Celebrity fertility doctor reveals A-list mothers secretly pay surrogates and FAKE their pregnancies to preserve their figures

Dr Vicken Sahakian told Jodie Marsh that he has 'well-known' clients who have secretly used surrogates.  Celebrities who snap back into shape days after giving birth are often the envy of mothers who wonder just how they managed to do it. 

Now a fertility doctor has shed a controversial new light on the subject by suggesting they may not have been pregnant in the first place.

Los Angeles-based Dr Vicken Sahakian, who works at the Pacific Fertility Center, said an increasing number of rich and famous celebrities are coming to him asking to have their babies via a surrogate in order to preserve their own figures.

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman have made no secret of the fact they used surrogates to have babies in their forties. Dr Sahakian said some are using them much earlier to aid their careers 

Known as 'social surrogacy', the practice involves perfectly healthy women choosing to pay another to carry and give birth to their child to spare themselves the ordeal, and to avoid having to take a career break if their work depends on them having a flawless look.

'Typically these are women who prefer not to get pregnant and not to go though the process of pregnancy for many different reasons. For instance if you are a model or an actress and your income is based on performing and how you look and pregnancy will ruin that for year, if not more,' Dr Sahakian told presenter Jodie Marsh for her latest TLC documentary Making Babies.

Dr Sahakian, who has performed over 6,000 IVF procedures and is responsible for the birth of more than 3,000 babies over the world, said he has had a number of 'well-known' clients over the years who have opted for a social surrogacy. 

He refused to give any names but said some have even faked their own pregnancies whilst secretly using a surrogate. 

Former glamour model Jodie was shocked when she heard this asking: 'So some have used a surrogate then stuffed a pillow up their jumper?'

'We are talking about well-known women,' Dr Sahakian confirmed. 'It would be taboo for them to admit they used a social surrogate. I have had a couple of patients who pretended they were pregnant, yes.'

Jodie Marsh was shocked to hear healthy women are 'farming out their pregnancies to social surrogates'

He added: 'I have had some very famous clients but I am not giving any names.' 

A number of A-list celebrities, such as Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker, have been vocal about their use of surrogates in their 40s because they were not medically able to carry their own child.

The Sex And The City actress and her actor husband Matthew Broderick had twins Marion and Tabitha in 2009 through a surrogate when Sarah Jessica was 44-years-old. They already had a son together, James, now 13.

In an interview before the twins arrived, Sarah Jessica admitted it was not a route she would have taken if she had a choice.

She said: 'We've been trying to expand our family for a number of years and we actually have explored a variety of ways of doing so. 

'This was one of the things we discussed with seriousness that had real possibilities for us.

She added: 'It would be odd to have made this choice if I was able to, you know, have successful pregnancies since my son's birth.'

Meanwhile Nicole and her husband Keith Urban had their second child, Faith Margaret, a sister for their biologically conceived daughter Sunday Rose, via a surrogate in 2010.

Nicole was 43 years old at the time and had a long running battle with her fertility - choosing to adopt children with her first husband Tom Cruise.

          

Dr Sahakian, pictured in 2001, left,  said he has famous clients who have secretly used surrogates (file photo)

Dr Sahakian said his 'social surrogate' clients are typically younger and know from an early age that they want to be mothers. They don't want to delay motherhood till their late thirties and early forties in case it means they have left it too late. But they also don't want to 'ruin' their bodies in their twenties when their career could be at its peak. 

 If you want to climb the career ladder, you can outsource your stretch marks

He said in this scenario, social surrogacy is a sensible choice - if you can afford it. 

He said: 'If your looks have something to do with your income and if you wait till your late thirties you may have a harder time getting pregnant. 

'If you want to be a parent than you are better off using a surrogate and being a mother and a career women at the same time.' 

Jodie said she was stunned to hear that this is happening in the U.S, where commercial surrogacy is legal, unlike in the UK. In Britain, a surrogate can not to paid for their services, although they will be given expenses to cover some associated costs.

Jodie said: 'I would never chose to let someone carry my baby if I was capable of doing it myself. 

'Once again it proves money can but anything, if you want to climb the career ladder, you can outsource your stretch marks.

'l feel uneasy about it., Perfectly healthy woman are farming out their pregnancies to social surrogates.'

But Dr Sahakian said he is more open-minded and can understand why some women see it as an attractive option. 

'Who cares what people think? Do what is best for you,' he said.

Jodie Marsh Is Making Babies premieres Thursday 5th November, 10pm on TLC!

Credits: Daily Mail