BABY, YOU’RE A STAR!

MARION McMULLEN looks at famous surrogate families

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Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker and her actor husband Matthew Broderick did not want their son James to be an only child so welcomed twin girls into the family in 2009. Marion and Tabitha were born by surrogacy.

Ian ‘H’ Watkins and his children

6 Livin’ La Vida Loca singer Ricky Martin has four children. Twin boys Matteo and Valentino were born by surrogacy before he met his husband Jwan Josef and the couple are now also parents to daughter Lucia, and son Renn. The Puerto Rican pop star has said: “I love big families.”

Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids film star Rebel Wilson has announced the birth of her daughter Royce

Lillian. The 42-year-old Australian actress said her baby girl was born via a “gorgeous” surrogate and told her: “Thank you for helping me start my own family, it’s an amazing gift. The BEST gift!!”

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Khloe Kardashian was already a mother to daughter True when she and former partner Tristan Thompson welcomed their second child, a boy, via surrogate in August. The 38-year-old reality TV star said her two children “challenge me as a person” and that motherhood is “an honour 2

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow said he was “delighted” last year after he and his wife Precious Lunga welcomed a child together. The 73-year-old TV journalist said the couple had a baby boy with a surrogate after “numerous medical setbacks and miscarriages”. 8 Hollywood couple Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra became first time parents to a baby daughter in January. They fondly refer to her as MM and she spent more than 100 days in intensive care after she was born via surrogate. In posts shared to Twitter and Instagram, they said: “Our next chapter begins now, and our baby is truly a bad*ss.” 3

Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish are parents of two sons – Zachary and Elijah – born to a surrogate mother. When Elton announced his retirement from touring in 2018, he said his sons were part of his reason for hanging up his microphone. 9

Former NSYNC singer Lance Bass welcomed twins with husband Michael Turchin last year. Violet Betty and Alexander James were born on October 13 via a surrogate. Lance said: “The baby dragons have arrived!! I can not express how much love I feel right now.”

Steps singer Ian ‘H’ Watkins is single dad to six-year-old twin boys Macsen and Cybi. They were born by surrogacy in 2016 and Ian says: “I’m very vocal on my Instagram story that parenting is ridiculously hard, but it’s so rewarding at the same time.”

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Queer Eye star and British fashion designer Tan France and his illustrator husband Rob became parents to Ismail France last year. Their son was born via surrogate and

Tan announced he was to become a dad on social media with a topless snap complete with an ultrasound picture superimposed over his belly.