A Spanish actress who claims she spent the night with David Beckham when he played for Real Madrid has become a mother again aged 68 after using a surrogate.
Ana Obregon is at the center of a national controversy in her home country, where surrogacy is illegal, after she was pictured emerging from a US hospital with her newborn baby girl in her arms.
She posted the paparazzi photo in which she cradles the little girl in her arms – published on the front page of the glossy Spanish magazine Hola! — and wrote, “They caught us. A light full of love came into my darkness. I’ll never be alone again. I’m alive again.’
The socialite’s words were a clear reference to her son Alex’s battle with cancer, which ended in his tragic death in May 2020, aged just 27.
A favorite star of Spain’s trashy magazines and TV shows before making a name for herself internationally with her Beckham claims, Obregon provided an unlikely afterthought for the former England captain’s on-pitch performances during his years in the Spanish capital.
Ana Obregon (pictured in February in Madrid, Spain) is at the center of a national controversy in her home country, where surrogacy is illegal, after she was pictured emerging from a US hospital with her newborn baby girl in her arms
Obregon (pictured left in 2005) claims she spent the night with David Beckham (pictured right in 2005) when he played for Real Madrid
She claimed that they stripped down to their underwear before sleeping in the same bed despite their 21-year age difference after they bumped into each other at a five-star hotel where they were both staying.
Obregon told two million viewers on a Spanish TV program during an interview: “There were no sexual relations, but we did sleep together. I’m telling you the truth.
‘Why didn’t I sleep with him? I know I’m stupid and any woman would have done it, but I swear on my son’s life that we didn’t have sexual relations because he was married.
“I swear on my son’s life that I slept with him in my underwear, but there was no sex.
“I don’t know how I kept it up, but I kept it up.”
Obregon, who once starred with Bo Derek in the sordid film Bolero and had a small part in an episode of the 1980s American show The A-Team, continued to make headlines with her stories about Beckham until her son fell ill.
In another Spanish TV interview in 2019, looking back at her life and romances, in which she mentioned Robert de Niro and Albert of Monaco, she described Beckham as a “fantastic kisser.”
She also claimed in the same interview that Victoria Beckham confronted her at her gym with two bodyguards about her relationship with her husband, which seemed to confirm the reports at the time when the ex-Spice Girl called her a piece of s**t. had called in for stunned onlookers.
David Beckham’s relationship with another woman, his former PA Rebecca Loos, made more headlines when he played for Real Madrid.
Obregon (pictured in 2005), who once starred with Bo Derek in the sordid movie Bolero and had a small part in an episode of the 1980s American show The A-Team, continued to make headlines with her stories about Beckham until her son got sick.
The beautiful brunette, who is now happily married with kids and lives in Norway, did a lucrative newspaper and TV kiss-and-tell about their alleged affair.
The footballer and his wife took a defiant stance against Rebecca Loos’ allegations and sources close to the couple laughed off Obregon’s claims at the time, labeling them ‘ridiculous’ and effectively accusing the actress of stalking the former England captain for publicity. .
The OAP mom allegedly called her daughter, born eight days ago at Memorial Regional Hospital in Florida, Ana.
Only her two sisters and Alex’s father, Swiss-born actor and Spanish TV regular Alessandro Lequio, are said to have been kept informed of Obregon’s surrogacy plans.
The surrogacy report sparked another controversy in Spanish society, with three ministers publicly criticizing the move despite it being legal, as the magazine said it had taken place abroad.
Irene Montero, Spain’s left-wing equality minister, responded to the news by saying that surrogacy is equivalent to poverty discrimination, adding: “It is legally recognized in our country as a form of violence against women.”
Her critical remarks were echoed by Presidency Minister Felix Bolaños and Budget Minister Maria Jesus Montero.
“Women’s bodies should not be bought or rented to satisfy someone’s desires,” Bolaños said.
Alessandro Lecquio has so far declined to comment, but his ex-wife Antonia Dell’Atte wrote in an Instagram post from Miami that the Spanish press has described as a thinly disguised attack on Obregon: “I love Miami.
Ana Obregon presents ‘LaCabine’ at Hotel Westin Palace on December 19, 2022 in Madrid, Spain
“It’s so big that you can avoid meeting pathetic and intolerable people who are mostly selfish and self-centered.”
One of the last OAP mothers to find herself at the center of a scandal in Spain was Carmen Bousada, who became Spain’s oldest mother with twins seven days before she turned 67 at Barcelona’s Sant Pau Hospital in December 2006.
Doctors in Spain had told her she was too old for fertility treatment.
But she traveled to the US with inheritance money left to her by her mother and told the doctors at the Pacific Fertility Center in Los Angeles that she was only 55.
She bought donor eggs and sperm from a catalog as part of a treatment costing £20,000.
She chose an egg from an 18-year-old brunette and sperm from a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Italian-American.
Doctors started her IVF by giving her hormone injections to reverse the menopause she had gone through 18 years earlier.
After the twins were born, she sold her story to a British tabloid and posed for a photo with them for a six-figure sum.
Carmen died of cancer in July 2009 at the age of 69, three years after giving birth to IVF twins Cristian and Pau.
She said in a deathbed interview from her home near Cadiz in southwestern Spain that she did not regret her controversial decision to put her life at risk by becoming a mother so late in life.
Commercial surrogacy is a contract in which a woman agrees to conceive and bear a child on behalf of people in exchange for financial compensation.
Critics equate it with human trafficking and the United Nations describes it as “the sale of children under human rights law.” It is illegal in the European Union.
Proponents of surrogacy say it is a way for LGBT and infertile couples, as well as single parents, to form families, allowing more involvement during pregnancy than traditional adoption.
Due to restrictions in their home countries, people who want to have a surrogate mother often travel to other countries with more lax laws.
Italy’s conservative majority this week said it would try to prosecute people who go abroad to have a baby through surrogacy.
Last year’s reform of Spain’s abortion law also banned advertising of any form of surrogacy. Parenthood after surrogacy is recognized only through legal adoption.