"I was heartbroken knowing I carried a baby I didn't know was mine and that he was taken from me without my knowledge and was in the arms of other people where he did not belong," Jessica Allen told The Independent.
The 31-year-old had decided to undergo a commercial surrogacy so that she could put the money towards a deposit on a home with her partner Wardell Jasper, 34.
The practice is legal in California where they live and Ms Allen, who already had two children of her own, agreed a fee of $35,000 (£26,600) to give birth to another woman's child.
But after undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF), doctors told Ms Allen she was carrying two baby boys.
But after giving birth, she said in a separate interview with The New York Post that she was not able to see them.
About a month later, she received a picture from the babies from the mother, asking why the newborns looked different.
A DNA subsequently revealed that one of the boys was her biological match, while the other matched with a surrogate - an extremely rare medical incident called superfetation.
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