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Posted on 06/24/2026 3:00:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Jordana Brewster suffered a major meltdown during the surrogacy process and she felt like an "imposter" after her son was born.
The Fast and Furious star, 46, is mother to two sons — Julian, 12, and Rowan, 10 — with her ex-husband Andrew Form and both boys were born via surrogate.
Jordana has now explained she suffered an emotional breakdown after attending a scan with the woman — named only as Jessica — which left her sobbing and vomiting.
In an essay written for The Cut, Jordana explained: "I'm driving south, I realised on the ride back, and my child is heading north to a home I don't know, hearing sounds I can't recognise, getting used to routines foreign to me.
"I sobbed and sobbed in my hotel room until I almost vomited. I wanted to vomit, actually, because at least that would be real. Maybe I just wanted to punish myself for not doing what any self-respecting woman can do: Carry her own child.
"Pregnancy and childbirth were rites of passage, and I was grieving an experience I hadn't known I even wanted in the first place."
Jordana went on to explain the decision to use a surrogate to have children "wasn't entirely" her own — revealing she has a medical condition which causes seizures and doctors told her it was "too dangerous" for her to carry a baby herself.
She was thrilled to eventually become a mother to her first son Julian, but Jordana admits she struggled with some complicated feelings about motherhood.
The actress wrote: "I felt like I had a dirty little secret: I hadn't earned my child. The worst part of feeling like an impostor is that it creates an opening for other people's cruelty.
"When my son was in kindergarten, the head of the school suggested I take a year off of work to 'bond' with my son. He had some behavioural issues like talking back and refusing to listen that would have been normal in the '90s but were considered taboo in 2015.
"Rather than consider whether she was gaslighting me, her suggestion confirmed my worst fear: Everything was my fault. Little did she know that, as an actress, I was lucky to work two to three months a year, at most. Little did she know my then-husband was away on set most of the year while I navigated motherhood alone."
Jordana later revealed "some of the shame dissipated" after welcoming her second son, but she underwent further trauma as she underwent surgery to ease her seizures and her marriage to Andrew collapsed.
She concluded: "Six years post-surgery, I feel softer, lighter. Maybe the surgery needed to happen so that I could somehow reconcile the choice not to carry my kids. Maybe that's too simple an answer. Maybe it's both.
"It makes sense to me now that I didn't feel like a mom back then. I hadn't put in the time yet. At our first meeting, Jessica told me that she was doing the easy part; I had the real work of raising my sons ...
"Becoming a mother is earned; it's not a given. Turns out Jessica was right."
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Modern women have done a real number on themselves.
Surrogacy is banned in many countries.
Which ones?
According to Google AI:
In these nations, surrogacy agreements are generally void, and medical professionals are strictly prohibited from facilitating the process:
Europe:FranceAsia:
Germany
Italy
Spain
Austria
Bulgaria
and Sweden.(Italy’s ban is particularly strict, making it a criminal offense for its citizens to pursue surrogacy anywhere in the world).
Other regions:
China
Japan
Saudi Arabia
Pakistan
numerous other Muslim-majority nations prohibit the practice under religious jurisprudence
You can’t always get what you want.
Reality isn’t always fun or easy.
Life isn’t here to give everyone what they want. At least she got children. She will unfortunately obsess and fixate on what she didn’t get.
Interesting. I thought those European countries were ahead of us on things like surrogacy.
Maybe they are.
She chose making dumb car movies instead of staying home and having kids in her prime years.
> Modern women have done a real number on themselves.
That’s a major understatement. I foresee 10-20 years in the near future where “the chickens come home to roost”, when the question of “What is a woman?”, so shunned by the political left emerges from hibernation with a vengeance.
Some conclusions we can already deduce:
Girls and women’s standards of who they will mate with are stupidly, unrealistically high. “6-6-6” men are very, very rare, and girls and women are in a seller’s, not buyers market.
“Riding the carousel” in their 20’s, before choosing to ‘settle down’ with a “provider” male in their 30’s and older, is a *terrible* strategy which leads to failure. Most men do not want a “used” woman (high body count).
Between the ages of 15 to 30~35 is the best time for women to make and raise babies. Beyond that, women “hit the wall” and men will shun them.
Monogamy is still king, and marriage is still the best, by far, way to raise children. Prisons are full of those raised as children in single parent families.
Getting the left to acknowledge any of this will be like pulling their teeth.
Girls and women’s standards of who they will mate with are stupidly, unrealistically high. “6-6-6” men are very, very rare, and girls and women are in a seller’s, not buyers market.
The Wall is undefeated.
Invisible Circus was a very deep movie she was in.
I believe she had some form of epilepsy that made it unsafe for her to be pregnant.
The article says she worked a few months out of the year, tops, while her husband was gone all year.
She’s 46, do the math. Compare her age to the years she was doing dumb car movies. She chose poorly.
“She’s 46, do the math”
OK
46-12 = 32
46-10 = 36
I don’t find that particularly unusual.
These were also her eggs, not donor eggs, so she was fertile. (It was gestational surrogacy only.)
“She’s 46, do the math”
OK
46-12 = 32
46-10 = 36
I don’t find that particularly unusual.
These were also her eggs, not donor eggs, so she was fertile. (It was gestational surrogacy only.)
I’m betting that Taylor Swift pays a surrogate....pleading that she has a torn uterus....blah, blah, blah...It’s not nice to talk about people...but sometimes I can’t help myself. I just don’t see what people see in her. But I’m old...and loved all the gentle music of the 60s and 70s and enjoyed the rock and roll, too.
Oh I see, I misread. My bad.
It sounds like she had epilepsy, which caused her doctor to advise her not to try to carry a child. She is one of the people in an income category enabling her to embark on this alternate solution.
I am not necessarily endorsing that choice—I honestly don't know what I would have done in the same circumstances—but I am acknowledging that she or the child could have died if she had tried to carry; and that her movie-making most probably had nothing whatsoever to do with her epilepsy.
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