Olivia Maurel Author

Olivia Maurel is 35 years old, married and mother of three children and In Search of My Mother is Olivia Maurel’ autobiography. She was ‘made to order’ for a wealthy French couple; born to a surrogate mother in Kentucky, USA. She did not know about the circumstances of her birth until she was 30 years old when a DNA Ancestry test revealed US relatives and no French genetic heritage. Olivia looks back at her childhood lived between France and the USA. In spite of her affluent lifestyle, she felt lonely and out of place. Drawing on her own experience, Olivia Maurel has become a fierce abolitionist. She calls surrogacy the objectification of women's bodies, the deprivation of surrogate mothers’ freedom, and the falsification of their consent. Surrogacy also involves high-risk pregnancies and the contractual purchase of a child. As the spokeswoman for The Declaration of Casablanca – an international group wanting to abolish all forms of surrogacy globally – Olivia travels the world in pursuit of this task.