The pair started relationship in 2016, however the relationship has been constantly dogged by infidelity. Tristan was accused of dishonest on Khloé simply days earlier than she gave delivery to their first baby, True, in 2018. They gave issues one other shot, however Tristan was caught dishonest once more simply months later with Kylie Jenner’s former finest pal, Jordyn Woods.
Since then, they have been fairly on and off. However after rekindling their romance through the COVID-19 lockdown, they determined to have one other baby collectively — this time by way of surrogate on account of Khloé’s elevated threat of miscarriage.
Nonetheless, late final 12 months, information broke that Tristan had cheated once more — this time with private coach Maralee Nichols, who turned pregnant on Tristan’s thirtieth birthday in March, and gave delivery to their son in December 2021. Tristan denied the kid was his till DNA assessments proved in any other case.
However what we did not know on the time was that Khloé and Tristan’s surrogacy journey had progressed a lot that they had been additionally anticipating a child collectively.
Information that Khloé and Tristan had been anticipating child quantity two broke in July this 12 months, with the pair welcoming a boy later that very same month.
However now Season 2 of The Kardashians has returned to our screens, we have realized the entire particulars of the surrogacy journey and paternity scandal — together with that Tristan was actively pressuring Khloé to go forward with their child plans whereas realizing full effectively that Maralee was pregnant.
In the course of the episode, Khloé revealed that Tristan had discovered that Maralee was pregnant on July 2 2021 — an entire 4 months earlier than their surrogate underwent an embryo switch round Thanksgiving on Nov. 25.
However simply days after the embryo switch befell, Khloé was hit with the information on Dec. 3 that Tristan was having one other baby.
And Khloé went on to confess that Tristan had really been “encouraging” her to go forward with their surrogacy plans and the embryo switch “by a sure date” — presumably as a result of he knew when his different child was on account of be born.
“All I do know is I used to be being inspired to do it by a sure date,” Khloé defined throughout one confessional. “In hindsight, he at all times knew when the opposite child was being born — particularly getting the paperwork that we noticed, he discovered July 2, so he did know.”
And in one other telling scene from the present, Kris, Kendall, Kim, and Kylie gathered to debate the state of affairs, with Kris and Kendall in settlement that Tristan had intentionally talked Khloé in to going forward with having a second child to be able to “entice” her.
In the course of the assembly, Kylie stated, “I simply don’t love the truth that Tristan knew that this was occurring.” Kendall replied, “That is what’s wild. Like, you had been encouraging Khloé to go ahead with this whilst you knew that this was additionally occurring? It is nearly like he wished to entice her.”
Kris Jenner agreed: “Nicely, he wished to hold onto her for certain, and thought that possibly in the event that they did that she would marry him.”
To make issues worse, regardless of there being a lot hypothesis that Tristan and Khloé had cut up for good over the summer time of 2021, she made it clear within the episode that they had been really very a lot nonetheless collectively — and he or she’d supposed to boost their household with “mother and pa” within the “similar residence.”
“I believed this was an actual, wholesome, loving, protecting relationship,” Khloé stated by means of tears throughout her confessional.
Khloé went on to elucidate that she was petrified of the information of their second child being made public, due to the vitriol she faces on-line — together with being known as an “fool” and a “dumb bitch” — every time Tristan is caught out.
She was additionally eager to spotlight that she had no concept that Maralee was pregnant when she determined to go forward with the embryo switch.
“We did an embryo switch days earlier than Thanksgiving,” she stated. “I discovered about Tristan’s state of affairs the primary week of December, and it’s simply so shut, I wouldn’t need anybody to assume I did this after the very fact.”
“Why would I’ve a child with somebody that’s having a child with another person?” she added. “I’m not that a lot of a sociopath. I’m a lunatic however not, like, that deranged.”
Khloé and Tristan welcomed their son, whose title hasn’t but been revealed, on July 28. And whereas Khloé determined in opposition to having Tristan there on the delivery, she did enable him to return to the hospital to satisfy the child afterwards.
