Sofia Vergara is in the early stages of having a surrogate baby, the New York Post reports. If true, Sofia Vergara will be joining a handful of celebrities who, too, opted for a surrogate.?
Sofia Vergara is planning for a surrogate baby, says the New York Post. Here, Vergara poses with her award for outstanding performance in an ensemble comedy performance from the Screen Actors Guild in January.
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EnlargeSofia Vergara, "Gloria" on ABC's popular "Modern Family," is said to be planning for a newborn through surrogacy, sources close to the actress told the New York Post.
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The baby will be biologically Vergara and fiance Nick Loeb's, and the child's host is said to be a close girlfriend of Vergara's. ?A procedure has taken place, and Sofia and Nick will find out in a few weeks if it was successful, if the surrogate is pregnant, and if they will become parents," a source close to Vergara told the Post.
It was not clear if she chose surrogacy because her career at the moment is skyrocketing: a new season of Modern Family is filming, she has a K-Mart fashion line, and is in talks with a number of movie producers for upcoming roles,?the Post said.
Vergara is one of a number of celebrities who have chosen to conceive a child through surrogacy, a process still controversial in the US, in which?a?woman carries a child for another couple.?
As Stephanie Hanes wrote for The Christian Science Monitor back in April: "Over the past couple of years,?Nicole Kidman?and husband?Keith Urban?had a baby daughter via surrogate (in January);?Sarah Jessica Parker?and Matthew Broderick?had twins (June 2009); and?Elton John?and partner?David Furnish?had a baby boy (Christmas Day).
The statistics for gestational surrogacy in the US show a wider increase, as well. The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and the?Centers for Disease Control?report the number of infants born to gestational surrogates increased to 1,400 in 2008 from 738 in 2004.? (Some groups involved in surrogacy ? both pro and con ? say they believe these numbers are low.)
Gestational surrogacy makes up a small percentage of the babies born from other types of intense fertility treatment. According to the CDC, which reviewed data from 441 fertility clinics nationwide, 60,190 infants were born after Assisted Reproductive Technology, the term that describes all treatments that involve handling women?s eggs or embryos, including in vitro fertilization. But it has received some of the most intense criticism.
Some critics have speculated that surrogacy would become the new vanity C-section for the Hollywood set, with women who don?t want to go through the 'inconvenience' of pregnancy and childbirth simply outsourcing those duties to another, usually lower income, woman. Others worry about the ethical implications for the surrogate; still others wonder about the religious implications of the scientific management of childbirth."
Neither the New York Post or Vergara have indicated why Vergera may be choosing surrogacy. She gave birth to her first and only child, a boy. Vergara has always wanted a brother or sister for her 21-year-old son, the Post said, and Loeb has been pushing for a child.?
Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/mjAjCFMN9Q0/Vergara-surrogate-baby-Yes-says-N.Y.-Post
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