This ^^ is one of my new favorite photos of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. Kim posted a ton of throwback photos to celebrate her one-year anniversary, and she ended up posting many never-before-seen wedding portraits and pre-wedding party pics. But this one, this is just… awesome. Kim looking at the camera (her best friend!) while Kanye sucks on her cheek like he’s a fish. It’s amazing. He’s not really kissing her face, it’s like he’s trying to give her cheek a hickey.

Anyway, a year has passed and it’s looking more and more like Kim and Kanye are going to need some help if they want to get pregnant or add to their family in any way. Many of you believe that Kim is “faking” her fertility problems because she’s always wanted to just use a surrogate (so she won’t have to “ruin” her body again). There’s something to that theory, but I also believe Kim has some legitimate fertility issues. In any case, Us Weekly says Kim and Ye are getting tired of IVF (which they’ve been trying for a while) and are now considering surrogacy.

There are a lot of ways to grow a family, and Kim Kardashian isn’t ruling out any of them. After unsuccessfully trying for a year to get pregnant again, the reality star is exploring other options with husband Kanye West — including surrogacy, a source reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. Until now, the Dash mogul has been trying to conceive the old-fashioned way — she joked that she and West have sex “500 times a day” — and via in vitro fertilization.

“Kim has been undergoing IVF,” the insider tells Us of Kardashian, 34, who welcomed daughter North West, 23 months, in June 2013, after a dramatic, difficult delivery. “It’s causing problems with her body.”

Indeed, as Keeping Up With the Kardashians fans saw on a recent episode, the star had to undergo a procedure to “clear something out of [her] uterus.” And on the May 31 show, she’ll reveal that an implanted embryo did not take. In part because of that, the couple may start to pursue a surrogate in June, the source tells Us, adding, “They will do surrogacy over adoption.”

Kardashian hinted as much during an interview with Matt Lauer last month. Asked about her fertility struggles during an interview on the Today show, she said the idea of surrogacy had been recommended to her, but that she and West, 37, were still mulling their options.

“I would like to hold out a little bit longer, and still try,” she told Lauer. “I still have hope, so I’m just going to keep on trying. Never say never. I mean, we haven’t talked about adopting.”

Whatever they decide, one thing is certain: Kardashian wants to give North a little brother or sister, and sooner rather than later. The source says she wants her daughter to have “a sibling close in age…just like she is with her sisters.”

[From Us Weekly]

I think… sure, I sort of believe that. I believe that they’ve been trying IVF and it hasn’t taken yet. I believe that they’ve probably been talking about surrogacy as an option for a while. I even believe that Kim was prepared to get pregnant again, even after her difficult pregnancy with North. Sometimes things ARE as they seem. Now, I think that once they do have a second child (by whatever means), that might be it for them. After all this drama, I think Kim will probably settle on being a mom of two.

Photos courtesy of Kim’s Instagram.