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For Christmas this year Fay Purdham and fiance Christopher Dodd won't be exchanging presents.

There's only one thing they both want, and it would take a festive miracle for it to happen - a baby.

Transgender Fay hopes to be the biological father and adoptive mother of a child and has launched a campaign to find a s urrogate mother and egg donor.

Fay said: "I'm a woman and I am a future mum. I can't tell you how much Christopher and I both desperately want to become parents.

“The best Christmas present would be if we found someone amazing who could share this journey with us."

The couple are saving any spare cash they have to increase their chances of becoming parents. Fay, a model, has launched a Go Fund Me campaign to raise the £100,000 so that she can make her dream come true.

"At the moment I feel like my best option is to find a surrogate in America where they are far more professional. It will cost £100,000 to pay for a surrogate to provide me with eggs and carry the child,” she says.

Explaining why she feels the need to travel so far she says: “In the UK you can't pay people, it's only expenses.

"I've asked friends and family but it's a big thing to ask of someone.

"My sister looked into becoming a surrogate but she can't because of the medication she takes for alopecia.

“But if I could find a UK egg donor and surrogate, it would change everything.”

Fay, 27, from Newcastle was born Kevin McCamley. However she has always known she wants to be a mum.

“I told my mum I wanted to be a mother when I was six, even before I told her I wanted to be a girl,” says Fay.

Aged 16 she froze her sperm before transitioning.

"It's cost £60,000 in surgery to become a woman, half paid by the NHS,” she explains.

Aged 19 Fay changed her name by deed pole and she had her first gender reassignment surgery at 21.

After a long journey she is proud of her transformation and recently came third in the first Miss Transgender UK finals.

“ For years people told me that I was gay . But I wasn't, I was transgender. Now all I want is to be a beautiful woman and a wonderful mum.”

She and fiance Chris, 24, have known each other since they were best friends at school.

"In ideal world I would have two or three children via an egg donor and a surrogate. I would love to have at least one child using my sperm and one using Chris'.

"When I think of the money spent on IVF for women, it makes me feel funny. That's not something available to me."

However, she refuses to be downhearted: “When we're walking down the street and I see little boys and girls I just have to think one day we will have that too.”

"We would love to have a baby by next Christmas. Christopher and I are holding off on the wedding because our priority is to make our family happen."

To donate to Fay's fund-raising campaign visit https://www.gofundme.com/faylouisemum2be