Ana Obregón said it was her late son's final wish to bring a child into the world.
The Spanish actor revealed in an interview withthat the baby she recently welcomed with the help of a surrogate is not her child, but the daughter of her late son, Aless Lequio, who died at the age of 27 from cancer in May 2020.
The actor at the "Cancer Ball" charity dinner presented by Elle magazine at the Royal Theatre on Oct. 20, 2022 in Madrid, Spain.She said that the process of conceiving her son’s baby “was made the day my child went to heaven.” Obregón chose to preserve her son's samples in the United States and get a U.S.-based surrogate as surrogacy is forbidden by law in Spain,“The only thing that has allowed me to continue living every day, every second, is to fulfill the mission of bringing Aless’ daughter into the world,” she said, disregarding the criticism that she is facing in her native country.
The new grandmother shared that she found out in August that the baby was conceived and in December that it was a girl.
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