Celebrities Growing Their Family Through Surrogacy

We start with the Sarah Jessica Parker’s surrogate story and the family’s struggle with secondary infertility.

In 2002, Parker and her actor husband Matthew Broderick had their son James. The ensuing years were difficult for Parker and Broderick to expand their family.

Despite the difficulties, the Hollywood pair really wanted to raise more children. They eventually chose surrogacy with egg donation, which resulted in beautiful twin girls (Tabitha and Marion) in 2009. While Parker was never one to hide her disappointment over not being able to carry another child through pregnancy, she and Broderick have always felt very blessed to have their surrogacy babies.

The two girls look enough like their mom to raise questions like is Sarah Jessica Parker the biological mother of her twins, which she assures is not the case.

The academy award-winning actress first adopted two children with ex-husband Tom Cruise after suffering miscarriages and ectopic pregnancy.

After marrying singer/songwriter husband Keith Urban, she used IVF to conceive her ‘miracle baby’ daughter Sunday Rose. Kidman and her husband decided another child was in the cards, but chose to use their embryos in a surrogate. In December of 2010, they proudly announced the arrival of Nicole Kidman’s daughter by surrogate Faith Margaret.

The announcement came as a surprise to Hollywood, the press, and fans since the couple kept it a secret until Faith arrived safely into the family.

Actress Ellen Pompeo and her husband Chris Ivery were blessed with the natural birth of their child Stella Luna in October 2009. Unfortunately, the pregnancy was very difficult, making further pregnancies a high-risk endeavor.

Not to be deterred, the couple decided to go the surrogacy child route not once but twice. In 2014, daughter Sienna May Ivery was welcomed by the couple into the family to be followed by Eli Christopher in late 2016.

If the Sarah Jessica Parker surrogate story rings of a more traditional celebrity surrogate story, Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish are here to remind us that male celebrities can also go the surrogacy route out of necessity. As gay men, the prospect of natural-born children was never on the table, but surrogacy was.

The two men are proudly raising sons Zachary Jackson Levon, (born in December 2010) and Elijah Joseph Daniel (born in January 2013). Their surrogate’s name has been kept secret through the years but is known to be a close family friend.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Camille Grammer is the ex-wife of actor Kelsey Grammer. After several failed attempts to conceive a child during marriage, the couple eventually decided to turn to a surrogate mother for help. They were blessed with two babies by surrogacy, daughter Mason in 2001 and son Jude in 2004.

In the press, the Camille Grammer surrogacy story focused on her vanity as the reason she went with surrogacy. Despite the rumors, there is evidence to suggest legitimate health issues were the reason for using a gestational carrier.