Family Karma's Amrit Kapai and Nicholas Kouchoukos embark on a surrogacy journey
Family Karmas Amrit Kapai and his husband, Nicolas Kouchoukoshave officially started their surrogacy journey.
“We are ecstatic. I think we're just at a point, both of us, where we want to continue to add layers to our relationship, our marriage, and we want to start a family,” Kapai shares exclusively in the latest issue of We weekly. “I feel like we've done everything. So much of it is so fleeting, but I think having a child is just a magical, exhausting, but magical journey. And we are both very ready to start that journey. We hope. Hoping, hoping for at least a pregnancy in 2024.”
According to Kapai, he and Kouchoukos, who married in April 2022, decided to pursue surrogacy in Colombia after a friend of his had “really good things to say about the process down there.”
“There were a few things that really stood out to us when we did it abroad. First of all, it was… a little prohibitively expensive to do it here. It's just so expensive,” he explains. “But apart from that, there were certain parts of the process that we in Colombia were very keen to hear about. For example, one was in Colombia, they will make as many attempts as it takes to have a baby in your life. poor.”
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Not to mention that the land isn't far from the couple's home in Miami. “The proximity of Miami to Bogotá is, I think, closer than Miami to Chicago,” Kapai added.
Kapai and Kouchoukos made their first trip to Colombia in September 2023, where they met with representatives from the surrogacy clinic, foundation and agency that will help them through their parenthood process. “Not only was it our introduction to Colombia and our first time there, but it was also our introduction to the process and an introduction to the different people who will play a role in bringing our child into the world,” says Kapai. Us.
As an LGBTQ+ couple, Kapai and Kouchoukos also met with a legal team to ask important questions about the country's laws regarding surrogacy and the queer community.
“What happens if Columbia decides in six months that they want to repeal some of their laws when it comes to surrogacy or when it comes to their LGBTQ+ laws?” Kapai asked. “Because Columbia is a very, very, very pro LGBTQ+ country right now… But what happens if that changes?
“That's such a legitimate concern for us because not only do we have to worry about, well, medically speaking, how this is going to happen, but legally speaking, the last thing we want to do is go through this whole process and then be told get that you can do that. “Not having your child back in the country for any reason,” Kapai says.
During their trip, the Bravo stars were also directly introduced to potential surrogates, although they have not chosen their surrogate yet. “We have selected our egg donor, which is very exciting,” Kapai reveals.
As for the details of the surrogacy, Kapai says he and his husband plan to perform an “egg split.” He adds: 'We will split the eggs and fertilize half with Nicholas' sperm, the other half with my sperm. So that way, because we want more than one, the children will have the same biological mother, different biological fathers, either my sperm or Nicholas' sperm.”
Although the couple hopes to have more children in the future, Kapai hopes their first will be a girl.
“I want to be a girl dad and buy her nice dresses and learn how to do her hair and all that fun stuff,” he says. Us. “But at the same time there are so many concerns. What if I can't be that motherly figure she needs? Don't know. But I mean, those are again things that I'm worried about right now, that I don't have to worry about right now.
And Kouchoukos is just as excited about parenthood, Kapai added: “I think he's more of a kid, I just want a baby, whether it's a boy or a girl.”
For more on Kapai and Kouchoukos, watch the video above and pick up the latest issue of We weeklyon newsstands now.
With reporting by Andrea Simpson