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Maury Povich opened up on Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast about how he and his wife Connie Chung decided to adopt and how they went about doing it
He described their decision to adopt as the best” decision they made and they “wouldn’t take it back”
Povich and Chung welcomed son Matthew, 30, through adoption in 1995 after they struggled to have a child
Maury Povich is getting candid about his and wife Connie Chung’s decision to adopt.
The Maury alum, 86, opened up on Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast about how he and his wife “went through the same stuff” that the podcaster is currently going through while trying to have a baby with her husband, Jelly Roll.
“We tried to get pregnant,” Povich shared of him and Chung, 79. “And this is — I’m telling you, this is over 30 years ago. And so Connie had to take time off from CBS, and it became a big story that we were trying to get pregnant.”
“And [the] late show guys, you know, Jay Leno and everybody was kind of making fun of [it]. ‘I wonder if Maury and Connie are doing it tonight?,’ ” he recalled. “You know? Doing all this kind of stuff to the point where Fox had this great show called In Living in Color. They did a skit on Connie and I in bed trying to get pregnant and Jim Carrey played me.”
Povich said he and Chung “finally adopted” because “we couldn’t do it,” and explained that “it was the best” decision they made and they “wouldn’t take it back.” Povich and Chung welcomed son Matthew, 30, through in 1995.
“First of all, Connie says, when we’re starting to adopt, Connie says to the lawyer that we hired, ‘So we want a child who is half Chinese and half Jewish,’ ” he recalled. “And the lawyer says, ‘You won’t live long enough. Nobody comes up like that. It’s not gonna happen.’”
While the search went off to a rocky start, they eventually found their son Matthew.
“So we have this guy, [Matthew,] and he’s just spectacular,” the actor and producer said with a smile. “And he’s now 30. He’s engaged. He and his girlfriend have been together for like nine or ten years.”
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Maury Povich with son Matthew.
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Bunnie Xo then asked him if they kept the adoption private, to which Povich admitted, “You know what happens? The tabloids find out.”
Despite this, Chung shared during a September 2024 interview with Today that welcoming Matthew into the family was “the most wonderful thing.”
“I was concentrating on myself and my job and everything. I was so self-absorbed. And then, all the sudden, I’m pouring all my love into this beautiful baby,” she shared.
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