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News: 'Renting our wombs is the family business' for gay Europeans
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'Renting our wombs is the family business' for gay Europeans
EXCLUSIVE - 'Renting our wombs is the family business': Four sisters from the SAME family make £10,000 a year having babies for gay European couples in Mexico’s secret surrogacy trade
- The Hernandez sisters live in the impoverished Tabasco state, where the surrogacy industry is worth £90m a year
- The sisters all hire out their wombs - earning in just nine months what their brother would take 20 years to make
- Unbelievably, after carrying the child to term, they then breastfeed for 10 days - further sealing the bond with baby
- But sisters, all single mothers, say the pain is worth every penny in a country where their only other options would be prostitution or waitressing for pennies just so they could feed and clothes their biological children
Family business: The Hernandez sisters (from left to right Milagros, 30, Martha, 30, Paulina, 22, and Maria, 27, are all pregnant with surrogate babies - all of whom will grow up on the other side of the world from Mexico, where their birth mothers live with their families
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The four sisters stand gossiping underneath the washing line, the growing baby bumps visible under tightly-fitting tops.
But the unemployed Hernandez sisters are not looking forward to the birth of much-wanted babies. Instead, they are 'wombs-for-hire' - willing to put their bodies through agony in order to earn thousands from desperate Europeans, prepared to pay more than these single mothers could earn in 20 years for their chance to have their own biological child.
This is a family business - one which is not discussed outside the walls of the home, just one cog in Mexico's secretive, and sometimes corrupt, surrogacy industry.
‘Our neighbours accuse us of running an infant trafficking ring,' shrugs Martha, who is four months pregnant with a baby being 'bought' by a gay Frenchman.
‘But we’re all unemployed single mothers taking care of our own futures.'
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Heartbreak: But handing the babies, who are not genetically related to them, over to their parents is a wrench - not least because they breastfeed for the first 10 days. Here, Martha shows of a picture of the first baby she carried, Sara, who now lives in Europe
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It was oldest sister Milagros who first stumbled across the 'rent-a-womb' business in 2013, ‘through word of mouth, which is how everything gets done here in Tabasco’, the impoverished state where they live - and where the trade is booming.
If that means renting out their wombs or working other jobs to bring in money to support the family, so be it, says Milagros.
Already a mother of three, all by different fathers, she laughs as she tells MailOnline that the ‘fun of sex is the only thing that’s missing from the surrogacy experience’.
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Matriarch: Grandmother Lourdes, 81, in polkadots, admits she encourages her granddaughters to become surrogates to make money
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However, it was not until she brought back the £11,000 she earned from her first successful surrogacy that Martha, the next eldest sister, decided to follow in her footsteps. Soon, Maria, 27 and a mother-of-three, and Paulina, the youngest at 22, realised they too could earn a living this way.
After all, the average £10,000 pay-off is following a successful delivery, as well as having all living expenses covered by the client throughout the nine-month pregnancy. The women's brother, who works for minimum wage in the state capital, would take nearly 10 years to equal the amount.
‘As a young single mother from a poor background in Villahermosa, your job options are either waitress or prostitute,' said Milagros. ‘Surrogacy was an easy way to ensure a future for my own children.'
The family matriarch Lourdes - who stands watching her granddaughters from the door, looking far younger than her 81 years - nods in agreement.
‘I’d rent out my own womb if I could,' she said, readily admitting to encouraging her granddaughters to rack up as many pregnancies as possible before they hit the candidacy cut-off age at 35.
‘A woman can earn a fortune for doing something which comes naturally.'
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Money: After her sisters saw that she earned £11,000 following the second, successful surrogacy they decided to follow in her footsteps. ‘As a young single mother from a poor background in Villahermosa, your job options are either waitress or prostitute,' she told MailOnline. Compared to that, surrogacy is a good option
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz473GQdLfv
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LET ME RENT YOUR WOMBS, GIRLS
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Nothing against this but it saddens me when I think there are so many children waiting to be adopted.
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‘As a young single mother from a poor background in Villahermosa, your job options are either waitress or prostitute,' she told MailOnline.
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that's terrible.
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I highkey need their contact details
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Yes queens! Serving Mexico's Next Top Surrogate
I can see think becoming a serious business in the next decade or so.
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And the Europeans dare shade the Queen of the Americas, when she is birthing their babies.
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Queens
The gays creating jobs
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Honestly it's really sad that this is their only way to earn money, but good for them for taking initiative.
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i hope the parents retain some contact with the surrogate mothers, even if just sending pictures.
its such an emotionally taxing thing to do, but if it means they along with their children are better off then I'm glad
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This kind of depresses me tbh. Surrogacy and bringing children into the world is a beautiful thing, but these are extremely poor women who are just desperate to make enough money to put food on the table. I wouldn't feel right having one of them carry a baby for me, but if they want to then go ahead I guess
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Honestly, this kind of depresses me too. I'm gay and it would be nice to have a kid that is related to you but I sometimes think, why would you still want to procreate if you are gay? What about overpopulation? Or the kids that need home? I know this might be a dumb question but can someone enlighten me? Why do gays still have the desire to have biological kids if they don't have the desire for the opposite sex?
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The western world is not overpopulated. Germany has the lowest birth rate in the entire world and too many old people. Germany needs more children.
Idk how I feel about this but if they don't have a problem with it why not? I want to adopt a child because there are many children who live in poverty and have no parents.
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Get that gay money Queens!
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What kinda slay
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Originally posted by katysus
Honestly, this kind of depresses me too. I'm gay and it would be nice to have a kid that is related to you but I sometimes think, why would you still want to procreate if you are gay? What about overpopulation? Or the kids that need home? I know this might be a dumb question but can someone enlighten me? Why do gays still have the desire to have biological kids if they don't have the desire for the opposite sex?
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Wanting to be a parent has nothing to do with your sexuality.
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Sad that this is their only option for making money, but at least it's a legit hustle that brings joy to people.
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