"I'm having another man's baby with my husband's blessing... it's the best decision I ever made"

A woman from Bury is pregnant with another man's baby after her husband gave her his blessing. Kylie Evans, 35, longed to have a baby but wasn't able to have a child with husband Mick, 63, who had a vasectomy 28 years before they met.

Despite their 28-year age gap, the pair were determined to start a family and tried to conceive using a sperm donor who matched Mick's appearance via a clinic.

The couple spent about £6,000 on their fertility treatment and requested the donor carry similar physical traits to Mick like his blue eye and his 5ft 7inch height.

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However Kylie wasn’t ovulating correctly and unable to fall pregnant. Doctors said her BMI was too high to qualify for IVF. At her biggest, she was tipping the scales at 24st 13lb and squeezing into a dress size 26.

The couple then managed to save for Kylie to undergo weight loss surgery, paying out £7,000 for a gastric operation in Latvia. After losing 13 stone Kylie was delighted to fall pregnant naturally after inseminating herself with a sperm from a donor in October 2023.

Kylie is now 36 weeks pregnant and the couple are 'over the moon' to be expecting their son in July 2024. Kylie, a waitress, from Bury, Manchester, said: "Mick was more than happy using a sperm donor.

"The clinic helped us pick one out that would match his looks - his hair colour, his eyes and height. You don't see a photo but get a description.

"The weight loss surgery completely turned my life around, we wouldn't be having a baby with it. We can't wait to be parents."

Kylie said she was 'always bigger but really started gaining weight in her late teens. She had been diagnosed with polycystic ovary