Openly gay *NSYNC singer and entrepreneur Lance Bass has just announced his latest venture. He, along with husband Michael Turchin, welcomed twins to their family October 14.
Bass and Turchin are now the fathers of a boy and a girl, Violet Betty and son Alexander James, born via surrogacy. Bass took to Instagram to share his excitement.
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“The baby dragons have arrived,” he wrote, adding in a string of heart emojis. “I can not express how much love I feel right now. Thank you for all the kind wishes. It meant a lot. Now, how do you change a diaper??! Ahhhhhhhh!”
Bass and Turchin had announced the pregnancy in early June, and revealed that the couple had struggled to find a surrogate, had issues with IFV and even had one surrogate suffer a miscarriage. The two also said they looked forward to helping to pave the way for other gay couples to become parents.
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“There are not many great examples of gay couples having families in the public eye,” Bass told People. “We knew that we wanted to be very open and transparent with our experience because we wanted gay couples to be able to relate to us and say, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re going through that too.’ Or like, ‘Oh, now that’s, hopefully, what we can do.’ And give them a kind of a blueprint of how to do it. If you want to start that family, start that family. It’s going to be incredible.”
Congratulations to the happy couple. Now, when do we get to see the baby pictures?
Mister P
I wish these affluent gay guys would adopt children already born instead of through surrogacy.
Mister Dawson
Who r u to judge? Why can’t you just be happy instead of letting us all know your true character. I wish them great happiness for allowing us all in on this wonderful news.
jayceecook
Correction: “I wish all these heterosexuals would adopt children instead of using surrogacy. They *are* the ones responsible for those children being there in the first place.”
Chrisk
The rule when it comes to gay male parents wanting kids. Rich gays will always use surrogates. Everyone else adopts or has a good female friend that wants a kid too.
Do you want a brand new car or one that’s allot cheaper but has some miles on it. Do you want want a cute lil puppy or will you accept a nice 3 yo mutt at the pound. Rich people don’t do second hand shit. Cars, dogs, clothes, humans, or whatever.
Max
a lot of gay couples want their children to have some of their own DNA. it’s natural for any parent to want that. and adoption still isn’t easy for gay couples. it certainly is better than it was before, though.
LumpyPillows
Really not you place to decide for others, Mr. P.
MainelyStories
Hello? What is IFV? 😉
Also, don’t you wish all those hetero couples would adopt children born instead of through surrogacy?
Saps48
Unless they were having trouble with infantry fighting vehicles, I suppose the editor should’ve caught the mistake…. Has there ever been an instance where the editor corrects the article based on information provided in the comments?
jayceecook
@Saps48 Doubt it. They still have articles up with factually incorrect information that people in the comments corrected them on. I remember when they kept making posts saying Richard Madden was going to be playing the gay character in Marvel’s “The Eternals” despite it being reported (even by Marvel no less) he wasn’t. But GG swore to the high heavens he had “close sources”.
Heywood Jablowme
@Saps48: Queerty does occasionally change the article based on corrections in the comments. But not often. Once they had something on the 1975 movie “Tommy” where the author misspelled the names of the director and all four bandmembers of The Who. They corrected the misspellings after there were howls of derision in the comments… then they deleted the comments!
Sturdivant
Good for you guys – All the best.?
Saps48
I’m not sure what Bass means when he says “There are not many great examples of gay couples having families in the public eye,” because off the top of my head I can think of the Elton Johns, the Neil Patrick Harris’s, the Ricky Martins, the Pete Buttigiegs…
If a same-sex couple is looking into having children, by this point there are plenty of average, every day couples probably right in their own family or neighborhood that they can look toward for inspiration and encouragement.
winemaker
Well isn’t that special?
BoomerMyles
Latest fashion accessory among rich white gay men.
LumpyPillows
Aren’t you a negative Nellie?
GreekKeys
So, only one of them is related to the kids, right?
bachy
I’ve always thought that one of the best things about being gay was that there was no automatic escalator to parenthood.
Mister P
I certainly did not decide anything for anyone. My concern is that there are hundreds of thousands of children with no parents around the world. Affluent Americans should help them before bringing more children into the world.
jrex100
” It’s official: Lance Bass is a daddy.”
No, Lance Bass has a child. He will never be a daddy.