Most women are pretty gosh darn excited when they find out they’re pregnant.
Most women are usually even more excited when they give birth, and finally meet their bub.
But Tara Sawyer isn’t particularly thrilled by the finding out, or the giving birth part of pregnancy – she just enjoys what comes in-between those two things.
Actually being pregnant.
The 37-year-old UK woman says she is addicted to the “thrill” of being pregnant, and plans to be pregnant as much as possible until her “womb falls out”.
Tara already has four children of her own, and has been a surrogate for three babies in the past two years – include one of which was biologically her own. She gave birth just four months ago in January, and hopes to be pregnant again by the end of the year.
She says that when she isn’t pregnant, she ‘broods’ for a pregnancy – but not for a baby.
“Surrogacy is very addictive. It’s a huge rush from the moment the test comes back positive,” she told the UK press. “It’s an amazing feeling to hand over a child to someone who desperately wants it, and I feel at my best whilst pregnant.”
“I don’t even get stretch marks – it’s like I was made to have babies,” she explains.
And despite the fact that under UK law, Tara would be entitled to ask for £15,000 (or $27,000AUD) in compensation – she refuses to accept any money from the couples she is helping.
The first surrogate baby she gave birth to was actually biologically her own, but she says that she didn’t feel maternal towards the baby – and didn’t struggle with handing the child over to the gay couple she was carrying for.