Dutch Prime Minister Expecting First Child via Surrogacy

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten said on Monday that he and his fiancé, Olympian Nicolás Keenan, were expecting their first ​child in spring 2027, with the assistance of a surrogate mother and an egg donor.

He made the announcement through his Instagram, sharing pictures of an ultrasound. 

Jetten, 39, became ​the youngest prime minister in Dutch history after his D66 party's unexpected election victory a year ago.

It is illegal in the Netherlands to pay for a surrogate mother. The egg donor and surrogate are friends of the couple who already have children of their own and who had no commercial motives for helping them, D66 ​said in ​a statement on its website.

Jetten is ​engaged to Argentine field hockey international Nicolas Keenan. The couple had been planning to get married this summer, but postponed their wedding shortly ​after Jetten became prime minister this year.

Jetten's party has said that ​the "high-tech" pregnancy was completely in line ​with Dutch rules and regulations and had been made possible through IVF care offered in the Netherlands.

Source: Reuters