Spanish TV star says surrogate baby is actually her grandchild

Ana Obregon, 68, says her son, Aless Lequio Garcia, expressed desire to have a child before death in 2020

A heated debate in Spain triggered by a 68-year-old celebrity who was reported to have used a surrogate mother in Miami to have a baby took a twist on Wednesday when the woman announced in the socialite magazine Hola! that the baby was actually the daughter of her son who died of cancer in 2020.

The actor and presenter Ana Obregon told Hola! that doctors had encouraged her son, Aless Lequio Garcia, to preserve samples of sperm before he began treatment and that he expressed a desire just before dying to have a child. The samples, she said, were stored in New York.