Gabrielle Union opened up and got real about how she felt about using a surrogate to have her daughter with Dwayne Wade while speaking to Marie Claire in their first-ever motherhood issue. For Gabrielle, she felt that she was a failure because her body couldn’t do what she needed it to do – carry a baby. Despite feeling this way, she had… Read More »Gabrielle Union Felt Like a Failure Using a Surrogate
In her twenties, Jessica Slice always told her friends and family that she was never going to have children. However, that all changed when she got heat exhaustion on a hike in Santorini, which then triggered a latent neurological condition and a genetic connective tissue disorder. Now, at the age of 28 she was permanently disabled and spent most of her time… Read More »She Didn’t Know She Wanted Kids, Until She Became Disabled
This week is National Infertility Week (April 20-26), and we wanted to focus on those who strive to make infertility and assisted reproduction a more normal conversation in our own lives. For example, Olivia Munn, an actress, and her husband, John Mulaney, a comedian, are being candid about becoming parents via surrogacy after 5 life-changing surgeries, breast cancer and a roller-coaster ride… Read More »Olivia Munn Gets Candid About Why She Choose Surrogacy
Another actress has utilized a surrogate in order to expand her family with husband/director, Thomas Kail. The couple welcomed their third child via surrogate just six weeks ago. This now makes Michelle a mother of four … her oldest is 18-year-old daughter Matilda, whose father is the late ‘Dark Knight’ star Heath Ledger. No details have been released from their representatives at… Read More »Another Actress, Michelle Williams, Uses Surrogacy to Expand Their Family
Michigan has finally joined the other states, such as California, Texas and Oregon, in making compensated – traditional and gestational – surrogacy legal. For everyone in Michigan who has wanted to be a Surrogate or Intended Parent, they are finally allowed to move forward in their state without the threat of civil and criminal penalties. The change occurred when the Assisted Reproduction… Read More »Michigan Finally Makes Compensated Surrogacy Legal TODAY!!
For many LBGTQ+ couples in Italy, the US has been the path to becoming a parent through surrogacy for decades. But why now? Well, this couple could be among the first Italians prosecuted under a new ban on domestic surrogacy, which has been extended as an outright ban on domestic surrogacy and procreative tourism making it a universal crime that transcends borders,… Read More »Gay Italian Couple Afraid to Return Home with Surrogate Son Born in the US
For many that work at Grindr, a popular dating app that focuses on LGBTQ+ relationships, their path to becoming a parent is through adoption or surrogacy. To meet the needs of its employees, Grindr recently started offering up to $300,000 over five years to workers to cover adoption, surrogacy, and fertility treatments once they have worked for the company for at least… Read More »Grindr Staff Pushes Company for Fertility & Surrogacy Benefits
On February 18th, President Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at expanding access to IVF in the US. Specifically, the order is meant to lower costs, expand access, and protecting IVF services in those states where the state laws are overly restrictive, such as Alabama where frozen embryos are considered “extrauterine children.” Many are applauding this Order, such as Barbara Collura, president… Read More »President Trump Signs Executive Order Expanding Access to IVF
As we told you in our last post, actress, Lily Collins and Charlie McDowell welcomed their first child, a daughter, just recently via surrogacy. While the couple never disclosed that they used a surrogate or that they were even pregnant until after she was born, the internet has gone wild about why she used a surrogate. Many are assuming that she used… Read More »Lily Collins & Husband Charlie McDowell Receive Backlash for Using a Surrogate
Before their surrogate baby, Peggy, was born in November of 2024, Kevin and his husband, Michael, decided that they wanted to videotape their journey and release it on YouTube. They decided to create an informational video series so that others can learn from what they had learned along the way on their four-year journey to parenthood in England. In the UK paid… Read More »Couple in UK Documents Their Surrogacy Journey to Help Others
