Ollie Locke and his husband are set to become fathers.
Ollie Locke
The ‘Made in Chelsea’ star revealed on Instagram that he and spouse Gareth will welcome a child together and he shared some sweet video montages documenting their journey to parenthood.
Captioning one of the clips, Ollie wrote: "I'm not crying, you’re crying! This is the very moment our eggs were fertilised… in 9 months time, after being looked after by a very wonderful human we hope to be able to show you what he or she looks like and how much love we have to give!"
Back in March, Ollie revealed that after finding a surrogate they were waiting for lockdown restrictions to ease so they could fly to the US in the hope of carrying out an embryo transfer from an American egg donor.
Ollie said: “We have a British surrogate! She messaged me and said, ‘Don’t think I haven’t thought about this for a long time.’ It’s a miracle that we’ve found someone we both utterly adore.”
On their decision to go to the US, he added: “Gareth says it’s like the British government allows surrogacy, but it really don’t want you to do it…
“The rules in America are more progressive and it feels like what we want to do is much more accepted and regulated. I hate the idea that in the UK you can’t see an egg donor’s face, so for the rest of my life I’d have no idea where my child’s features came from.”
But the couple won’t know which of them has fathered the child.
Ollie explained: “We’re mixing it up, so it’ll be whoever’s swims best on the day and we’ll never know. Although if it comes out with yellow hair, it’ll be Gareth’s."
Ollie hopes his platform can help ease the taboos that still surround surrogacy.
He said: “I’m aware of my influence. After the wedding was on 'MIC' I got a message saying, ‘You being you has saved my life.’ If I get one message like that every 10 years, then why wouldn’t I put these things on camera? We’re helping people realise they’re not on their own.”
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