{"id":364144,"date":"2026-04-04T23:57:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364144\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:57:27","slug":"chris-shares-tragic-surrogacy-journey-update-since-mafs-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364144\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris shares tragic surrogacy journey update since MAFS Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When he joined the show he had two babies on the way<\/p>\n<p>On MAFS Australia 2026, we\u2019ve just been introduced to two new intruder grooms, Chris and Sam. Throughout most of his <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/mafs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MAFS<\/a> wedding day, Chris Robinson was nervous to tell his new groom that he was currently on a surrogacy journey.<\/p>\n<p>The groom decided three years ago that he wanted to start a family. At that time, he wanted to become a single dad. Chris was already an uncle, and felt as though something was missing in his life \u2013 children of his own.<\/p>\n<p>On MAFS Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/2026\/04\/02\/chris-reveals-why-he-went-on-mafs-australia-with-two-kids-on-the-way-as-he-gets-called-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris said he had two babies on the way<\/a>, by two different women. He had been a donor for a lesbian couple, and he also had a baby on the way himself, through a surrogate. The couple he has been a donor for are close friends, and his surrogate is a woman in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-599750\" class=\"wp-image-599750 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VS-MarriedatFirstSightAustralia-Series13Episode15Channel4-3110.jpg\" alt=\"Chris on MAFS Australia 2026\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-599750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via E4<\/p>\n<p>There has been an update in Chris\u2019 surrogacy journey, that was whilst MAFS was filming<\/p>\n<p>There has been an update on both children since. The close friends Chris had been a donor for welcomed a baby girl, in late 2025. She arrived just one day after he married Sam!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love her so much and I get really emotional when I talk about her \u2013 it\u2019s happening right now, I\u2019ll try to contain it \u2013 I just love her so much, she\u2019s got me wrapped around her little finger. It\u2019s the best,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/9now.nine.com.au\/married-at-first-sight\/mafs-2026-australia-chris-robinson-welcomes-first-child-surrogacy-journey-fatherhood\/da3a4ad4-151d-4ede-bb60-5a863f3fc6eb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris said in an interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chris has shared a tragic update on the second child he had on the way. \u201cUnfortunately whilst I was filming, there was a bit of an issue around my surrogate journey,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pedestrian.tv\/entertainment\/mafs-chris-intruder-surrogacy-journey-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris told PEDESTRIAN.TV<\/a>. \u201c[We] had a couple of embryos and the surrogate unfortunately lost one of them, so it was a bit of a sad moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This made his journey on the show much more difficult. He added: \u201cThe experiment is so tough in itself. You\u2019re dealing with so much and there\u2019s a lot of emotions, so obviously that was pretty hard to process especially in the environment as well.\u00a0So it\u2019s been tough, but I\u2019ve pushed through it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all the latest MAFS news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theholychurchofmafs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">like The Holy Church of MAFS on Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When he joined the show he had two babies on the way On MAFS Australia 2026, we\u2019ve just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1862,156,19652,111,139,69,1093],"class_list":{"0":"post-364144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dating","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-mafs","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-reality-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}