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Kara DioGuardi is a new mother
Written by . Published: February 01 2013
Former American Idol judge Kara Dioguardi is a new mother after welcoming her first child via surrogate.
The songwriter and her husband Mike McCuddy are now the proud parents of little Greyson James Carroll McCuddy.
A gestational surrogate gave birth to the baby boy in Los Angeles
on Thursday (31Jan13), DioGuardi tells People.com.
The 42-year-old star gave her son the middle name Carroll in honor
of her late mother.
DioGuardi turned to a surrogate following a series of fertility
issues and failed in vitro fertilisation (IVF) attempts, and she
recently praised the unidentified woman, insisting, "She's given us
an incredible gift."