{"id":25911,"date":"2025-07-15T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/?p=25911"},"modified":"2025-07-15T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:58:03","slug":"reality-tv-star-sparks-debate-after-declaring-surrogacy-is-wrong-despite-adopting-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/07\/15\/reality-tv-star-sparks-debate-after-declaring-surrogacy-is-wrong-despite-adopting-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV star sparks debate after declaring &#8216;surrogacy is wrong&#8217;, despite adopting herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/2025\/03\/31\/all-the-real-housewives-making-the-most-money-from-their-very-saucy-onlyfans-accounts\/\">The Real Housewives of Miami<\/a>, Julia Lemigova is in tears as she explains to her co-stars that she and Martina Navratilova have &#8220;expanded their family.&#8221; Julia and Martina adopted two brothers who were three and one and a half years old. The reality TV stars are clearly advocates of adoption, but when it comes to other ways of expanding families, it seems Martina has a controversial take on surrogacy.<\/p>\n<h2>Martina and Julia &#8220;expanded their family&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julia&#039;s call that changed everything within the group... #RHOM #JuliaLemigova #RealHousewivesOfMiami\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3_RxF-GGwEg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/2025\/01\/07\/a-peek-inside-guerdy-abrairas-birthday-party-and-it-seems-the-rhom-cast-are-bffs-with-a-newbie\/\">RHOM<\/a> season seven, Julia and Martina reveal the awesome news that they&#8217;ve expanded their family.<\/p>\n<p>While the ladies welcomed two new bundles of joy into their lives<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-SPsKbKZInQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entertainment Tonight<\/a> last month, Julia said having two boys at home has been a &#8220;beautiful source of energy for her and Martina.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added: &#8220;The road to adoption was so hard, I&#8217;m not going to lie, it was a lot of bumpy twists and turns. But, it&#8217;s so rewarding and there is nothing more powerful than a mother&#8217;s love, whether it&#8217;s by birth or by choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Julia continued to say how having sons brought out a totally different side to Martina, adding how she seems &#8220;20 years younger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Martina&#8217;s deleted tweet sparks debate<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Martina Navratilova with a message regarding surrogacy \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RHOM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RHOM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g7LNlGCCHb\">pic.twitter.com\/g7LNlGCCHb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Real Housewives Polls (@TheRHPolls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRHPolls\/status\/1944395739783635205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Although Martina is clearly an advocate for adoption, she seemingly shared a controversial take on another way people choose to welcome kids into the world &#8211; surrogacy.<\/p>\n<p>In a now-deleted X post, shared by a fan account, Martina allegedly wrote: &#8220;Surrogacy is just wrong. Sometimes you can\u2019t have it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/2025\/07\/10\/a-former-reality-tv-star-has-just-been-appointed-as-chief-of-nasa-and-were-all-doomed\/\">reality TV<\/a> star has sparked online debate since the alleged post went live.<\/p>\n<p>Some people jumped to Martina&#8217;s defence, writing: &#8220;She is entitled to voice her opinion as is everyone else, you don&#8217;t have to agree with her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But others pointed out how the view could be deemed somewhat hypocritical, as Martina and Julia opted to expand their family in an &#8220;alternative&#8221; way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Reality Shrine reached out to Martina Navratilova for comment. For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Reality Shrine<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/realityshrineofficial?rdid=TzQu2kEd2cUqU4rD&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F14zX5cKubf%2F#\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial post has since been 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