Je l'ai tant voulu

Because she decided nothing would stop her from having a baby of her own flesh and blood, Jeanine Salomone bravely disregarded all taboo and, at age 62, had a donor egg, fertilised with her brother's sperm, implanted in her uterus. Two weeks after the birth of her son Benoît, barely back on her feet, she left again for America to cradle in her arms, her daughter Marie-Cecile who is, in a way, her son's biological twin, born from a surrogate mother. Jeanine had given herself two chances to become a mother and destiny sent her a double reward. Before the medical prowess that enabled Jeanine to become a mother and before the world was forced to re-examine its conscience and ethics, there was just a simple retired school-teacher with a broken dream and a fierce will. Today, Jeanine hopes that one day her children will understand why and how they were born and stand proud. For that reason she decided to tell her story: the struggles that she endured, the battles won, the doubts she overcame in the medical world but also the complicated legal problems she is still dealing with at this time in order to finally settle into being just an ordinary mother of two. Whatever the world thinks of Jeanine's incredible journey to motherhood, her children are sure to find the keys to their extraordinary birth in the secret wounds of her heart and her desperate search for love.