Iron Chef Cat Cora Has a Bun in the Oven

Iron chef and lesbian mom Cat Cora is four-and-a-half months pregnant! She and her partner Jennifer already have two sons and Jennifer is also pregnant and due in April. The couple isn’t wasting any time expanding their family. (Cora is 41, which may explain the rush.)

PR Newswire gives us the details:

The Cora’s [sic] share a unique family story in which both women have carried the other’s biological child. Cat’s pregnancy is a result of in-vitro fertilization with Jennifer’s embryo. The couple’s sons, ages 5 years and 23 months, were both carried by Jennifer. She was artificially inseminated for her first pregnancy, but the second she carried to term using Cat’s embryo. In Jennifer’s current pregnancy, both women’s embryos were implanted, so the biological mother is unknown. They do not to plan to conduct DNA testing to determine the baby’s biological mother.

Each of the couple’s children was conceived through insemination or in-vitro with the same anonymous sperm donor, making the children biological brothers.

Hmm. I have to question that “unique family story” part, though. Any readers who have done the same thing, please raise your hands (or leave a comment). Helen and I did half of it, with her carrying my egg. (We’re old enough now that we’re not going to try for another.) If you want to read about how we did it, I’ve described it in detail in Injections, Eggs, and Attorneys: How We Conceived.

Still, Cora’s celebrity is good for the visibility of LGBT parents. I particularly like that the couple announced they don’t know and don’t care which of them is the biological mother of the child Jennifer is carrying. All that matters is that the children will be well loved. Chances are they’ll be well fed, too.

Best wishes to the rapidly growing family.

(Thanks, Lez Get Real.)