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Shah Rukh, wife name surrogate baby AbRam
Shah Rukh, wife name surrogate baby AbRam
“The baby was born much before the speculations of ‘sex determination’ and other ‘issues’ in the media”IANS/MumbaiBollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan yesterday confirmed for the first time the premature birth of his and his wife Gauri Khan’s surrogate baby boy, who has been named AbRam.Shah Rukh, 47, made the news official about his surrogate baby via a statement. “Amidst all the noise that has been going around, the sweetest is the one made by our newborn baby, AbRam. He was born prematurely by several months, but has finally come home,” said Shahrukh.“Gauri and our whole family have been dealing with his health issues for a long time now,” he added.Explaining his longstanding silence on the matter, he said: “As a family, our silence on this subject has been because of the personal nature of emotional strife that we have been going through due to his health.”The superstar also put the record straight that “there was no sex determination for our child”. “The baby was born much before the speculations of ‘sex determination’ and other ‘issues’ pertaining to the same were being raised in the media by some organisations. Suffice to say his coming home puts to rest completely false and at times insensitive claims of sex determination and alleged illegalities,” he added.On his part, the actor-producer has also apologised to “all those other doctors and hospitals who had to face unwanted scrutiny and questioning by some parties”, and he has thanked the doctor concerned, Jatin Shah, for his expertise and contribution to make the surrogacy successful.