Andy Cohen has stated that her daughter Lucy is likely one of the first surrogate infants in New York.
Showing on the Not Skinny However Not Fats podcast, Cohen stated, “I wished to have the newborn in New York, or I wished my surrogate to have the newborn in New York. And so Lucy was one of many first surrogate infants born right here.”
The Bravo exec stated that gestational surrogacy was prohibited within the state in 2020 however added he made efforts to assist move the invoice.
The 55-year-old lauded then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, who “actually made it occur” within the regulation’s passing.
“But in addition, it was good as a result of it gave me much more time to form of get good at it with Ben,” he added.
In the meantime, in keeping with the New York Division of Well being, gestational surrogacy is markedly totally different from conventional surrogacy, the place fertilization occurs with out surrogate eggs.
Earlier, Cohen weighed in on managing work and parenthood in his early fifties.
“Parenting has modified me in each means. I imply, I feel my priorities have utterly shifted. I feel my sense of accomplishment has completely modified. And even simply getting your children breakfast and getting them out to highschool, once I drop him off at college, I am like, ‘You probably did it, dude! That was a tough two-and-a-half hours, ?'”