She shocked the world after welcoming a baby via surrogate using her dead son’s sperm at the age of 68 – and now, Spanish socialite Ana Obregon has opened up about being a ‘mum-grandmother’ as she marked her nation’s Mother’s Day.
The actress, now 71, who once made the baseless claim that she shared a bed with David Beckham when he played for Real Madrid, an allegation the father of four has always denied, welcomed her granddaughter, Anita Sandra, in 2023.
At the time, Ana was at the centre of a national controversy in Spain, where surrogacy is illegal, after she was pictured coming out of a US hospital with the newborn.
The socialite – whose son’s father was the nephew of former Spanish King Juan Carlos, Alessandro Lecquio – soon revealed the baby was actually her granddaughter and conceived using an egg donor and her late son Aless Lequio’s frozen sperm.
She said she did it to fulfil the final wishes of her child, who died of cancer in 2020. He had frozen his sperm two years prior.
In an announcement that stunned Spain and made international headlines, Ana told ¡Hola! Magazine: ‘The girl isn’t my daughter, she’s my granddaughter. It was Aless’ last wish to bring a child into the world.’
Now, Ana has offered an update on her three-year-old granddaughter as she marked Mother’s Day in Spain over the weekend.
Taking to her Instagram account, where she has 1.3million followers, she shared two sweet photographs thought to show Ana with her son as a baby, and with her grandchild shortly after she was born.
She shocked the world after welcoming a baby via surrogate using her dead son’s sperm at the age of 68 – and now, Spanish socialite Ana Obregon (pictured with her granddaughter) has opened up about being a ‘mum-grandmother’ as she marked her nation’s Mother’s Day
In a caption translated from Spanish, she wrote: ‘Mother’s Day hurts. My heart goes out to all the mothers who have their angels in heaven. Those who swallow their tears with a smile to survive.
‘I need to tell you that love is the greatest force that exists, that we should try to feel their love from wherever they are. I need to tell you that we will be their mothers forever.
‘Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers who are lucky enough to have their children on earth, who can hug them, talk to them, smell them. Don’t let a single day go by without telling them how much you love them.
‘Collect countless moments with them, because that’s the only thing that truly matters in this life. The greatest pride and privilege is being a mother (at least for me).
‘Now I am a grandmother-mother to an angel who illuminates every second of my darkness. Blessed are all the mothers on earth and those who gave us life and are in heaven.’
Speaking to Spanish TV in April 2025, Ana said her home is now ‘full of stuffed animals and toys’, adding: ‘I even have a little ball pool where she makes me dive in.’
She added that picking Anita up is becoming more difficult as she grows as it hurts the grandmother’s back.
Speaking of her son Aless’ experience, she explained: ‘We live our whole lives saying that we are eternal and nothing happens here. Suddenly, one day they tell you at 25 years old that you have an aggressive cancer.’
Ana and her son Alex Lequio are seen on December 18, 2013 in Madrid, Spain
In a caption translated from Spanish, Ana wrote: ‘Mother’s Day hurts. My heart goes out to all the mothers who have their angels in heaven. Those who swallow their tears with a smile to survive’
Aless died at the age of 27 – two years after he was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare type of cancer affecting the bones or the tissue around the bones.
Ana continued: ‘You think, that’s not what they told you when you were little. So I have many more fears [with Anita], more than when I had Aless.’
In an interview with ¡Hola! to mark Anita’s second birthday, Ana said she had been ‘dead for three years’ after her son’s death. However, the arrival of her granddaughter ‘resurrected’ her, she said.
‘I know I’ll never feel the happiness I had when Aless was with me again,’ she told the magazine. ‘That pain will never go away. You don’t accept or get over the death of a child.
‘You end up accepting that you’ll never be able to come to terms with their departure. Fortunately, Anita now fills my days. I was dead for three years from Aless’ death until Anita was born.’
Anita’s arrival caused a stir in Spain where surrogacy is illegal. However, it is lawful to adopt a child who was born abroad. After she was born via a surrogate in the US, Anita was adopted by Ana and is legally her daughter.
But Ana faced criticism from those who oppose surrogacy, including Irene Montero, then Spain’s equality minister, who branded surrogacy as a ‘form of violence against women’.
Her critical comments were echoed by then Presidency Minister Felix Bolaños and Budget Minister Maria Jesus Montero. ‘Women’s bodies should neither be bought nor rented to satisfy anyone’s desires,’ Bolaños said.
Taking to her Instagram account, where she has 1.3million followers, she shared two sweet photographs thought to show Ana with her son as a baby, and with her grandchild shortly after she was born (pictured)
But in previous comments, Ana dismissed those who criticised her decision to bring up her late son’s child.
She said: ‘I believe that when fathers and mothers put themselves in my shoes and in my soul, in my pain… As I say, I was the owner of my pain. Now, I am the owner of my revival.’
Ana is one of Spain’s biggest celebrities and has appeared on many TV shows, including an episode of The A-Team/
She was once best known for her yearly start-of-summer magazine bikini photoshoot – but during her 40 years in the spotlight, she has been no stranger to controversy.
In the early 1990s, she set Spanish media alight when news of her affair with King Juan Carlos’ nephew Alessandro Lequio broke.
When she became pregnant with their son Aless, the Italian aristocrat was still technically married to model Antonia Dell’Atte, with whom he shares a son called Clemente.
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Ana was a favourite star of Spain’s lowbrow magazines and TV shows before making a name for herself internationally with her baseless claims that she spent a night with David Beckham when he played for Real Madrid – an allegation the father-of-four has always denied.
She claimed they stripped to their underwear before sleeping in the same bed despite their 21-year age difference after bumping into each other at a five-star hotel they were both staying at. There is of course no evidence to suggest this is true.
Ana told two million viewers on a Spanish TV programme during an interview: ‘There were no sexual relations but we did sleep together. I’m telling you the truth.
‘Why didn’t I sleep with him? I know I’m stupid and any woman would have done it, but I swear on my son’s life we did not have sexual relations, because he was married.
‘I swear on my son’s life that I slept with him in my underwear, but there was no sex. I don’t know how I managed to hold out, but I held out.’
In 2017, Ana made the unfounded claim that Victoria Beckham ‘almost pulled her hair out’. The Spanish celebrity claimed: ‘She approached me and said a lot of things, none of which were nice.
‘She was angry because her husband wouldn’t stop sending me messages, and I was replying to them.’
In another Spanish TV interview in 2019 looking back on her life, Ana described Beckham as a ‘fantastic kisser’.
Sources close to the couple laughed off Ana’s claims at the time, branding them ‘ludicrous’ and virtually accusing the actress of stalking the former England captain for publicity.
