Cameron Diaz “has third child” aged 53

And most likely removed because the birth mother cannot care for it. That can be for many reasons such as addiction, dangerous partner , inability to care safely etc etc.
Children in the UK are not removed lightly.
Adoption is about keeping an existing child safe and surrogacy is about creating a child for an adults benefit and causing harm to.them in the process.
World's apart

And most likely removed because the birth mother cannot care for it. That can be for many reasons such as addiction, dangerous partner , inability to care safely etc etc.
Children in the UK are not removed lightly.
Adoption is about keeping an existing child safe and surrogacy is about creating a child for an adults benefit and causing harm to.them in the process.
World's apart

They are worlds apart as surrogacy you plan to cause that trauma for a child just to become a parent. Not thinking of the resultant child at all

With adoption the child is already in existence and so what is in the best interests of that child has to be thought about.

I can’t understand why people can’t see the difference

I wouldn't bother. I and others have already tried to explain to that poster how ridiculously inaccurate their understand of adoption is and they, perhaps unsurprising, don't acknowledge or interact with those posts.

It would be interesting to know the age of the oldest woman to conceive naturally in the UK

According to Google:

The oldest recorded British woman to conceive and give birth naturally is Dawn Brooke, who had a baby boy at the age of 59 on August 20, 1997. She conceived the child accidentally after unexpectedly ovulating past her last normal period.

edited to say: I am 58 and I am 100% certain this will not be happening to me!!

Just been on the news that Kena Dunham has had a child via surrogacy.

So I guess that means something important about millennial / 3rd wave feminism since it involves her but I'm not sure what

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/16/lena-dunham-baby-girl

I can’t read that as not subscriber

Yeah I saw that too. I'm also following the story of the surrogate who refused to abort when heart issues were discovered; it's just something that doesn't sit right with me (the buying of a baby to have it immediately removed from its birth mother). In certain circumstances, surrogacy perhaps for a loved relative with full care/continued bonding etc with the baby, but not commercial surrogacy whatsoever. Taking babies away from the mother who grew them isn't even something we would do to our pet animals.

I'm surprised Lena has done this - being a feminist I mean.

Lena Dunham is a huge disappointment with this. I have read her book Famesick and understand her issues in this area. In fact she had IVF by herself before her hysterectomy. She says that a baby is all that she wanted. However I would hope that she could see the impact on other women in regards to this. She has written an awful piece in Vogue saying that she loved building a wardrobe for the baby!

Adoption is not an easy route but I do think of Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall from Colin from Accounts who have adopted 2 children. They actually stand out in modern celebrity for adoption not surrogacy.

https://www.vogue.com/article/lena-dunham-shopping-for-baby-october-2026

I expect Selena Gomez to buy a baby in the next couple of years.

"delivered via surrogate" is a repulsive and mechanical use of words

a horrible depersonalising expression

I'm surprised Lena has done this - being a feminist I mean.

I don't know it you were being tongue in cheek, but I'm not surprised in the slightest. Lena's feminism is inclusive.

And by that I mean it 'includes' whatever Lena fancies, such as males and commodifying female bodies to make bespoke babies for rich people. A pick and mix of values.

Uh, typo in my post.

Yes. She'd actually written about "Rejecting the fertility industrial complex" before.

Genuinely is more about the shopping opportunities she now has.

Baby arrived 13 days overdue. Cripes that's more than me at 5

That article is horrific. It's superficially honouring the surrogate, but is so incredibly dismissive of the reality

After the transfer, which was as brief as a child’s strep test and infinitely less dramatic, the doctor told us he would do a pregnancy test in 10 days.

But she was preparing herself, inside our surrogate’s strong and healthy body

Scans, assurances about a normal heartbeat and some babies just coming in their own time.

I was so focused on our surrogate—in awe at her concentration, her period of quiet followed by what sounded like a roar—I forgot to look down until I heard our baby’s cry.

Not one thought there about the actual experience of the women who went through significant medical treatment, gestated a baby (they do not, in fact, just grow themselves in a passive vessel) and birthed it - not a mention of how being 13 days overdue might have been for her, birth as sanitised as the transfer.

I am actually really surprised that an American doctor was in favour of letting an IVF pregnancy with no genetic link to the pregnant woman go so overdue, given the clear evidence that such pregnancies are higher-risk and particularly so for placental issues. I really, really hope that that was a decision made between medical professionals and the surrogate not by Lena and her partner to fit any idea they had about how the baby should be born.

Not one thought there about the actual experience of the women who went through significant medical treatment, gestated a baby (they do not, in fact, just grow themselves in a passive vessel).

i should get back to it, but Jenny Kleemans book Sex Robots and Vegan meat covers the evangelical/ anti abortion research that is going into creating artificial wombs that really would "dispense" with any notion of the actual grunt work the mother does.

Lady Gaga has appeared with a baby this week but no one appears to have seen her pregnant. Millie Bobbie-Brown says she's adopted baby number 2, I'm not convinced it's technically an adoption.

Yes I heard about Gaga. She'd been out of the public eye for a while so it's assumed she'd actually had a pregnancy

I guess if you have nannies and night nurses, cooks and house keepers and cleaners, all you have to do is have cuddles and choose nice clothes. While getting a full nights sleep with no birth to recover from.

What annoys me is when people think the person who contributed the genetic material is the “biological mother”. In my book the biological mother is the woman who carries and gives birth to the baby. The baby doesn’t know where its genes come from but it does know the voice and heartbeat of the woman who carried them.

Eh?

So what’s the alternative? The man getting pregnant?

Looks like Gaga also used a surrogate

You're right @elgreco so she did. Born early June so been secluded the last 3 months

https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/17/lady-gaga-and-michael-polansky-used-surrogate-to-have-child/