Maria Menounos struggling with surrogacy journey

Maria Menounos revealed her journey to have a child has hit some roadblocks.

“I assumed, you understand, we’d have the surrogacy factor down. We’d be implanted by now. We’d have all this pleasure and that simply retains not working,” the 43-year-old stated on Tuesday’s episode of her YouTube sequence “Higher Along with Maria Menounos.”

She then joked that even her late mom, Litsa, was getting uninterested in her speaking about her journey however not having any updates.

“We’re attempting so arduous,” she added.

The previous E! host introduced in December that she and husband Keven Undergaro, 53, had been attempting to have a child and stated in an episode of her sequence that the prospect of her having kids was serving to Litsa — who died in May — get by way of her COVID-19 diagnosis and brain cancer battle.

“The factor I hold saying to my mother is, ‘We’re going to get higher each minute of each day, Mother. Each minute of each day we’re getting higher and higher.’ … That’s my mantra,” she said at the time.

“Yesterday, I stated to her, ‘You gotta get robust, you gotta grasp on — you’ve obtained grandchildren coming, they usually may even be displaying up…’ effectively, they’re positively displaying up subsequent 12 months. I used to be gonna say round a sure time, however I gained’t share but as a result of I don’t wanna — anyway!”

She additionally stated in January that she was considering moving to Nashville to lift their kids, remarking, “It’s lovely, [and] we’re going to have a household. We wish to increase them someplace the place there will likely be children subsequent door to play with and also you’re not afraid. L.A. simply doesn’t have that … particularly within the child section of our lives, [I] need one thing completely different. … I believe Nashville may be Mama Bear’s mattress.”

She clarified just a few days later that there was no current pregnancy.

The couple first introduced that they had been considering surrogacy in a 2018 interview following Menounos’ mind tumor elimination.

They tied the knot in a surprise New Year’s Eve wedding in 2017 and married again in Greece in October 2018.