby, doctors said that it wasn’t safe for my – or the baby’s – health to carry on my own.’
Kim also noted that she found it ‘so hard’ to not be carrying her own child, and said anyone who thinks surrogacy is an easy option is ‘completely wrong’.
She said: ‘People assume it’s better because you don’t have to deal with the physical changes, pain or complications with delivery, but for me it was so hard to not carry my own child, especially after I carried North and Saint.’