Why I chose surrogacy w/ Rebecca Zamolo
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How did Rebecca Zamolo decide on surrogacy?
With a surrogate, you're trusting someone with your child, and you don't know what they're doing, and you can only control to a certain point.
The second miscarriage hit us like a week, week and a half.
It was really hard. Oh, that, yeah. Because we thought we were just like in the clear. The reason I chose IVF was because I had been sick for a long time. I had ulcerative colitis for eight years. So my 20s, I spent most of it in a hospital at least once a month. I knew I would not be able to have a girl if this didn't work. So we put in a boy as well. He was strong, and she was strong. was weak and I lost one. Everyone thought that we lost the girl.
We're about to find out if Matt and Abby are pregnant. Wait, this is wet.
You know what's on that stick, right?
Matt and Rebecca, welcome to Unplanned.
Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having us.
We're excited.
What was Rebecca's experience with IVF?
You guys are a power couple. You both have accomplished so much on YouTube. Your viewership, your subscriber count, it's incredible. I mean, the views are in the billions. The numbers are just like even too hard to fathom. But my question is, how did this relationship, how did this whole empire come to be in the very beginning? Okay. Rebecca was a professional cheerleader in the Bay Area and I was in a boy band and we were shooting a music video for TRL and she was one of the five cheerleaders casted for the video.
Back when MTV had music videos and you had TRL. Like, this is a long time ago. How long way before? I mean, I was 19 then. So it's been like, it's forever. I was a teenager when we met. But you guys were even younger. No, don't bring up the photo.
You got a picture.
This is sweet. I love young love. You guys were way younger than us when you met. We were in 8th grade.
But still 19 though. That's so cute. That's so sweet.
You totally look like you were in a boy band yeah yeah he had weird makeup in that for the shoot he was in like a white room that's so fun yeah so who made the first move who did make the first move well i think i probably me because he never had no no i i made the first move and then i made the first move again that night i think was like i called her again that night which was like a big mistake
Yeah, true. It's a big mistake to call twice. Well, he called the same day he got my number, like three hours later. And I was like, wow, he's aggressive. And then he called again that night. And I was like, wow.
I don't remember that part.
Yeah, we were young. And I was leaving to go to college at UCSB. I ran track there. And so I didn't want a boyfriend. And so he asked me out like right before I left. for college, which was not part of my plan or his even. And so we did distance for about two or three years. I was running in college and he was touring.
Boy banding.
Doing what boy banders do. Let's go. That's incredible. Yeah.
So when you're on tour, were you, were you calling her every day? Was this, did this cleanliness continue on? At the beginning, you can't call every day. I found that out pretty early on.
He didn't know the rules.
So yes, every other day I think was our, our limit.
Yeah, we talked a lot on the phone, but I was really busy with track and college and like transferring. I was a transfer. So that's always like takes the sec to get adjusted because they're like, who are you, you know, coming in? They've been there for two years already. So it was, I think, really good because we had both of us had our own lives in those college years, which I think are very formative. And then we stayed together. So yeah. eventually you know it worked out but we both had our own lives for a while for like two years two at least two years really and were you but you weren't dating for those two years we were we were dating i mean at any point if he met someone or i did i'm sure we would have had that talk but i was so involved in like sports and he was so involved in his career that
boy banding.
We weren't really interested in, I wasn't like looking to find other guys or anything. I was just like very focused. That's cool. Yeah.
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