Gestational surrogacyis an increasingly popular, and increasingly visible, option for individuals and couples looking to have kids.
(Many same-sex couples, for instance, choose surrogacy.)
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And scroll through this slideshow of celebrities whove spoken about welcoming their own children through the surrogacy process.
Welcome to the center of our world Tove Jane McDowell, shewrote.
Words will never express our endless gratitude for our incredible surrogate and everyone who helped us along the way.
You expect things to come easy and they dont.
It doesnt matter who you are.
She and her husband, Jarret Stoll, welcomed their son, Mack, in June 2023.
I know the one thing my husband kept saying to people is, Its our baby.
And I was like, You dont have to say that.
But that worked for him for a while, you know?
He wanted to just say, This is our DNA.
She continued, Id like to see it not be such a sensitive thing in conversations.
I know people dont know what to say, but lean in a little bit.
Also, I want people that are going through it not to be embarrassed about it.
People can be so judgmental about surrogacy, she wrote forGlamour.They think youre rich because youre getting a surrogate.
Or youre doing it to keep your body intact.
People would ask why Id have a child in Donald Trumps America.
Eventually, she found a surrogate and welcomed twins with her husband, Gijs van der Most.
It was insaneover the top.
Theres not one word you’re free to use to describe it.
It was a marathon of emotions.
I was so tired, but had finally reached this goal.
They are two souls who joined the world, and it will forever change us.
She and Legend even gave their son the middle name Alexander in her honor.
Hilton and Reum welcomed a baby boy via surrogacy in January 2023.
Thank you for helping me start my own family, its an amazing gift.
The BEST gift!!
If it wasnt for Kimberly, I definitely dont think I would have been as comfortable, sheshared.
I wouldnt have been aware.
I wouldnt have known as much.
I was terrified of putting my life on hold for two-plus years.
Things are so quickly paced in what we do.
So its a compromise that we made together as a couple.
But all the struggle was worth it for son York, born in 2016.
It was meant to be, Banksreflected.
Im so grateful I was in a position where I could do this,she said.
So many things were bittersweet, the famously private Wiigrevealed.
At the same time I would tell myself it didnt matter.
She was giving us the greatest gift, and I just wanted them to get here.
Would our bond be even tighter?
They claim they dont know who is biologically whose.
(Though they have a theory.)
And then they found the surrogate.
She had a miscarriage, as well, so they tried so hard to have these children.
The couple used surrogacy again to have their second daughter, Frances Cole.
We see it as a very beautiful experience, Berkussaid in 2018.
