Pregnant Without a Bump
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are now expecting twins via a surrogate. They aren't the first celebrities to put their eggs in someone else's basket. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
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The Frasier star and his wife, a former Playboy model named Camille, have a daughter, Mason Olivia, and son, Jude Gordon, born via a surrogate mother. They still stay in touch with the surrogate and Grammer said, "We met, she was screened, we all had therapy... as the pregnancy progressed." If she became pregnant, Camille's health could have been in danger because she has a form of irritable bowel syndrome. TMI?
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The classic soap-opera star was the recipient of a joyous People magazine cover when she had two children through a surrogate after 20 years of trying to become a mother. The Days of Our Lives star underwent multiple surgeries, including six painful in vitro procedures, until meeting a surrogate who gave birth to her two sons, David and Tully.
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Winokur, of Hairspray and Dancing with the Stars fame, beat cervical cancer seven years ago, and had to enlist a surrogate to have a child. When Zev Isaac Miller arrived last year, the dynamite dancer was thrilled: "This baby is going to change my life," she said.
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At 52 years old, model Cheryl Tiegs and her husband were disappointed after several unsuccessful efforts to conceive, including a failed attempt at in vitro fertilization. They eventually found a 32-year-old woman who said she loved being pregnant, but didn't want more children. After the insemination occurred, Tiegs took pictures of her babies in the petri dish. "She's an angel in our lives, that's for sure," she said of their surrogate. "But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do."
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The Big Easy actor and his wife, Kimberly, weren't satisfied with one set of twins. After multiple miscarriages, they turned to a surrogate and soon had two more kids: Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, who were born on November 12, 2007.
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The actor ups the testosterone as one half of the police duo fronting Law & Order: SVU, and in 2004 Meloni and his wife, production designer Doris Williams, conceived a son, Dante Arnadeo, with a surrogate mother. Their daughter, Sophia Eva Pietra, was also born via a surrogate in 2001.
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The 54-year-old star of the series Sons of Anarchy welcomed her daughter, Esme, via a surrogate in 2007. "I was too old to carry a baby if you want the truth," she said. "We were exploring adoption or surrogacy, and we kind of left it up to whatever happened quicker--and the surrogacy process was a lot easier than we thought."
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Jimmy Fallon's first late-night guest has one son with his current wife, Grace Hightower, and another with his first wife Diahnne Abbott, whose daughter he also adopted. His twin sons with former model Toukie Smith were conceived by in vitro fertilization via surrogate--and here's an interesting twist-- after their long-term relationship ended. The two have shared parenting responsibilities.
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The hip-shaker had to stop livin' the crazy life after welcoming twin boys, Matteo and Valentino, via surrogate in August 2008. "Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children," his rep said after the birth.
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The Thriller singer's third child, Prince Michael Jackson II--whose nickname, if you'll remember, is "Blanket"--was born in 2002 via an unidentified surrogate and using his own sperm cells. An ugly custody battle ensued when a rather fortuitously named woman, Billie Jean Jackson, claimed she was Michael's secret wife and the mother of Prince Michael II, and demanded $1 billion in child-support payments.
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