Which Celebrities Have Used Surrogates? Famous Families and Where They Are Now
Celebrity surrogacy stories often arrive as a surprise: a baby announcement, a photo, and then the question everyone starts asking — wait, did they use a surrogate?
For some famous families, the answer is publicly confirmed. For others, it is only internet speculation. That distinction matters. Below are families who have spoken openly about surrogacy or whose use of a gestational carrier has been confirmed by reliable reporting — plus what is publicly known about their families now.
And one important caution before the list: seeing a child smiling at an event does not tell us how that child feels about being born through surrogacy. We can report public facts. We cannot diagnose a private inner life.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka welcomed fraternal twins Harper Grace and Gideon Scott via surrogate in October 2010. In 2026, the twins are 15. The family still appears together publicly from time to time, and Harris and Burtka have spoken over the years about parenting teenagers, family traditions and the ordinary work of staying connected as a family.
Their story is especially interesting because the twins are no longer babies in a surrogacy announcement. They are teenagers with their own interests and growing independence. Read the full update: Neil Patrick Harris’ Twins Were Born Through Surrogacy — Where Are Harper and Gideon Now?
Paris Hilton and Carter Reum
Paris Hilton and Carter Reum welcomed son Phoenix in January 2023 and daughter London later that year, both via surrogate. Hilton deliberately kept the pregnancies remarkably private. Even people close to the family did not always know a baby was on the way.
That secrecy became part of the story. Hilton has explained that so much of her life had been public that she wanted the beginning of motherhood to belong to her family before it belonged to the internet. Phoenix is now 3 and London is 2. Read more: Why Paris Hilton Kept Both Surrogacy Journeys Secret.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas welcomed daughter Malti Marie via surrogate in January 2022. Chopra later told British Vogue that she had medical complications and that surrogacy was a necessary step for her, while declining to make her private medical history public.
Malti was born prematurely and spent more than 100 days in the NICU before going home. She is now 4. Chopra has continued to speak publicly about motherhood while pushing back on the idea that strangers are entitled to invent reasons for why a family used surrogacy. Read the full story: Priyanka Chopra on Malti, Surrogacy and Motherhood Now.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West
Kim Kardashian carried her two older children, North and Saint. After serious pregnancy complications, she and then-husband Kanye West used gestational carriers for their younger children, Chicago and Psalm. Chicago was born in 2018 and Psalm in 2019.
In 2026, Chicago is 8 and Psalm is 7. Both are part of one of the most publicly documented celebrity families in the world, although public visibility still does not tell us how either child will understand their birth story as they grow older.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend welcomed their son Wren Alexander via surrogate in June 2023. Their family-building story was unusual because Teigen also became pregnant through IVF during the surrogacy process and gave birth to daughter Esti several months before Wren arrived.
Teigen publicly thanked their surrogate, Alexandra, and connected Wren's middle name to her. John Legend later described the surrogate as having become part of the family. Wren is now 3.
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade
Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade welcomed daughter Kaavia James via gestational carrier in November 2018 after years of fertility struggles. Union has been unusually candid that choosing surrogacy came with complicated emotions for her — gratitude mixed with grief, shame and the feeling that her body had failed at something she deeply wanted.
Kaavia is now 7. Union's openness matters because it pushes against the easy internet version of surrogacy as either effortless luxury or tragedy. For some parents, it can be both a joyful way to build a family and an emotionally difficult route they did not originally imagine taking.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick welcomed twin daughters Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge through a surrogate in June 2009. The twins are now 17.
Parker and Broderick have generally protected their children's privacy, though the twins have made occasional public appearances with their parents. Again, the useful fact here is not whether they look happy in photographs. It is simply that a family story once treated as celebrity baby news has now reached late adolescence.
Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen
Jimmy Fallon and Nancy Juvonen welcomed both daughters through a surrogate after struggling to conceive. Winnie Rose was born in July 2013 and Frances Cole in December 2014.
In 2026, Winnie is 13 and Frances is 11. Fallon has discussed the family's fertility journey publicly, but the girls themselves are still minors. Their private feelings about how they were born belong to them, not to celebrity commentary.
Elton John and David Furnish
Elton John and David Furnish welcomed sons Zachary in 2010 and Elijah in 2013 through the same surrogate. In 2026, Zachary is 15 and Elijah is 13.
The boys have occasionally appeared with their fathers at public events, but John and Furnish have also tried to give them a life that is not completely defined by fame. Their family is another example of why the phrase “surrogate baby” quickly becomes outdated: babies become teenagers, and the questions shift from how a child arrived to how a family tells its story.
So what happens when children born through surrogacy grow up?
That is the question celebrity coverage rarely stays around long enough to ask. The baby announcement gets the clicks. The deeper story unfolds over years.
Long-term research so far does not show that children born through surrogacy are destined for poorer mental health or damaged family relationships. But children can still have real questions about who carried them, whether a donor was involved, what genetic relationships mean, and why their parents chose surrogacy.
We looked at that research separately in Do Children Born Through Surrogacy Struggle With Identity as They Grow Up?. The most useful question may not be whether a child will ever feel confused. It may be whether the family has made enough room for honest questions when they arrive.
The part celebrity gossip tends to miss
There is something strange about the way the internet talks about surrogacy. We become intensely curious about how someone else's child was conceived, carried and born — and then often lose interest just as the child becomes old enough to have an opinion of their own.
OliviaC's question is simpler: Can a family tell the truth about a complicated beginning without making that beginning the child's whole identity?
That question applies far beyond celebrities. Adoption, donor conception, blended families, divorce, estrangement and family secrets all eventually ask children to make sense of a story they did not choose. The adults cannot write the child's final interpretation. They can decide whether the child has to discover the truth alone.
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- People: Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, 2026
- British Vogue: Priyanka Chopra Jonas on Malti and surrogacy
- CBS News: Chrissy Teigen and John Legend welcome Wren via surrogate
- People: Harper and Gideon Harris-Burtka
Featured image: Paris Hilton, photographed by Roger Casas-Alatriste, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Hilton is one of the confirmed surrogacy parents discussed in this article.