'I felt like a loser.'
Gabrielle Union knows how surrogacy might appear to those who haven't experienced it – and how it was not at all the way she felt when using a surrogate to birth her daughter, now two-year-old Kaavia.magazine about someone who's had a baby via gestational carrier like we did, it was basically like, 'I couldn't, we found an angel on earth, and now our angelthat aired Wednesday."My story doesn't match that . . . and there is nothing in between.
In fact, unlike the glowing celebrity surrogacy stories she'd read about, she had"complicated, messy, not-soundbite-worthy feelings" about entering into motherhood this way."When it's not 'Oh it was great, and I'm just glad someone was there to help me bring my angel into the world,' I felt like a loser," she admitted."I felt like I'm defective.
Gabrielle continued:"I felt like a failure. I felt like my body had failed me, I had failed me, and I had failed Dwyane [Wade] and he deserved something other than me."We Can't Get Enough of Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's Family — See Their Best Photos "When you don't physically birth your child and have those nine months to bond with your baby, it's like me and Dwyane are in the same boat with Kaav," she said."We both had to work to create a bond because she was created outside of both of us. And I was so worried that maybe she's not going to love me as much because I didn't birth her. Maybe she's not going to respect me as much because I didn't birth her.
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