Celebrities you didn't know used a surrogate
According to Time, surrogacy first got its start when, due to multiple sclerosis, a woman by the name of Elizabeth Stern was unable to carry a pregnancy to term. Stern, a pediatrician, along with her biochemist husband, paid a woman $10,000 to bear them a child via artificial insemination.
When surrogacy first began, artificial insemination was the preferred method, Time explained. This meant the surrogate's own egg was used and, therefore, was genetically linked to the fetus. However, technology has advanced and in vitro fertilization (IVF) was successfully introduced leading to "gestational surrogacy." This eliminated the genetic link because the surrogate carries a fetus implanted with an embryo made from both donor sperm and egg. This type of surrogacy is highly recommended by experts and the method chosen by — you guessed it — Kim Kardashian West. She may have propelled surrogacy into the mainstream, but Kardashian West was certainly not the first, nor will she be the last, to pursue this method.
Here are some other celebrities who have chosen gestational surrogacy for their own children.