A 68-year-old Spanish TV actress has said her newly adopted daughter was conceived using her dead son’s frozen sperm and was born to a surrogate mother identified as a Cuban woman living in Miami, Florida.

“This girl isn’t my daughter, but my granddaughter,” TV actress Ana Obregon told celebrity magazine ¡Hola! in an interview, posing with the baby for the cover.

“If that was my son’s last will and testament, how could I not do it?” she said.

Her son Aless Lequio, died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 27.

Following the report, several ministers of the left wing socialist government criticised the practice.

“It is a form of violence against women,” Equality Minister Irene Montero said, adding that there was a “clear poverty bias” with regards to women who become surrogate mothers due to financial need.