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Two weeks after announcing that he and his wife had welcomed a baby girl, new dad
Jimmy Fallon reveals their daughter
Winnie Rose was born via surrogate.
“It wasn’t really a secret, but my wife and I had been trying for awhile to have a baby. We’ve tried a bunch of different things, so we had a surrogate,” the
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon host says in a new interview with
TODAY.
Having faced fertility struggles before, Fallon, 38, and his wife
Nancy, 46,
chose to keep the exciting news to themselves, preferring to celebrate with family and friends once they were officially first-time parents.
“This time we just said we’re not going to tell anybody, it’d be just more fun if it’s just private between me and my wife and then we get to introduce her to everybody,” Fallon explains.
But when Winnie finally made her big debut, the couple’s decision to keep the pregnancy quiet caused a last-minute run around.
“When it happened we were in shock. We’re like, ‘Alright, who do we tell? Who’s going to be mad at us if this gets out?’” he recalls. “We had to call everybody and it’s so emotional when you call everybody.”