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Khloe Kardashian and ex-boyfriend Tristan Thompson’s second baby was conceived via surrogate, before she learned he had fathered a child with fitness model Maralee Nichols in March 2021 while they were still dating.

Following the news that the reality star, 38, and basketball player, 31, have another child imminently on the way, fans were quick to point out that Nichols’ pregnancy preceded the date Kardashian’s gestational carrier was inseminated.

Nichols, 31, conceived her six-month-old son Theo with the NBA star on his 30th birthday in mid-March just hours after he professed his love for Kardashian under a sweet birthday tribute she shared on her Instagram.

Nichols gave birth to Thompson’s third child, on December 1, though Tristan initially denied the infant was his until receiving the results of a paternity test.

In January 2022, the Chicago Bulls star admitted to being Theo’s father and penned a public apology to Khloe for his repeated philandering.

‘You don’t deserve this. You don’t deserve the heartache and humiliation I have caused you. You don’t deserve the way I have treated you over the years,’ Tristan, who has yet to meet little Theo, wrote.

Khloe previously revealed that she felt ‘numb’ after her older sister Kim broke the gut-wrenching news to her about Tristan’s secret child.

‘That was hard,’ she told USA Today. ‘I think the first time [Tristan cheated] it was either Kendall or Kylie that called me. Now it’s good old Kim.’

Khloe said she’s now ‘become numb’ to the pain, but that it doesn’t ‘make things any easier’ on her.

‘When you’re hurt so many times — your reactions, your responses to the same thing happening over and over again — there is a numbing sensation to it,’ the mother-of-one confessed.

After learning the news, while cameras rolled during the inaugural season of Hulu’s The Kardashians, Khloe vented to Kim that she was ‘fine’ but said it’s ‘so f***ed up that society blames’ women for getting cheated on.

‘It’s disgusting and deplorable of these people to talk about other people like that,’ she said. ‘There’s no empathy and no compassion. There’s just no sense of humanity.’

Meanwhile, Kim said she was ‘proud of Khloe’ for giving her relationship a second chance and knowing when to call it quits.

‘Even after he dogged her and embarrassed the s*** out of her. When the whole world is looking at you, laughing at you, calling you every name in the book – do you know how hard that is? That is ten times harder to stay in a situation than it is to leave,’ the mom-of-four stated. 

Kardashian’s rep confirmed the news of baby number two in a statement to DailyMail.com, which revealed the baby was conceived last fall.

‘We can confirm True will have a sibling who was conceived in November,’ the statement began.

‘Khloe is incredibly grateful to the extraordinary surrogate for such a beautiful blessing. We’d like to ask for kindness and privacy so that Khloe can focus on her family.’

A source close to the family insisted that Khloe and Tristan are ‘not back together’ and ‘haven’t spoken to one another since December outside of co-parenting matters.’

Though the baby’s arrival was confirmed in August, the first episode of season two of Hulu’s The Kardashians revealed that Tristan and Khloe’s son was born on July 28 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

The surrogate had ‘to go into labor early,’ so it was a mad dash to the hospital. 

Khloe was accompanied by her older sister Kim Kardashian in the delivery room. Once the baby arrived, she introduced him to her and Tristan’s four-year-old daughter True via FaceTime.

Tristan was not present for the birth but Khloe did arrange for him to meet their son.

‘I’ve been on the fence about letting Tristan come to the hospital or not, but Tristan wants to be here so I just figured, why not let him come? I’ll never get this moment back,’ she told viewers.

Khloe did not name her son at the time of his birth and the moniker is still unknown.

Khloe shared further details about the devastating moment she learned Tristan had fathered a child with another woman, including how the news broke just one week after they’d gone ahead with an embryo transfer.

She said that Tristan ‘encouraged’ her to continue on with their surrogacy journey despite knowing as early as July 2021 that Maralee Nichols was pregnant.

Because of the drama, Khloe felt as though a ‘dark cloud’ loomed over the arrival of their son and she did not originally want her family to throw her a baby shower.

She later allowed Kris to host the party, which was attended by the entire Kardashian-Jenner clan in the hopes of changing Khloe’s outlook.

Khloe hid the surrogacy news from the public – and only told her immediate family – out of fear of being bombarded with online hate ‘for months.’

Despite the unconventional and heartbreaking circumstances, Khloe said her son’s arrival has allowed her to officially ‘close that chapter and be done with’ the ‘trauma’ caused by Tristan’s paternity scandal.

Khloe is also determined to forgive Tristan as a way to continue to the move forward.

‘It only hurts me by holding onto all this stuff, so let it go. Let go and let God,’ she explained during the November 17 episode of The Kardashians.

Khloe and Tristan’s baby made his first appearance on the Good American founder’s Instagram on Halloween as they took their children trick-or-treating.

The newborn was dressed as the cartoon character Tigger but Khloe kept his face hidden from view.

The Halloween outing sparked reconciliation rumors but sources told TMZ that it was strictly a co-parenting matter. 

The child was also featured in the finale of The Kardashians season two, which aired Thursday, November 24.