Dia Hadid
speaker
762 appearances
58 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 12 Sep
Dia Hadid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like most Indian women we meet for this story, she'd never been taught about the human body's reproductive plumbing.
Her friend told her,
Producer Shweta Desai translates.
Despite India's latest law banning the sale of eggs, the demand continues to be enormous.
Fertility clinics and academics tell us it's because women are marrying later, but they still want to have children.
So they're turning to the fertility industry for help.
At a time when taboos about fertility are shifting, Indian celebrities are openly talking about seeking help to have babies, and there are screwball Bollywood movies like this one called Good News.
Perfect, let's do it.
About two couples who accidentally have each other's babies.
Oh, yes.
Oh, you also Batras?
Wow, we also.
And in India, the ultra-rich can buy special VIP services to have a baby.
In a noisy cafe, Shweta Desai and I meet a man who runs a boutique reproductive agency with offices flung around the world.
He requests we don't use his name because the work he does, he describes it as operating in a grey zone.
He says, basically.
On his folding phone that opens like a tablet, he shows us some of the Indian models and actresses whose eggs he purchases for clients.
Premium donors.
He pulls out the profile of one of these women.
Wow.
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