Ricky Martin adopts twin boys!
Pop star Ricky Martin has adopted twin boys, born to a surrogate mother.
Martin, 36, who is currently single, plans to take a long break from showbusiness to raise the kids. In a statement, the Livin’ La Vida Loca singer-turned-humanitarian’s spokesperson says, “The children, delivered via gestational surrogacy, are healthy and already under Ricky’s full-time care.
“Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in order to spend time with his children.”
Martin joins the ranks of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and fellow Puerto Ricans Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, who also became parents of twins this year.
WENN
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
According to Surrogacy laws – he does not have to adopt the children, they are his genetically and he can be on the birth certificate immediately.
Gestational Suirrogacy means the woman who carried the children are not related to her. there must have been another egg donor.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:21 am
This is not really adopting, this is a gay man paying a woman to carry his children. Kind of sick, if you ask me. I feel bad for the children, who will not have a mother because his father bought them, and rented out a uterus. SICK!!!!!!!!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 am
Janine, take your hate and your gay-bashing and stick it in the closet with yourself, and stay there.
I am so tired of people who think that having a “mother” will give a child a wonderful life like in a fairy tale.
Well guess what, I had the stereotypical family of a father + mother + 2 siblings and it was ANYTHING but a fairy tale, it was a horror story. I was sexually abused as a child by my “loving” MOTHER (and surprise: I’m a WOMAN) and constantly threatened with physical harm by my father. Nice family unit, wouldn’t you say?
Now, decades later, I still cannot come to terms with what happened to me (and my brother and sister are in total denial about everything and suffering greatly because of it). Thankfully, I found 2 very kind and competent therapists who are totally committed to helping me accept what happened to me, accept why I didn’t get a “normal” family, and teach me how to put it behind me: if it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t still be here.
The fact that Ricky is taking a break from his show biz career to raise his new children speaks volumes to me, my parents would never have done that, they would have sooner put a bullet in my head.
So the next time you’re going to bash anyone because they don’t fit the stereotype family mode as dictated by the pope, THINK ABOUT ALL THIS.
Ricky, I applaud you and hope that you have the most wonderful life with your children.
December 9th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I agree with what Dana said. You guys should stop bashing this guy! How do you know he is gay? Whether he is or not, it’s not any of our bussinesses. It is his.