The Real Housewives of Miami star Julia Lemigova has reacted to her wife Martina Navratilova’s controversial comments about surrogacy.
“Well, Martina and I share a bed, but we don’t share a brain,” Lemigova, 53, said on the Wednesday, July 30, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. “We [don’t] always agree on different views, but I believe in surrogacy.'
Lemigova further claimed that Navratilova’s remarks against surrogacy were taken “out of context.”
“I completely disagree with her comment,” Lemigova added, stressing that she doesn’t run her spouse’s social media pages.
Navratilova, 68, sparked controversy earlier this month when she claimed in a since-deleted X post that using a gestational carrier was “just wrong.”
“Surrogacy is just wrong. Sometimes you can’t have it all,” the tennis icon tweeted.
Navratilova subsequently deleted her post after many social media users disagreed in response, and has yet to address the backlash. Us Weekly reached out for comment at the time.
Navratilova has previously been candid about surrogacy, once claiming in an August 2024 tweet that it felt “straight out of Handmaid’s Tale.” (In Margaret Atwood’s novel and accompanying film and TV adaptations, women are forced to get pregnant and carry babies for the leaders of the dystopian society after birth rates declined in the country.)
“I don’t agree with surrogacy, regardless of who is doing it,” Navratilova said. “But nice try tying [sic] to make it personal.”
Navratilova and Lemigova have been together since 2008 and got married in 2014. They adopted two sons in August 2024.
“We are over the moon, recognizing the challenges and the rewards for everybody,” Navratilova told Us in a statement at the time.
Lemigova also has two daughters, Victoria and Emma, from previous relationships. Her late son, Maximilian, died from shaken baby syndrome when he was 5 months old.
“I went to church, but I still didn’t get any answers,” Lemigova said on a season 6 episode of RHOM, noting she stepped away from religion after her son’s death. “In my case, it gave me more grief and pain. I just cannot walk into a church that easily.”
The season prior, Lemigova said that she and Navratilova wanted to adopt a baby. Their plans were put on hold after Navratilova was diagnosed with stage I throat cancer and breast cancer.
“When you’re adopting a child, it has to be about the child. Right now, it’s everything about Martina, and for her [to be] getting healthy,” Lemigova said on the Bravo series. “We’re putting it on hold. You know, we were thinking [that at] any moment, the agency would call and give us happy news that we’re going to have a baby. … Instead, we are fighting two cancers.”
Navratilova revealed in March 2023 that she was cancer-free.
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