Sherri Shepherd is leaving The View and enduring an extremely rough divorce. Now it appears she also wants to give up custody of her unborn surrogate child. Rumor has it she’s worried her ex husband is planning on using the child as a bargaining chip to pump Shepherd for child support.
In June 2013, after trying to conceive through in-vitro fertilization, Shepherd announced that she and husband Lamar Sally were going to welcome a new baby via a surrogate. Sally and Shepherd interviewed a number of candidates for the job and apparently the world is full of strangers who want to carry celebrity babies. Via Essence:
“We’re starting the process of making sure the uterus that we picked is not crazy,” said Shepherd. “I put out there that I would give someone a free weave for a year and a free Hyundai. Literally, we’d be at the club and these girls would be like ‘I’ll carry yo’ baby.’ I don’t think so. Eight different shades of hair color, nine Salt and Pepa cuts, asymmetrical this and braids for days talking about ‘I’ll carry it.’ No, you just got off the pole, you’re on break, go on back to work! So, it’s been a journey trying to sift through the ones with drama and no drama so I think I have one, but I’ll definitely keep everyone updated.”
She also told The Tom Joyner Morning Show that the couple were inserting “our egg and Sal’s sperm.”