"As gay dads using a surrogate we felt totally judged - we had no rights over our baby"
Stuart Armfield and Francis Haugen have amassed 1.2 million followers on TikTok, and have recently won an award in the Best Parenting at the Influencer Awards.They use their TikTok page Stuart and Francis to share snippets of their lives as a happily married gay couple who are parents to newborn baby daughter Rebel and son Rio, two, via their surrogates Sam and Carly.
On the social media platform, they have also talked candidly about their journey to becoming fathers of two over the last three years, with all its highs and lows.
Although experiencing having their own family is all their dreams come true, it's not been easy as, in the UK, until a parental order is granted to them by the courts, their surrogates remain the legal parents of their children.
In an exclusive interview with OK! they have opened up about the difficulties during the parental order process with Rio and their concerns about going through it again with Rebel.... "When we went through the parental order process with Rio, we felt like we were being totally judged and that we had done something wrong because one of us had to do a DNA test to show that he was biologically connected to one of us.
