Adrienne Arieff is an entrepreneur and author of several books, including the controversial book ''The Sacred Thread''. She wrote ''The Sacred Thread'' after traveling to India and hiring a woman there to serve as a

surrogate mother Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman gets pregnant and gives birth on behalf of another person or couple who will become the child's legal parents after birth. People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons such as infertility, danger ...

for her twin daughters that were conceived via

in vitro fertilisation In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation in which an ovum, egg is combined with spermatozoon, sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating the Ovulation cycle, ovulatory process, then removing ...

. Arieff's positive treatment of surrogacy prompted debate over the ethical and legal status of paying poor women to serve as surrogate mothers. Arieff also co-wrote with Beverly West ''Fairy-Tale Success: A Guide to Entrepreneurial Magic'' which was released in October 2014. The book is written as a manual for young women who want to run their own business. Arieff founded her business, Arieff Communications, a San Francisco-based public relations and marketing firm, in 2002. She is the sister of design writer Allison Arieff.

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