ABC Latest News | Latest News Videos After struggling with fertility issues and losing a baby at 24 weeks, Mandy Stephens became a parent this summer with the help of a very special surrogate -- her own mother. Fifty-one-year-old Sherri Dickson volunteered to be her 32-year-old daughter's surrogate after Stephens' first pregnancy ended in early labor and loss of her baby boy, whom she named Theo.