Ana Obregón—a 68-year-old Spanish actress and socialite—has caused controversy after revealing that her newborn baby, born through surrogacy, is the father of the child. her late son.
Having a child was her son’s ‘last will’
In a recent sit down with Hello! magazine, Obregón revealed that the child – born in Miami less than three weeks ago – is technically her granddaughter.
Specifically, the baby is fathered by the son of the actress, Alessandro “Aless” Lequio Jr., who passed away from cancer in 2020 at the age of 27.
“The first thing you need to know is that this girl is not my daughter, but my niece. She is Aless’s daughter, and when she grows up, I will tell her that her father is a hero, so that she knows who she is and how proud she must be of him.”
The actress noted that her son said it was his “last will” to give life to the world, so they proceeded to preserve some sperm samples before he started. Valence.
Although she initially didn’t reveal this detail, she has now openly embraced it. In fact, below an Instagram post of her and the baby on the cover of Hello!she wrote a sweet message to Aless.
“I swore that I would save you from cancer, and I failed. I promised you I would bring your daughter into the world, and now she is in my arms.”
She added: “You are the love of my life in heaven, and your daughter is the love of my life on earth.”
Spain has some unfavorable attitudes towards surrogacy
Before this revelation, some controversy broke out in the star’s homeland, as surrogacy is illegal in Spain. In reality, Guard reports that some high-ranking politicians have even referred to surrogacy as a “womb rental.”
However, Obregón denied the issue was “ridiculous” and noted that Spain was stuck “in the last century”.
She also stated that the baby was born in the US and is her legal daughter so she won’t have any problems returning home.
“Everything is legal. The girl was born in the US, so she will have an American passport and dual citizenship. Legally, she’s my daughter, and that’s how she appears in the passport. I will register her at the Spanish Consulate, and then I can take her home.”
In addition to the backlash surrounding surrogacy in general, Obregón also faced criticism for the way she performed the procedure.
Based on BBC newsGonzalo Velasco—a social philosophy commentator—tells Cadena SER radio that the situation is an example of a mother “going too far.”
“Ana Obregón took it upon herself to explain her dead son’s wishes and that went too far. No child is the property of its parents, and neither is a dead child. No mother or father has the right to interpret the wishes of their child.”
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