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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [b]I understand surrogacy better in situations of infertility[/b] 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.[/quote]

There is fertility issues…she did IVF to conceive all her babies.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

So I’m your world surrogacy should only be for people who have no kids and then they should only have that 1 kid? This is ridiculous.[/quote]

So in your world, anytime a rich person with any number of children wants to just rent a woman's uterus for 9+ months, they should be able to do so? We should just have an underclass of working and middle class women who save wealthy women the trouble of pregnancy and birth? Mmmkay.

Something fascinating to me about this thread is that we know that Teigan's surrogate had a miscarriage before conceiving this pregnancy that she was able to bring to term. Yet not one person has mentioned that miscarriage. Of course not -- just part of the job, right? If you or I miscarried, we'd deserve sympathy and support, [b]but if a surrogate miscarries, well, back to the coal mines she goes.[/b]

What is ridiculous again? Explain it.[/quote]

Yes, very odd. She even had a surgery after that before the next pregnancy. Even though Teigen was 4 months along at that point they still went ahead with the surrogate at that point. I guess it was insurance in case Teigen lost her own pregnancy.[/quote]

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