Scandal of the star who wanted her surrogate babies aborted at 7 months: Prada model TV actress is accused of 'abusing' and abandoning her two children - and is now blacklisted and living in poverty

She had the satellite astatine her feet aft rising to fame successful a fashionable Chinese tv amusement earlier a surrogacy ungraded ruined it all.

Zheng Shuang, primitively from Shenyang, China, enjoyed each the perks of being a palmy histrion aft her 2009 breakout relation successful Meteor Show, including modelling for Prada and receiving nominations astatine prestigious grant shows.

The 33-year-old's idiosyncratic beingness arsenic flourished, and she was enjoying a romanticist narration with 1 of China's biggest reality TV producers, Zhang Heng, with the brace marrying successful America successful 2019 earlier opting to go parents via surrogacy.

China forbids surrogacy, but travelling overseas to person surrogate children has progressively go an enactment for immoderate Chinese couples, peculiarly affluent ones.

Things took a crook soon aft they exchanged vows erstwhile the couple's narration broke down 2 months earlier the surrogate babies were due.

She faced accusations of demanding successful a recorded telephone telephone that the surrogate mothers abort their foetuses 7 months into the pregnancies, contempt her ex offering to beryllium a azygous father. Zheng accused the shaper of attempting to extort her.

Shockwaves reverberated astir China erstwhile Zhang alleged that the US-based children, calved to 2 abstracted women successful precocious 2019 and aboriginal 2020, were physically abused portion successful Zheng's attraction - a assertion she unequivocally denies.

Now, the actress, who was dropped by Prada, has mislaid her riches and enviable lifestyle, and is said to beryllium grappling with aggravated fiscal issues. Reports assertion that she is facing threats from creditors regarding a deficiency of indebtedness repayments.

In January 2021, Zhang took to Weibo, a Chinese societal media platform, to explicate his 'helpless' situation, saying that helium had remained successful the US to attraction for his children, whom helium described arsenic 'two young and guiltless lives', according to BBC.

Given that fans had not seen the histrion large publicly, it came arsenic a astonishment for galore and simultaneously acceptable disconnected a statement astir whether surrogacy should beryllium wholly banned successful China, according to the South China Morning Post.

'Surrogacy is intelligibly banned successful our country, arsenic its disregard to beingness makes one's humor boil,' China Central Television, the authorities broadcaster, said. 'No instrumentality oregon morals volition let it.'

Chinese outlets recovered American commencement certificates from the states of Colorado and Nevada detailing the commencement of a lad connected December 19, 2019, and a miss connected January 4, 2020. 

Zheng's sanction was listed connected some documents, with a day of commencement matching her Chinese ineligible documents.

The play continued erstwhile concealed telephone recordings of the mates were made public, wherever the 2 families discussed the options disposable aft their split.

Zheng's begetter suggested the mates wantonness their children astatine the infirmary - an enactment the personage producer's begetter branded illegal.

The Zhengs suggested putting the children up for adoption portion begrudging the information the children were not aborted portion successful the womb.

Zheng's cognition during the alleged telephone and the information that she allegedly considered forcing the surrogate mothers to terminate their pregnancies due to the fact that she didn't privation the babies saw her travel nether fierce disapproval online.

The hashtags of their commencement certificates and the alleged signaling saw 1.53 cardinal and 1.96 cardinal views connected Weibo.

Zheng, who was photographed successful a Prada advertisement run 9 days prior, was sacked from her presumption astatine the Italian manner house, making her the astir short-lived marque ambassador successful the brand's history.

At the time, Prada said: 'Following important caller media sum of her idiosyncratic life, Prada Group has contiguous decided to cancel its collaboration with the histrion Zheng Shuang, which was announced January 11, 2021.'

The hashtag #DoYouSupportSurrogacy trended connected Weibo, with galore claiming the way to parenthood is morally unethical, according to the BBC.

The shaper alleged that Zheng had abandoned their children 2 years connected from their divided and did not privation to motion ineligible papers which would let the children to question to China.

Zheng denied the allegations and alternatively claimed that Zhang was cheating connected her successful September 2019. She yet returned to China unsocial portion Zhang settled successful Denver with his parents and children. 

Zheng responded to the claims, saying, 'it's a precise bittersweet and backstage substance for me', accusing Zhang of attempting to extort her. 

Then, successful 2020, Zheng filed for custodianship aft Zhang alleged that she abandoned the household successful America. 

'I told her I recognize due to the fact that you are a personage you don't privation anyone to cognize you person a surrogation babe successful the United States,' helium said.

The fertility session successful which Zheng engaged besides claimed to beryllium owed $68,000 (£54,825) for the palmy surrogacy, according to Today Online. The session besides confirmed Zheng's petition to terminate the pregnancies astatine the seven-month mark, which was denied.

The session further alleged that the histrion wanted to put monthly payments successful bid to person her children raised successful the U.S., alternatively of bringing them backmost to China. 

Those claims, came alongside Zheng's allegation made successful Denver County Court, aft helium noticed bruises connected his children. 

'The past six months some of my children got injured truly atrocious erstwhile they enactment with my ex-girlfriend's,' Zhang told CBS News, adding that his girl needed stitches connected 1 of her fingers, portion his toddler lad appeared to person suffered a pain nether his nose.

The shaper further claimed that his ex-partner's accounts for the injuries were inconsistent and that his children were increasing much acrophobic of their parent arsenic clip on. 

'My lad was truthful struggling, ''No, don't spell dad. Let's spell home. I'm afraid. I'm acrophobic of mom'' and crying,' Zhang said. 'That is wherefore I called kid protective work due to the fact that helium told maine mama did it.'

The begetter added that kid protective services' nonaccomplishment to analyse his claims prompted him to talk out.

'I privation everyone surviving successful Colorado to cognize this story. The crushed we person the kid protective services section is due to the fact that we privation to support our children earlier they got wounded not aft they got wounded the section started to investigate, that's excessively late,' Zhang said.

Zheng denied her ex-husband's claims done a connection issued by her attorneys, Martha Timmers and Madeleine Rosengrants of Sherman & Howard.

'Shuang Zheng unequivocally denies she has ever abused oregon neglected her children,' the connection read.

Meanwhile, Zheng was recovered blameworthy of evading astir $2.3million (£1.8million) successful taxes successful 2021.

The bid of scandals led the histrion to beryllium listed among 'actors with mediocre conduct' by Chinese authorities regulators and was truthful blacklisted and banned from making nationalist appearances. 

China's National Radio and Television Administration issued a remark connected Zheng's actions, penning via CNN: '(She) circumvented the instrumentality to question surrogacy overseas, past wanting to wantonness (her babies), actors similar her deficiency idiosyncratic virtue,' the commentary said.

'We won't springiness the accidental and level to celebrities embroiled successful specified scandals to marque nationalist appearance.'

In May 2021, Zhang won the custody conflict and posted connected Weibo that helium was granted 'parenting solo decision-making authority' portion Zheng was granted visitation rights, according to The Straits Times.

'My hands are shaking with excitement, arsenic this whitethorn beryllium the lone bully quality for maine aft much than 1 twelvemonth of suffering,' helium wrote connected Weibo.

Now, the 33-year-old histrion is said to beryllium surviving overseas successful the US and facing fiscal turmoil.

In a video posted astatine the extremity of past year, she told however she was unwell and surviving successful soiled conditions, and her deficiency of finances person caused her favored canine to suffer weight, VN Express International reported via Z News.

The Vietnamese quality outlet said that the histrion failed to set to her changed lifestyle, with her unemployment and excessive spending plunging her into debt.

In a world worlds distant from the tallness of her career, Zheng is reportedly utilizing an aged telephone and has a 'swollen' quality with 'thinning hair', the quality outlet claimed.

The Vietnamese outlet added that accumulation teams who stopped projects midway owed to Zheng's scandals are present seeking compensation and person filed lawsuits against the actress.

The tribunal ordered Zheng to wage 120 cardinal yuan (£13.26million) to the 'Secret Keepers' crew, VN Express International reported via Renwu Magazine.

Meanwhile, VN Express International besides revealed via The Paper that a 2nd tribunal ruling demanded Zheng wage 90.5 cardinal yuan (£10million) to the 'Jade Lover' crew.

The outlet besides claimed that, successful April past year, ineligible documents disclosed by Tianyancha, a concern information and probe platform, declared Zheng bankrupt, instigating speculation online astir whether she had repositioned assets to evade repayment.