Chrissy Teigen welcomes baby #4!

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Congrats to them!

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, I'll be the jerk.

I continue to be disturbed by the casual use of surrogates by celebrities, but especially by celebrities who already have kids or who are clearly capable of having kids themselves. I understand surrogacy better in situations of infertility or same-sex couples where it's your best bet for having a child at all. I do not understand surrogacy in this situation, especially after JUST having another baby. This is truly a situation of just renting a woman's womb, and it makes me uncomfortable, regardless of how well compensated I'm sure the surrogate was.

Also, given Teigan's social media activity and how much she posts about her kids online, this absolutely feels like a Hilaria-esque effort to create more content factories by having more kids and ensuring her feeds can be full of cute kids (she and Legend absolutely have adorable kids, no question) for the foreseeable future. Plenty of celebs have lots of kids but don't splash them all over their social media constantly or use them in promoting their projects.
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It all feels exploitative to me. I know people will say "but she lost a baby, have empathy." And I do, I have enormous empathy for what Teigan and the whole family went through with the still birth. But that doesn't mean I endorse all her choices, and honestly this one makes me uncomfortable.

At least I believe the kids will be loved and obviously they have the financial resources for four kids, so there is that.

Anyway, go ahead and tell me I'm "just jealous" or scream at me for not being thrilled for them.

I know she posts family stuff, but to me it doesn't feel like it's in a "like/subscribe/follow Miles' YouTube" kind of way. More like a person you know IRL posting shots of recitals or vacations. I'd be willing to bet her highest engagement numbers are on modeling/lots of skin pictures of herself, not the kid stuff (excepting baby announcements, I guess).

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to know how MANY nannies they have with four children. I have four children, and had one nanny. Her mother lives with her, but I bet there are also nannies. Any time I look at her social media it seems like they have tons of random people hanging around their house. I want to know how many are on payroll.

It is none of your business. Try to absorb that.

Lol. That’s a crazy thing to say about a person who shares so much of her life on social media. This is not someone guarding her family’s privacy.

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It’s definitely a little weird that she was describing the concurrent surrogates as possibly carrying “twins” but Chrissy has weird ways of describing things sometimes.

I can understand her conflicting feelings about the whole process while desperately wanting another baby after all the heartache. It doesn’t seem like there’s any shortage of love or money in her home. Maybe it wouldn’t have been how I would have done it, but I’m happy for her family.

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2 surrogates? So there’s yet another baby on the way?

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Anonymous wrote:2 surrogates? So there’s yet another baby on the way?

I don't think so. I think they decided they didn't need a second when Chrissy was able to carry on her own and that they wanted four kids total.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, I'll be the jerk.

I continue to be disturbed by the casual use of surrogates by celebrities, but especially by celebrities who already have kids or who are clearly capable of having kids themselves. I understand surrogacy better in situations of infertility or same-sex couples where it's your best bet for having a child at all. I do not understand surrogacy in this situation, especially after JUST having another baby. This is truly a situation of just renting a woman's womb, and it makes me uncomfortable, regardless of how well compensated I'm sure the surrogate was.

Also, given Teigan's social media activity and how much she posts about her kids online, this absolutely feels like a Hilaria-esque effort to create more content factories by having more kids and ensuring her feeds can be full of cute kids (she and Legend absolutely have adorable kids, no question) for the foreseeable future. Plenty of celebs have lots of kids but don't splash them all over their social media constantly or use them in promoting their projects.

It all feels exploitative to me. I know people will say "but she lost a baby, have empathy." And I do, I have enormous empathy for what Teigan and the whole family went through with the still birth. But that doesn't mean I endorse all her choices, and honestly this one makes me uncomfortable.

At least I believe the kids will be loved and obviously they have the financial resources for four kids, so there is that.

Anyway, go ahead and tell me I'm "just jealous" or scream at me for not being thrilled for them.

There is fertility issues…she did IVF to conceive all her babies.

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Anonymous wrote:This made my jaw drop a bit but I'm very happy for them. At least from my viewpoint, they appear to be a very loving family.

Who has a surrogate have a baby when they’re already pregnant with another? This feels like family manufacturing, not need.

I’m assuming it’s the timing- she wanted another and started making steps towards surrogacy but then also got pregnant

except the timing means the surrogate got pregnant when she was pregnant. so they purposefully spaced the babies out 5 months. weird.

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Anonymous wrote:This made my jaw drop a bit but I'm very happy for them. At least from my viewpoint, they appear to be a very loving family.

Who has a surrogate have a baby when they’re already pregnant with another? This feels like family manufacturing, not need.

I’m assuming it’s the timing- she wanted another and started making steps towards surrogacy but then also got pregnant

The other baby is older. So the timing would have been intentional. She was already pregnant and wanted another.

No, she laid it out in her post. They were working with two surrogates because they wanted two more kids. Then she decided to try one more time to have a baby on her own - got pregnant. Surrogate got pregnant and then miscarried. Surrogate had to have surgery before trying again, got pregnant again when Chrissy was 5 months along. Baby she carried is born, then baby the surrogate carried is born.

It's way outside my family-planning mindset, but it's not intentional timing any more than using a surrogate at all would be intentional timing. They intended to have the first pregnancy make it to term.

huh? the surrogate pregnancy happened after the natural pregnancy. so it was intentionally timed to space the babies 5 months.

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Anonymous wrote:This made my jaw drop a bit but I'm very happy for them. At least from my viewpoint, they appear to be a very loving family.

Who has a surrogate have a baby when they’re already pregnant with another? This feels like family manufacturing, not need.

Not your call or business though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This made my jaw drop a bit but I'm very happy for them. At least from my viewpoint, they appear to be a very loving family.

Who has a surrogate have a baby when they’re already pregnant with another? This feels like family manufacturing, not need.

Not your call or business though.

Np if this conversation bothers you so much why comment at all?

BTW Wren is a girls' name

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Anonymous wrote:This made my jaw drop a bit but I'm very happy for them. At least from my viewpoint, they appear to be a very loving family.

Who has a surrogate have a baby when they’re already pregnant with another? This feels like family manufacturing, not need.

I’m assuming it’s the timing- she wanted another and started making steps towards surrogacy but then also got pregnant

The other baby is older. So the timing would have been intentional. She was already pregnant and wanted another.

No, she laid it out in her post. They were working with two surrogates because they wanted two more kids. Then she decided to try one more time to have a baby on her own - got pregnant. Surrogate got pregnant and then miscarried. Surrogate had to have surgery before trying again, got pregnant again when Chrissy was 5 months along. Baby she carried is born, then baby the surrogate carried is born.

It's way outside my family-planning mindset, but it's not intentional timing any more than using a surrogate at all would be intentional timing. They intended to have the first pregnancy make it to term.

huh? the surrogate pregnancy happened after the natural pregnancy. so it was intentionally timed to space the babies 5 months.

"Natural"? You mean the IVF cycle that resulted in her getting pregnant? Even then there was no guarantee she would make it to term, as was what happened with Jack. I don't think they even got a reason why. Just something that happened. They didn't want to put all their eggs into her basket as it were. Maybe pregnancies were getting very hard on her?

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Anonymous wrote:I just want to know how MANY nannies they have with four children. I have four children, and had one nanny. Her mother lives with her, but I bet there are also nannies. Any time I look at her social media it seems like they have tons of random people hanging around their house. I want to know how many are on payroll.

It is none of your business. Try to absorb that.

Exactly! They are mega millionaires.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, I'll be the jerk.

I continue to be disturbed by the casual use of surrogates by celebrities, but especially by celebrities who already have kids or who are clearly capable of having kids themselves. I understand surrogacy better in situations of infertility or same-sex couples where it's your best bet for having a child at all. I do not understand surrogacy in this situation, especially after JUST having another baby. This is truly a situation of just renting a woman's womb, and it makes me uncomfortable, regardless of how well compensated I'm sure the surrogate was.

Also, given Teigan's social media activity and how much she posts about her kids online, this absolutely feels like a Hilaria-esque effort to create more content factories by having more kids and ensuring her feeds can be full of cute kids (she and Legend absolutely have adorable kids, no question) for the foreseeable future. Plenty of celebs have lots of kids but don't splash them all over their social media constantly or use them in promoting their projects.

It all feels exploitative to me. I know people will say "but she lost a baby, have empathy." And I do, I have enormous empathy for what Teigan and the whole family went through with the still birth. But that doesn't mean I endorse all her choices, and honestly this one makes me uncomfortable.

At least I believe the kids will be loved and obviously they have the financial resources for four kids, so there is that.

Anyway, go ahead and tell me I'm "just jealous" or scream at me for not being thrilled for them.

There is fertility issues…she did IVF to conceive all her babies.

There's a big difference between someone hiring a surrogate to have their only children, and someone who has conceived and given birth to three healthy kids hiring a surrogate to have their fourth.

I get that some people want big families and that's fine. But there's a marked difference between having fewer kids than you wanted (I had fewer kids than I wanted, ftr) and wanting kids but not having them at all.

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Anonymous wrote:This made my jaw drop a bit but I'm very happy for them. At least from my viewpoint, they appear to be a very loving family.

Who has a surrogate have a baby when they’re already pregnant with another? This feels like family manufacturing, not need.

Not your call or business though.

DP. Not our call but when you are announcing your kids online and providing a bunch of detail about how they were conceived, it becomes public business. People are going to have opinions and you can't control the fact that people will talk about it.

I would never comment negatively on someone's birth announcement, but I have no problem judging/discussing here. The use of surrogacy like this is not something universally accepted and people are going to talk.