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When Katey Sagal married Kurt Sutter, she was 50 years old, and already had two kids from a previous marriage. At first the pair was reluctant to have a child. Sagal told People in 2017, “When Kurt and I first got together, he wasn’t interested in having any more children. He was happy being the stepparent to Sarah and Jackson. But he’d never had his own biological children, so about five years into the relationship we started toying with the idea of maybe we should raise a child together.”
Sagal — whose first pregnancy resulted in a stillborn daughter via C-section in 1991 — was 55 by the time she and Sutter were ready to try and have a kid of their own. “At this point I was too old to carry a child,” she’s quoted in People.
The couple ultimately decided to use a surrogate mother to have their daughter. They weren’t sure how viable their embryos would be, but they say they left it up to chance. Sagal told People they thought, “Let’s give it a shot and if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be.”
Turns out it was meant to be: in 2007, Esme Louise was born. Esme is now 12. “That’s why we call her our little miracle, our beautiful miracle,” Sagal told People.
Written by: Nicki
