About 8 years ago a friend hired a surrogate and got twins. At that point, I was fine with surrogacy. After they were born she sent our friend group a picture of her doing skin to skin in the hospital bed. I remember having a visceral reaction to it. It was bizarre. You didn’t birth these babies why are you posing as if you had? Also why are you doing this in a hospital bed? I think that whole thing planted the seed for me that surrogacy was a really unnatural thing to do.

Now that I’ve birthed 2 kids I find it horrifying and dystopian to rip a child from the only mom they’ve known and pose with them like that.

I can't stand it. You know there's a woman somewhere that needs the hospital bed. Doing this is so gauche.

Just post a picture saying "Look what we bought" and stop pretending you had anything to do with it other than writing a check. You probably spent the pregnancy bullying the mother demanding to know what she ate or what her step count was that day too.

I remember seeing Pete Buttigeg in a hospital bed with a baby and all I could think was how off camera, a woman with a very sore undercarriage was sitting uncomfortably in a chair waiting for him to get up.

the image of Kim Kardashian (or one of them, I don't keep track) posing in a hospital bed after the newborn was swept away from its birth mother was the image that made my teen daughter a true rad feminist. A former fan of the Kardashians (ahh...teenagers) she was appalled by that scene and it truly turned her off both the show and the idea of surrogacy.

I hate this. A celebrity “using a surrogate” to produce a child needs to become a much more shameful thing, and certainly not something to publicize and glamorize with fucking photo ops.

Trans larp breasfeeding babies, why shouldn't female celebrities larp giving birth? It's all Hollywood, make-believe, anyway. Nothing is real. It's all entertainment, even politics. It's all a game. A fun game!

Well let's wait another year with Trump in office, and see how make-believe things are, versus real.

When Emily in Paris star Lily Collins and husband Charlie McDowell revealed this week that they'd welcomed a daughter via surrogacy, the couple were hit with 'unkind' comments from some on social media.

Film director McDowell penned an emotional Instagram post saying they'd been the victim of a 'hateful' response after sharing news of baby Tove's arrival - and they are not the first celebrity parents to come under scrutiny for using a surrogate.

In his post, McDowell made the pointed remark that it's 'OK to not be an expert on surrogacy', and indeed the machinations of the process can attract negative comments about 'human trafficking' and 'rich people renting women's bodies'.

Bro, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID!!! You rented a woman's body so you could traffick a baby into your home!

It is so gross and dystopian. Everyone knows they used a surrogate. So why the hospital LARP?