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A 68-year-old Spanish TV personality Ana Obregón reveals her newly adopted daughter, who is actually her granddaughter, was produced using her dead son’s stored sperm.
Last week, Spanish actress Ana Obregón was condemned by her compatriots for having a baby via a surrogate in the U.S. on the grounds that the practice is outlawed in Spain.
Now the 68-year-old has revealed that the baby was actually fathered by her son, Aless Lequio, who died of cancer at the age of 27 three years ago.
“This girl isn’t my daughter, she’s my granddaughter,” Obregón told ¡Hola! magazine. “This was [my son] Aless’ final wish, to bring a child of his own into the world.”
Before Aless Lequio’s death in 2020 a sample of his sperm was frozen and stored in New York. The biological mother who carried the baby is reported to be a woman of Cuban origin living in Florida.
Obregón said she spoke with her son about his desire to have a child in the week before his untimely death, with a sample of his sperm being frozen in New York.
Spanish Education Minister Pilar Alegría criticized Obregón’s actions last week before the revelation, arguing that what she’d done was “not surrogacy” but “renting a womb.”
Surrogacy is when a woman agrees to carry and give birth to a baby on behalf of someone else. It is often, but not always, done in exchange for money.
– Input from BBC was used in this article.
