Sam, 48, grew up in London thinking he was “stupid.” He struggled with reading due to then-undiagnosed dyslexia, so he pressured his parents into letting him switch to a professional performing-arts school for acting; he landed the first of many TV commercials by the time he was 11. As a teen, he became a backup dancer, working for Tina Turner , Robbie Williams, and the Spice Girls before a ski accident pushed his career toward modeling. All the while, he was dreaming up how he would achieve a different life goal: becoming a dad.

It’s something he first considered when he was a tween babysitting neighborhood kids, and as he got older, he became more certain that he wanted to become a parent. He also knew from a young age that he was gay and that building his family might not be s

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