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Mother who gave birth to her own brother and sister: An extraordinary story raising profound questions about surrogacy and the future of the family • Ellen Bown has had three children, but only one is her 'official' daughter • She was a surrogate for her mother, Jenny, and stepfather, Tony • Twins Alex and Ruth are biologically her children and legally her siblings • Ellen's daughter Maddy is both half-sister and niece to the twins By Published: 22:10 GMT, 8 April 2015 Updated: 14:35 GMT, 9 April 2015. The photograph, now faded and creased, shows three happy, chubby faces staring out. Twin babies are snuggled up on a sofa beside a smiling girl with tumbling black curls. The image is the treasured possession of Maddy Bown, the older child in the picture, and it’s one she keeps in her purse at all times. Maddy is now 17, while the twins — Alex and Ruth — are 12.

Looking back reminds them all of their carefree early childhood: rainy holidays in Wales, blustery dog walks, pretending to fly on the swings in the park. As idyllic as it may sound, though, the fact is that the people in this portrait are as far removed from a traditional family as you can get. Scroll down for video. This graphic explains the complicated biological and adoptive relationships that are present between Ellen Bown's (far right) family One woman — Ellen Bown — gave birth to all three of the children in the picture. But only Maddy is her ‘official’ daughter. When it comes to Alex and Ruth, Ellen acted as a surrogate for her own mother, Jenny. Ellen used her own eggs, fertilised with her stepfather Tony’s sperm.

So, biologically, twins Alex and Ruth are teenager Maddy’s half-brother and half-sister. But legally — having been adopted by Ellen’s mother Jenny and stepfather Tony a week after their birth — they are now her aunt and uncle.

Which brings with it another mind-boggling twist. To the twins, Ellen Bown is both their biological mother and their legal half-sister. Rainbow Six Lockdown Pc Full Game. Meanwhile, Jenny and Tony are their biological grandparents but legal parents. To say it’s an unconventional and complicated set-up would be an understatement — but it certainly isn’t unique. Share Just last month, the Mail broke the story of Anne-Marie Casson, a mother who brought a child into the world for her single, gay son, Kyle.

Unlike Ellen in this instance, she did not use her own eggs, rather acting as a surrogate for a donor egg fertilised by Kyle’s sperm. And in February, retail expert Mary Portas revealed that her brother, Lawrence, is the genetic father of her son, Horatio, two. Horatio was conceived through IVF, using Lawrence’s sperm to fertilise an egg from Melanie Rickey, Portas’s wife of five years. Such stories have — understandably — sparked debate.

Some have labelled these very modern interpretations of the family unethical, and have questioned the robustness of our surrogacy and fertility laws. But Ellen Bown and her mother Jenny Dias insist there is nothing perturbing about their situation... Well, apart from the perplexing issue of what on earth they all call each other. Ellen (left) has given birth to three children - Maddy, Alex and Ruth - but only Maddy is her 'official' daughter, Alex (right) and Ruth (centre) were legally adopted by Ellen's mother Jenny, and stepfather, Tony ‘We have always tried to stick to the adoptive relationships,’ says Jenny, 65, a retired saleswoman and receptionist. ‘So the twins call me and Tony “Mummy” and “Daddy”, as you’d expect.

It’s only different with Ellen. ‘We got around that by them calling her “Tummy Mummy”. So I’m Mummy, she’s Tummy Mummy. That worked while the twins were little — now they just call her “Ellen”. She is a second mum to them.’ Ellen, 46, a trainee midwife, nods. ‘We have been open with all of them from the beginning about where they came from. Maddy was five when the twins were born.

She knew that I was growing something in my tummy for Granny and Grandad and that, when they were born, they were going to live with them.’ Alex — bubbly, polite and dressed in a smart blue suit and school shoes — chimes in, unprompted: ‘People ask me all the time at school, but it’s just labels. We’re a normal family.’ ‘Normal’ may well be a stretch for some people, but it’s clear from a few minutes in the extended family’s company that they are a closely knit, happy unit. Ellen (seated centre) says the family have been open with all three of the children right from the beginning Twelve-year-old Ruth, a tiny, pretty thing with huge brown eyes, sits on her half-sister/aunt Maddy’s knee, showering her with kisses and posing for selfies. Alex kicks his chair leg and is gently told off by adoptive dad Tony. Ellen appears and Ruth loiters by her birth mother’s side, then bounds over towards her adoptive mum Jenny to cling to her arm. There are striking similarities between the twins and their biological parents, Ellen and Tony. Both have Ellen’s openness and warm smile, Tony’s mischievous eyes and striking dark skin (he was born in Kenya and grew up in India before moving to Britain).