A mother who faked a pregnancy after suffering several miscarriages is the subject of a harrowing Netflix documentary.
Alejandra opened up in the Netflix documentary (Image: NETFLIX)
Netflix’s latest docu-drama unravels an elaborate lie that saw a woman to cross an irreversible line.
Streaming giant Netflix has just unveiled an emotional trailer for a tragic docu-drama perfect for Maternal Instinct fans, that tells the story of a Mexican woman named Alejandra.
Based on real events that shook all of Mexico in 2009, the film, which features both dramatisations and real home footage, tells of how Alejandra had always wanted to be a mother. However, after suffering multiple miscarriage and noticing the distain from her family, she decided to fake a pregnancy.
The trailer features the voice of Alejandra, who says: “I felt so special. From the moment that the people close to you start treating you lovingly, expectantly, with that joy.
“The way they come up and touch your belly…Many times I wanted to say ‘This isn’t happening, I’m not pregnant’.”
Alejandra explained the tragic reasoning behind her actions, sharing: “When I got married, I felt pressured to please his family.”
Being only 25 at the time, she felt burdened by family and societal expectations and despite her efforts to conceive, she struggled numerous times.
Alejandra then recalled how she met a young woman named Mayra, who she claimed was pregnant but did not want to have the baby. Fixated on the knowledge she knew somebody who did not want to keep their baby, Alejandra began orchestrating her elaborate plan to abduct a child.
She is heard saying: “When I started gaining weight, everything started to change. I wanted someone to burst that balloon of lies.”
In June 2009, she went to the Hospital General de México, where she was employed, and left with a newborn girl, tucking the baby into a bag. Contributors offering their testimony in the film are heard saying: “This was very hard to believe. Yet, it happened.”
Reflecting on her actions, Alejandra said: “What did I do wrong? Breaking the law. Deceiving. Hurting. I think my desire to be a mum was to please others.”
Her story was told in a book by Randall Fuquay called A Child to Call My Own: A True Story of Desperate Love, a Stolen Child, and the Nine Months that Changed Everything. Now, the story has been adapted for the small screen by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi.
A Child of My Own comes to Netflix on August 13