A U.S. surrogate was told she was carrying a baby for a single father.
She later learned the client was a Chinese billionaire, and that he’s already had over 100 of them.
A surrogate, believing she was carrying a child for a single father, is actually having a baby for a Chinese billionaire who allegedly has more than 100 kids. CBS News broke the news to her.
Leaked documents obtained by CBS News named the intended father as Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire and video game executive. Xu Bo has been reported to have over 100 children through U.S. surrogates, granting them American citizenship at birth. A former partner involved in a custody lawsuit against Xu Bo claims he has as many as 300 children. He has disputed these numbers, and has said in a statement that he has custody of 12 children born through surrogacy in the U.S.
CBS News’ @KatrinaSari interviewed the surrogate – who we are referring to as “Judy” to keep her identity private – who said she was blindsided to learn about Xu Bo. CBS News spoke to 32 surrogates for an investigation into the industry. Head to the linked article for more on this investigation.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 13, 2026
CBS News is calling the woman “Judy” to protect her identity.
Judy answered an Instagram ad offering about $120,000 to carry a baby. She signed with Patriot Conceptions, a surrogacy agency based in Irvine, California.
She was told the intended parent was a single father who wanted a big family.
Big indeed.
Leaked documents obtained by CBS identified the father as Xu Bo, a Chinese video game executive.
Xu has been reported to have potentially over 100 children through American surrogates. A former partner involved in a custody lawsuit against him claims the number could be as high as 300.
Xu disputes those figures. He says he has custody of 12 children born to U.S. surrogates. His company has said the total from his surrogacy efforts is “a little over 100.”
Judy told CBS she was blindsided.
She said she trusted her agency to “protect surrogates.”
When she asked how many other women were carrying for the same client, she was told close to two dozen.
Why America?
Paid surrogacy is illegal in China. It’s legal in much of the U.S.
And under the current reading of the 14th Amendment, any child born on American soil is a U.S. citizen.
That means a wealthy foreign national can hire American surrogates and get U.S. citizenship for every child born here.
There’s no limit on how many times he can do it.
The Wall Street Journal reported last December on a network of agencies helping wealthy Chinese clients do exactly that.
Xu has posted a photo online showing more than 100 young children seated in rows. A statement on his behalf said he believes more children bring more blessings.
How many kids a man wants is his own business.
Whether each one should come with American citizenship is ours.
The Agency’s Story
Patriot Conceptions says it handled only one surrogacy arrangement for Xu. It says it didn’t know the size of his family.
The agency also says its staff urged Judy to cancel her contract after reports about Xu surfaced in December.
But CBS reported that her embryo transfer took place in April. That’s four months after those reports came out.
The agency’s founder, Haotian Bai, is a Chinese-born U.S. Army veteran. Stanford’s Hoover Institution cut ties with him after the CBS story aired.
A spokesman for Bai says the agency doesn’t provide citizenship-planning services.
Its website does have a page for international parents, translated into Chinese, with contact through the Chinese messaging app WeChat.
What Surrogacy Is (And Isn’t) For
Surrogacy helps people start families. A lot of people could never have kids without it.
Foreign billionaires are using it to have dozens, potentially hundreds, of children on U.S. soil.
The American women carrying the children likely have no clue they’re being used in what could be a massive, coordinated citizenship-farming operation.
Apparently, money can buy just about anything these days. Including a whole lot of American birth certificates.
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