Stars who have chosen surrogacy, from Nicole Kidman to Lucy Liu, are increasingly vocal about telling the world about their choice.
Click through to see celebrities who have chosen to expand their families via gestational carrier – and what they had to say about the experience.
Fast & Furious actress Jordanna Brewster has always been forthright about how she and her producer husband Andrew Form started their family. "I didn't really have a choice about being open since it was obvious I wasn't pregnant," she told Yahoo Parenting. "For me it wasn't a choice; I needed to use a surrogate. But I didn't feel judged. It's more like I felt awkward.”
"Sometimes I feel a little left out when other mums talk about what their birth experience was like, and I fell the loss of not having carried or having been able to carry.
"I many ways I feel lucky I was able to be so open," she added. "There are so many women who are young and have to go through IVF and feel like they can't talk about it, and that's really unfortunate."
The couple have had two sons via gestational surrogate – Julian, who was born on 10 September 2013, and Rowan, who arrived on June 9, 2016.
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"Our family is truly blessed and just so thankful to have been given the gift of baby Faith Margaret," power couple Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban said in a statement in 2011. "No words can adequately convey the incredible gratitude that we feel for everyone who was so supportive throughout this process, in particular our gestational carrier."
This announcement came as a surprise to most. She told E! that "we just decided this was our thing together. It kind of just perpetuated itself. [And] it protects her and it protects everyone in the situation."
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