The project of a lifetime… Emblematic candidate of season 15 of Love is in the meadow, Mathieu always wanted to be a dad. Single since her divorce from Alexandre – met thanks to the show presented by Karine Le Marchand – the bull breeder has not abandoned his dream and resorted to surrogacy. He then called on a surrogate mother residing in Colombia. A decision that has his detractors talking a lot… Not wanting to let them taint his happiness, Mathieu made things clear during an interview with Marc Leval on the YouTube channel ABC TalkTVSaturday October 7, 2023. “A GPA in Colombia costs 65,000 euros. The cost of a child born by IVF in France, between maternity and paternity leave, the price of the procedure and childbirth, we are at more than 40,000 euros. Except everyone thinks it’s free. Maternity hospitals bill Social Security more than 40,000 euros., he indicated. Assuring that he was not going to “buy” a child, the farmer said that he was paying “just what France can’t” pay him.
Mathieu: “She receives 1,000 or 1,500 euros per month”
Wishing to deconstruct prejudices about GPA, Mathieu estimated that in France, “we have the particularity of talking about subjects that we do not master”. “Detractors are capable of saying stupid things and my role is to deconstruct all that because when someone tells me that I’m buying a child, I answer: ‘You do it too’. Except that it’s not you who pays, it’s the company”developed the former candidate of Love is in the meadowbefore sliding: “When I am told that I pay the life carrier, I explain that I compensate her. There is no unemployment so in fact she receives 1,000 or 1,500 euros per month.” According to some, Mathieu would participate in “the exploitation of human misery”. Accusations that he brushed aside. “She is a teacher, everything is going very well. She has a nice house, she has two kids. I think she really likes being pregnant and it’s her choice. It’s his body.”, he assured. According to him, his surrogate mother would even be outraged by the messages he receives on social networks. “She said to me: ‘Why are these European settlers still dictating to us what we have to do? We are responsible women, we do what we want!'”added the farmer, suffering from Cadasil disease, a rare genetic pathology.
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