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29th February 2020
10:37am GMT

The 35-year-old said that that the experience took a toll on her relationship with her husband, as she told how she began to question her role as a woman. "At the beginning, I questioned my role as a woman, I couldn't do what my body was biologically designed to do," she said. "There were a couple of times, I suppose we look back at them now and laugh, I tried to convince Wes to leave me and find another partner because I knew he was dying for a baby." The decision that surrogacy was something they were going to try wasn't something they took lightly, according to Rosanna. "The idea of a stranger carrying your child in another country was awful. I played with the idea for a few weeks to be honest, I wasn't sure if we could go ahead with it," she said. She recalled the moment of Sophia's birth - and admitted that it's something that she thinks about "every day." "We'd seen our baby in the scans but we walked in and she was crowning and my mum was there too, she pushed me over as the surrogate was pushing the baby," she said. "Then Sophia came out and I cut her cord and it was just, how could you prepare yourself for watching a stranger give birth to your child? It was just the most surreal, terrifying, emotional, amazing experience. I think about it every day," Rosanna continued, as she praised their "amazing" surrogate. "It was a big mash of everything, watching this woman, this amazing woman, I can never thank her enough, giving birth to the child, it was the moment we'd been thinking about for years and wishing for and hoping for and I was balling my eyes out." She added that by sharing her story, she was hoping she may "give hope and inspiration" to people who may be going though a similar situation. She also emphasised how important it was to open up conversations around fertility and surrogacy. You can watch her interview on The Late Late Show hereView this post on Instagram