Paris Hilton is celebrating New Year’s Eve 2022 the way the hotel heiress is known: in the perfect party outfit. Three weeks later she is suddenly a mom. (No) a miracle – that’s completely normal in Hollywood.
Having your own child born by a surrogate mother is illegal in Germany. In the US, this practice is legal and particularly appreciated by celebrity (and very wealthy) parents. However, the motivation for this is different.
Paris Hilton already revealed in January 2021: “We are in the process of doing IVF.” In in vitro fertilization, the woman’s egg cells are removed and artificially fertilized with sperm in a test tube. However, it is not known why Hilton ultimately did not want or could not become pregnant herself.
January 25, 2023 Paris announces the birth of her son with this photo. “You are already loved beyond measure,” she writes
How top model Naomi Campbell became the mother of a daughter in 2021 at 50, she only revealed months later: “She is not adopted, she is my biological child.” However, Campbell was never spotted with a baby bump.
But does it actually have a negative effect on the mother-child relationship if you “outsource” childbirth?
Fashion icon Naomi Campbell (52) has not yet revealed the name of her daughter (1) or who the father is
No – at least when it comes to the bond between mother and child, psychologist Anke Precht (53) explains in BILD am SONNTAG: “This bond is detached from the fact of giving birth. It arises from the importance of the newborn in life and the daily development of the new family member.”
Before Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick had twins in 2010, their marriage was rumored to be on the verge of collapse. Desire to have children against the crisis? In any case, numerous attempts at artificial insemination were unsuccessful.
Sarah Jessica Parker
The solution for the couple: a surrogate mother. A decision with consequences: Michelle R.’s identity became known during pregnancy, unknown persons broke into her house and threatened her family.
Sarah Jessica Parker at the time: “I’m concerned about the safety and well-being of the surrogate mother and the safe birth of our children.” Michelle R. received $23,000.
2010: Parker with husband Matthew Broderick (then 48), surrogate twins Tabitha and Marion and eldest son James (then 8)
Sarah Jessica Parker (57, “Sex and the City”) hired surrogate mother Michelle (small photo), then 26, divorced, already the mother of a son, for her desire to have children
These stars also had their children through surrogate mothers
Nicole Kidman has four children but has only been pregnant once – with Sunday (14). Two children are adopted – Isabella (30) and Connor (28), the youngest, Faith, was born in 2010 via surrogate mother
Nicole Kidman with her daughter Faith
Kim Kardashian already had two self-born children, North, 9, and Saint, 7, before hiring a surrogate for Chicago, 5, and Pslam, 3
Kim with Chicago (right) and Psalm
Lucy Liu (54) became a mother for the first time at the age of 46
At 48, Cameron Diaz (50) gave birth to a daughter carried by a surrogate mother
Khloé Kardashian (38) gave birth to her first daughter herself. However, since the risk of a miscarriage was too high, her son was born by surrogate last year. The father of the two children is her ex Tristan Thompson (31)
This article comes from BILD am SONNTAG. The ePaper of the entire issue is available here.
Surrogacy: Doctors in Germany face 3 years in prison
The issue of surrogate mothers is not just an emotional one. It always has legal aspects. dr Marko Oldenburger (55), specialist lawyer for family law at the Hamburg law firm Rose & Partner, answers the central questions for BILD am SONNTAG.
► Is surrogacy legal in this country?
The Embryo Protection Act prohibits doctors from artificially inseminating surrogate mothers and from transferring a human embryo. Doctors face imprisonment of up to three years for violations, as well as professional measures that can lead to the withdrawal of their license to practice medicine.
However, private individuals can arrange that a woman could carry a child for another couple by means of a sperm donation (without the involvement of a doctor) and the intended parents could become legal parents through recognition and adoption.
► How can a surrogacy successfully come about legally via a foreign country?
In the USA, Mexico, Canada, Ukraine and Greece, for example, contracts are concluded which, in addition to medical services, regulate the rights and obligations of intended parents and surrogate mothers.
The child that is born is then legally regarded as the child of the intended parents, who are also on the foreign birth certificate. After all, this parenthood has yet to be legalized in Germany.
► How does the child get to Germany?
After paternity has been recognized, which the surrogate mother must agree to, a child passport can be issued by the German mission abroad. You can leave and enter the country using a foreign child passport.
►How is one legally recognized as a parent in Germany? So far there have been three ways:
1. Recognition of a foreign court decision on parenthood by the family court.
2. Subsequent certification of the foreign birth on the basis of a foreign court decision by the registry office.
3. Adoption. However, the latter has become more lengthy and complicated due to legal changes in the “Adoption Effects Act” in 2021.
