Jenny, 28, has had six babies – two of them for Natalie. She doesn’t get paid, because commercial surrogacy is illegal in the UK. So what motivates British surrogates – and what happens when an agreement goes wrong?
At 15, Natalie Smith discovered that she had no womb: “There you are, growing into a woman, and suddenly you find out that you can’t have children. You’ve never really thought about having children at that point, but what you realise is that it has always been there, that assumption that you will.”
The condition was a result of a birth disorder called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), and the diagnosis was devastating: “It changed everything. It shifted my values, it exploded my friendships.”
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