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This is a photos of Lorenzo Lamas, his wife Shawna Craig (the brunette) and his daughter Shayne Lamas (the blonde) and her husband. Shayne Lamas is 28 years old. Shawna Craig is 27 years old. Shawna is also her step-daughter’s surrogate. This is happening, people. Shayne Lamas was having major issues carrying a fetus to term, so Shayne asked her stepmother – who is a year younger – to be her surrogate. Modern family, eh?

ONLY in the new issue of ‘Closer Weekly,’ Shayne Lamas — who recently announced she was having a baby via surrogate — exclusively reveals the very special woman carrying her baby is her stepmom, Shawna Craig!

“Shawna’s not just my stepmother, she’s like a soul sister,” Shayne, 29, gushes in the new issue of ‘Closer.’ Shawna, 28, is the fifth wife of her father, Lorenzo Lamas. “She’s an angel that blessed my whole family, including my father.”

Last year, Shayne lost a baby boy she was carrying after a rare uterine rupture and found out she and husband Nik Richie could never have kids again. But Shawna, who insists she never desired a baby of her own, works for a fertility agency that connects couples who can’t get pregnant with egg donors and surrogates and realized she could help Shayne and Nik.

“I’m ecstatic to be pregnant. It’s the best thing in the world,” Shawna, due on July 10, tells ‘Closer.’ ‘Closer Weekly’ can also reveal that the couple is expecting a baby boy! Shayna says while the situation isn’t ordinary, this baby has helped bring the entire family closer.

“It is weird. Somebody else carrying your baby is weird. But I lost my son, and now Shawna is carrying my son. I have just been given the biggest blessing in the whole world and I will always be grateful,” Shayna told ‘Closer.’

[From Closer Weekly]

My take: this is mostly an unusual and surprisingly touching story of two women who are like sisters, with one woman making a tremendously selfless act to help her friend. The fact that they’re family members is wonderful. But the ick factor comes in when you realize that Lorenzo Lamas is 57 years old and married to his fifth wife, and the wife is one year younger than his oldest daughter. But still… everyone involved is a consenting adult and it’s fine. I hope everything turns out okay.

Photos courtesy of Getty, Closer Magazine, WENN.