"See You Next Year, Baby": The Netherlands' First LGBTQ Prime Minister to Welcome a Child Through Surrogacy Next Year

Surrogate: "We're happy to help"
"This Is Not a Commercial Surrogacy Arrangement"

Rob Jetten, 39, the Netherlands’ first openly LGBTQ prime minister, will welcome a child next year through surrogacy.

Netherlands’ First LGBTQ Prime Minister to Welcome First Child Next Year Through Surrogacy

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten (right) and his fiancé, Nicolas Keenan. Rob Jetten's Instagram.

According to AFP and other news outlets on October 19, Jetten announced on Instagram that he and his fiancé, Nicolas Keenan, would become parents next year.

The couple shared a photo of themselves holding an ultrasound image and wrote, “Someone very special is on the way to us. See you in 2027, baby.” They also shared a photo with Lisa, the surrogate.

Jetten said, “I cannot express how grateful I am to the egg donor, Lisa, our surrogate, and both of their families,” adding, “None of this would have been possible without you.”

Lisa, the surrogate, also said, “My family and I are incredibly happy to be able to help make their dream come true.”

Surrogacy in Germany Sparks ‘Double Standards’ Controversy

Jetten got engaged in 2024 to Keenan, a hockey player from Argentina. The center-left D66 party he leads won the 2025 general election, and he became the Netherlands’ youngest-ever prime minister in February 2026 and the first to openly identify as LGBTQ.

D66 said that both the surrogate and the egg donor are Dutch and know Jetten and Keenan. The party added that “this is not commercial surrogacy.” The Netherlands allows surrogacy arrangements in which no compensation is exchanged.

Meanwhile, in Germany, which strictly regulates surrogacy, Jens Spahn, 46, parliamentary leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), disclosed in July 2026 that he had welcomed a child through surrogacy, then resigned amid controversy.

Spahn, who married his same-sex partner, Daniel Funke, 45, in 2017, had a child through a surrogate in the United States. It is legally permissible to raise in Germany a child born through surrogacy abroad. However, the controversy over “double standards” arose because the center-right CDU opposes surrogacy as a matter of party policy, and Spahn had previously blocked its legalization while serving as health minister.

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