Parenting & Family Quote by Cheryl Tiegs

Tiegs frames a morally complicated choice in the language of wholesome admiration, and that contrast is the tell. The subject is a 32-year-old mother who "loves to be pregnant" but "doesn't want anymore children in her life" - a neat, almost marketer-ready split between bodily experience and lifelong responsibility. In a few plain sentences, pregnancy becomes something you can enjoy without the consequence of raising another kid, and surrogacy becomes the elegant solution that lets everyone keep what they want.

The intent is reassurance. Tiegs isn't litigating ethics; she's normalizing a decision for an audience that might still treat surrogacy as exotic, suspect, or too transactional to be respectable. The repeated "she" keeps the focus on the surrogate's agency and character rather than the commissioning couple's desires or the industry's economics. "Help another couple" is doing a lot of soft-focus work: it recasts paid labor (if money is involved, it's politely offstage) as altruism, a gift exchange instead of a contract.

Subtextually, the quote also reveals our cultural comfort with celebrating women's reproductive labor as "amazing" while skipping the messier questions: bodily risk, emotional aftermath, class dynamics, and the legal machinery that makes a pregnancy transferable. Tiegs, a model steeped in the public commodification of bodies, instinctively reaches for a narrative that makes that commodification feel like care. The result is persuasive precisely because it's uncomplicated - a warm story that asks you not to look too closely.