Netflix Dates Maite Alberdi’s ‘A Child Of My Own,’ Doc On Woman Under Such Pressure To Have Baby, She Faked A Pregnancy
Netflix will release Maite Alberdi's documentary 'A Child of My Own' on August 13, following its festival run, exploring the story of a Mexican woman who faked a pregnancy due to societal and familial pressure. The film uses dramatizations to present the woman's perspective, challenging earlier media portrayals that labeled her a baby thief. Alberdi's approach aims to humanize the subject and examine the emotional and psychological pressures behind her actions.
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Ana Celeste Montalvo as Alejandra in 'A Child of My Own (Un Hijo Propio).' Courtesy of Netflix EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has announced an August 13 debut for A Child of My Own (Un Hijo Propio), the new documentary from two-time Oscar nominee Maite Alberdi. The film examines the strange case of Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza, known as Ale, a young woman in Mexico who felt so much pressure from her husband and in-laws to have a baby that she faked her own pregnancy. While sustaining the ruse for months, Ale arranged with an expectant young mother who didn’t want her child to take that woman’s newborn as her own. That, anyway, is what she later told police. The woman who gave birth insisted she had no arrangement to surrender her infant to Ale.
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