Surprise in the world of the heart. Ana Obregón has been the mother at the age of 68 of a girl by surrogate pregnancy. The news, which was given exclusively by the magazine Hello! , was placed in the media spotlight yesterday and reopened the ethical debate on obtaining babies through this assisted reproduction technique, which is illegal in Spain. The actress, presenter and biologist has resorted to a surrogate in the United States to gestate a baby. In the images offered by the publication, Ana Obregón can be seen leaving the Memorial Regional Hospital in Miami with her little girl in her arms. Mother and daughter left the center in a wheelchair, a rule of the hospital, which considers it its responsibility to ensure that both mother and newborn leave its facilities in perfect condition.
“A light full of love came into my darkness. I will never be alone again. I have lived again, ”Obregón wrote in the afternoon on his social networks. The little girl was born on Monday, March 20 and, according to the magazine, Ana, who traveled to Miami a few days before and has rented an apartment with views of the sea, remained in the hospital for three days, “without separating for a minute from her daughter ”, until on Wednesday the 22nd she was able to take her home with her.
The surrogate’s pregnancy occurred in June 2022, the same month that Aless, Ana Obregón’s son who died of cancer in May 2020, would have turned 30. Only Ana, her sisters Celia and Amalia, and her ex-partner and father of her son, Alessandro Lequio, knew that the process was underway. According to the magazine, Ana learned that the pregnant woman was in good health and that the baby was on the way.
On March 16, the actress packed her bags and headed to Miami alone. She settled in a rented apartment in the tourist area of ??the city to await the birth of the girl. There, on Saturday March 18, Ana celebrated her 68th birthday. On the 20th at eight in the morning she arrived at the hospital, north of Miami, where the girl was born healthy. Three days later, she was taking her daughter home. Now all that remains is to wait for the appropriate procedures to register the baby and obtain the necessary documentation so that both can return to Spain.
Bringing children into the world through so-called surrogates is a practice that many other celebrities have resorted to. At the end of January, it was Paris Hilton and her husband Carter Reum who announced that they had become the parents of a boy named Phoenix. The famous 42-year-old model and businesswoman, who had recognized her infertility on other occasions, decided to freeze her eggs in 2020 and finally resort to this practice.
The surrogate system is legal in the United States, both for couples and single-parent families. Carmen Cervera’s twins were born there in 2006, when she was 63 years old. The singer Miguel Bosé was also the father of twins, Diego and Tadeo, through a surrogate at the age of 55 in 2011. Previously, the singer Ricky Martin, currently father of four children.
The singer Miguel Poveda became the father of a boy, Ángel, who was born in a California hospital in 2015. The actor Javier Cámara was twins at the age of 50 in 2017. Other cases are that of the hotel businessman Kike Sarasola, who has two children, and the television broadcasters Kiko Hernández, father of twin girls, and Jaime Cantizano, of a boy. The soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo attended this practice to conceive his eldest son, Cristiano, 12, and the twins Eva and Mateo, 5. He has two other daughters with Georgina Rodríguez.
Among the Hollywood stars, there are actresses like Nicole Kidman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Ellen Pompeo, who have given birth to one of their children, who also opted for surrogacy in one of their maternity hospitals. Elon Musk and singer Grimes secretly had their second daughter through a surrogate in 2021. And a year earlier, singer Nick Jonas and actress Priyanka Chopra did the same. Other celebrities like Robert De Niro, Tyra Banks, Jessica Chastain, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Elton John and Jimmy Kimmel also chose this option.
In the Kardashian clan they know this practice well. Kim thus conceived her third child with Kanye West; and Khloé welcomed her second child with Tristan Thompson last summer. What he didn’t know was that the basketball player was expecting a child with another woman. But that is another topic.
