Surrogacy.

I think however someone decides to have a child is none of my business (unless they stole a child, of course).

I’m not sure I agree with surrogacy but I wouldn’t hate on someone online. Any online hate is cowardly!

I think everyone should be free to have their child however they wish. Tbh if I could afford it I would probably prefer to have my next child via surogacy just because the first pregnancy really messed up with my fitness achievements. Lilly Collins is an actress so for her it's even more important how she looks so I understand

I think people need to mind their own business. You don’t have to agree with shit. It’s not your life, body or business 🤷🏻‍♀️

Surrogacy can be really unethical so I don’t agree with it

Although I think surrogacy is great for those that can’t have children. You don’t hear about when it goes wrong ie if there is something wrong with the baby like Down’s syndrome or if it’s the wrong gender which is what I read recently. I have mixed views in general as it does sometimes feel like a baby on demand although this particular case I didn’t really take much notice.

As someone whose suffering from body dysmorphia (again) due to pregnancy and post partum, if i could've afforded surrogacy for my own mental health, I would do it. I love my baby, I'm so glad he's here, but I literally never want to be pregnant ever again.

As someone who loves having kids and raising them, but hates the pregnancy part, I understand why people do surragacy and can’t hate them for it.

I think surrogacy is a beautiful thing to do for someone, like you have to be an amazing person to do that for someone else. As for this situation in particular she’s actually doing the right thing she doesn’t want to risk any health issues for her baby because of what she’s been through. What’s so wrong with that?

It’s been trending for a while. Paris Hilton, Kim & Khloe Kardashian, Cameron Diaz also used surrogates. I think the surrogacy market is super shady. I watched an episode of “trafficked” w/ Mariana van Zeller on Natgeo a few months ago-surrogates in poor countries like Kenya get robbed at the end of their pregnancies and find themselves without any of the promised cash. It’s pretty gruesome. Plenty of beautiful actresses and models like Margot Robbie, Alexandra Daddario, Lais Ribiero, and Hailey Bieber chose to carry. I find Lily Collins to be one of the more obnoxious nepos, this latest cry for attention just confirms it😬😅.

So ,in the UK unlike in the US, it is illegal to pay for a surrogate. You can’t advertise for one and if you want to be one, you can’t promote that fact. It is an ultraistic act. The laws around it here are pretty stringent. A very dear friend, after 8 years of trying to get pregnant, went down he surrogacy journey. She was actually on Women’s Hour talking about it. They have a beautiful little boy and are very close to the surrogate and her family, a doctor who already has three children and has already been a surrogate for another couple. In the US and other places in the world you can pay someone to carry your child. It’s a commercial transaction and, although I understand why this is hope for lots of couples, you are making a baby a commodity and there is something very uncomfortable for me about that.

You’re essentially buying another women’s body for a service. It’s rarely a fair exchange and the surrogates are selling their body often due to a lack of other options so that a wealthy person can have a child without the inconvenience of pregnancy or birth. Not to mention the market for it, as was mentioned in another comment, is so shady. In Ukraine there were literally “farms” of pregnant women selling their babies to richer European families it’s fucked

@Carmen so true, the idea of buying a baby/woman’s body sounds inherently creepy to me. Also there is known trauma of separating a baby from the woman who birthed them https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/how-mother-child-separation-causes-neurobiological-vulnerability-into-adulthood.html

I’m wondering if she is saying that instead of maybe labeling the deeper problem and more personal in some ways. Which could just be fertility problems.

@Carmen Just found out about ‘human egg farming’ that happened in Georgia and I am horrified!