Family PLANNING

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO BECOME A PARENT. THESE CELEBS USED SURROGATES TO CARRY THEIR CHILDREN. HERE'S HOW IT HAPPENED.

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LILY COLLINS

"Words will never express our endless gratitude for our incredible surrogate and everyone who helped us along the way," the Emily in Paris star gushed in the January 2025 announcement of the birth of her first child, daughter Tove, with husband Charlie McDowell. While the pair soon faced online backlash for "outsourcing" pregnancy, Lily, 36, did not comment, though in her 2017 memoir, Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me, she revealed she'd had an eating disorder that was so severe it disrupted her menstrual cycle, writing, "I was terrified I had ruined my chances of having kids."

KANDI BURRUSS