One month ago today, on March 20, Ana Obregón received a call that she had been waiting for, but that still radically changed her life. It was about the call that informed her that her biological granddaughter, Ana Sandra, had decided to advance her welcome three weeks, so the actress headed to the Memorial Regional Hospital private clinical center, in Miami, to have the little girl delivered to her after a surrogacy process.
Obregón's best kept secret since his son's death had been that. Eight days after leaving the hospital with the little girl, the good news became news of national debate when she was surprised on the cover of the magazine Hello! with the headline: "Ana Obregón, mother of a girl through surrogacy in Miami." At that time, the use of surrogacy, which in Spain is illegal, generated controversy; it was also considered a selfish act to bring a child into the world at 68; although what generated the most unknowns were the cabals about who had been the biological father of the girl.
The contracting of surrogacy by Obregón was even commented on by the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, who called it a "form of violence against women." On social networks, Internet users were no more benevolent and filled them with memes with the image of Obregón leaving the hospital in a wheelchair, a scene that, far from being chosen by the actress, was hospital protocol. On the cover, Ana commented: "They caught us. I will never be alone again."
That was the week of the presumed and the presumed, and also to talk about the mourning process that would have led the actress to become an adoptive mother at 68. Although in all minds the most logical equation was that Obregón would have become a grandmother and not mother, the protagonist had not yet confirmed. But with an Alessandro Lequio mute before such astonishing news and aware of everything, according to her, everything pointed to the fact that Ana Obregón's adoptive daughter was actually her biological granddaughter.
And so she confirmed it a week later on the cover of Hello! magazine. It was then that Obregón revealed all the details of this adventure, and assured that having a posthumous daughter was one of the orders that his son had left him before he died. He confirmed that he had used the frozen sperm of his deceased son to bring a granddaughter into the world and that he had made the decision to do so the same day that Aless passed away.
"No one in the world can doubt that when a mother buries a child, she has to fulfill her last wishes," Ana justified in the face of criticism for the use of surrogacy, the advanced age of the adoptive mother, and the use of sperm of a deceased, a host of situations that in Spain would have made their wishes impossible, but that the lax legislation in the United States on the matter allowed without too many problems.
While Ana and Ana Sandra are still in Miami waiting to be able to head to Spain in a month, television, radio and digital broadcast every little bit of news about their new life. There is no doubt that it is one of the topics of the year and this story will cover the front pages of the gossip press for many years. What's more, some covers have already touched the limits of the right to privacy, for example, with the report published by Lecturas about Ana Sandra's pregnant woman.
And as generally happens with matters surrounding the private lives of celebrities, there is an official and an unofficial version of everything. Some digital outlets have ventured to report stories about Carolina Monje, Aless Lequio's ex-girlfriend, about her position towards her ex-boyfriend's posthumous daughter and about her relationship with Ana Obregón, who according to Vanitatis wrote her a message so that she could meet the girl when they returned to Spain.
But, without a doubt, the final piece of history has been the book that Aless Lequio began to write before he died and that Ana Obregón finished to raise money for the foundation that bears his son's name. He has titled it The boy with the shrews and it gives the details of a story already known to all, because since Aless was diagnosed with cancer rivers of electronic ink have been written, and the actress is determined that her legacy continues to give what to talk
