Sunny Leone opens up about her heartbreaking experience with surrogacy, 'You feel like a failure'

Actor Sunny Leone in a new interview opened up about her heartbreaking experience with surrogacy.

Speaking to Bollywood Bubble, Sunny spoke about having three children in a short period of time. She added that surrogacy 'didn't go as planned,' which made her and her husband Daniel Weber to consider adoption.

Sunny revealed that the surrogacy procedure took her around a year and a half, and that it was 'really heartbreaking' for her at one time, that's when she and her partner made the decision to register for adoption.

Sunny said, "We were going through the process of surrogacy, which takes a long time. It took about a year-and-a-half from start to finish and during that time, before we decided ‘hey, why don’t we just adopt?’, surrogacy wasn’t going as planned. We had six eggs - four girls and two boys. In America, you know the gender and you can do genetic testing and all that kind of stuff. That’s in the US, not here. So we did IVF (in vitro fertilisation) and the girls didn’t turn into a baby, so that was really heartbreaking. You feel like a failure, you feel so low and so upset about it."

Sunny also recalled visiting an orphanage and thinking that adoption would make no difference because she would be emotionally attached to the child. 

"We went there and we were seeing all these babies and I was like, ‘Why can’t we just adopt a baby? What is the difference? She is still ours. We are not connected genetically but we will be connected through our heart.’ So, that process started. Because that other process was not working, this process is a ‘what if’ as well. It takes a little bit of time, a lot of paperwork, a lot of due diligence. Then we found out we were having twin boys and a little girl all in the same week. We call that God’s plan," she said.

After having twin sons Noah and Asher via surrogacy in 2018, Sunny adopted a girl called Nisha, who is six years old. 

On the work front, Sunny was recently in the headlines when her latest video album 'Madhuban Me Radhika Nache' courted controversy.

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