Surrogacy doesn’t make Lucia ‘the smaller of my daughter’

Hilaria Baldwin gave birth to six of her seven children – but that doesn’t mean her surrogate daughter Lucia is “less” of her.

During Sunday episode of her podcast “Witches Anonymous”.a yoga instructor spoke about the backlash she faced using a surrogate to welcome Lucia – who was born in February 2021 – after “two public miscarriages” in 2019.

After explaining that “there are many different ways to become a parent”, she said: “I don’t see the difference between my daughter, who was born through surrogacy, and the six other children I’ve been carrying.”

“There’s no difference,” insisted the 38-year-old. “And people assume I’m less a mom and she’s less my daughter. … She is just as attached to me as everyone else.”

Hilaria – who welcomed her seventh child into the world with her husband Alec Baldwin (64) of women is a breeder. And if you can’t farm the traditional way, or don’t want to farm the traditional way, people think they have the right to talk about it.”

The podcaster further claimed that she was “embarrassed” for choosing the “surrogacy path” as many made her feel like an “outcast” who had been successful many times.

“They don’t know my story because I haven’t shared it with people yet,” Hilaria explained. “One of the reasons I haven’t shared it with people is because they haven’t been very nice about it. It made me so sad – a sense of judgment. And on such innocence.

After she and Alec reviewed “several articles that were written about” her and Lucia when she was born, Hilaria stated that many reporters “took the time to write about her value – not just as a family member, but also her validity in the conditions of existence.

“They question whether I should have done it, and therefore they question whether it should exist,” Hilaria argued.

As for her surrogate’s identity, the devoted mum said she was “not going to give a name [her] surrogate because she doesn’t want it.”

However, she claimed that they have an “amazing” relationship and “talk almost every day”.

“We are so close and have gone through such amazing transformations together,” she said.

The author of Living Clearly Method also revealed that the “surrogate questioning” made her “want to go through the process.”