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Sarah Jessica Parker says the surrogate mom carrying the actress’ twins is a strong woman who made “an incredibly generous and gracious choice.” But Sarah Jessica now worries that this strength is being put to too much of a test from the media attention following the announcement that the Sex and the City star and husband Matthew Broderick are expecting twin girls in July.
“On a daily basis, on an hourly basis, I am greatly concerned for her health and safety and the safe delivery of our children,” Sarah Jessica, 44, tells Access Hollywood in an interview that aired Tuesday. “I am incredibly outraged by the sort of extraordinary and unprecedented invasion of her privacy. She’s [okay] today, but she’s had a bad week in the very recent past… You understand what stress, worry and fear and being scared can do. She’s quite far along in this pregnancy and she’s carrying two children…. There’s simply no excuse for doing this to somebody. It’s not acceptable.”
The actress alleges that the surrogate, along with her friends and family, have been subjected to threats and harassment by the tabloid media. “Obviously there are those that don’t care about her, or her health, or safety, or my children’s health and safety, and that they should go to term and not go into an early labor and, God forbid, suffer all the things that can happen — that is a real possibility,” she says. “Every single allegation that I know has been suggested about her is absolutely slander and libel … it’s really incredibly upsetting to think of her so far away and me not being able to do something, beyond what I’m legally allowed to do.”
All this comes at what should be one of the happiest times in the lives of the couple, who turned to a surrogate out of necessity. “We have been trying to expand our family for a number of years and we actually have explored a variety of ways of doing so,” Sarah Jessica reveals. “I couldn’t pretend otherwise. It would have been odd to have made this choice if I was able to have had successful pregnancies since my son’s birth.”
The couple have also explained some of the surrogacy process to James Wilkie, 6 ½. “I’ve been pretty candid with him,” she explains. “I kind of chartered my own course with him because we wanted to keep this quiet and so I wanted to be very careful about telling him so he wasn’t burdened with a secret. On the other hand, I wanted him to have time to adjust to the idea of sharing his mama and his papa. My son is of an age now where he really will be helpful. He’s really excited. He’s very much ready to be an older brother. I think it gives him a great sense of pride. It’s wonderful and I just hope for their safe arrival.”
The actress has high praise for the surrogate. “I’m really comfortable with her. She’s made a really big choice to be part of our lives and I think she’s an honorable person,” says Sarah Jessica. “You can’t express enough how much you think about decisions like this … She’s strong, bright, independent, thoughtful, caring, gracious and generous.”
Source: Access Hollywood
– Mike Fleeman
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