Michelle Ross in her hometown of Ohio. Ross is the surrogate mother of Sarah Jessica Parker’s twins. (Brigitte Stelzer / Splash News)
MARTINS FERRY, Ohio — A year after she bore twins for Sarah Jessica Parker, not much has improved for surrogate Michelle Ross — she’s living in the same dilapidated house, driving the same Ford Taurus, and is working hard to get by.
But although her celebrity surrogacy — which was at the center of a police scandal over pilfered ultrasound pictures — made Ross somewhat of a pariah in her town, she’s pregnant again with another couple’s child.
“The last year has been really hard on her, everything that happened with the police here,” her boyfriend, Justin Williams, told The Post. “She really believes in surrogacy and wants to get the word out, but she doesn’t want to be in the limelight.”
Nearly a year ago, Ross, 27, delivered twin girls — Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge — to Parker and hubby Matthew Broderick in a deal believed to have netted her the going rate of $30,000.
But she couldn’t live in a world more different from Parker’s.
While the superstar actress lives with her brood in a tony town house in Manhattan’s West Village, Ross toils in depressed Martins Ferry.
“This is the armpit of the world,” admitted Paul Folmar, who has lived in Martins Ferry for 12 years. “Sarah Jessica Parker is rich. There ain’t anyone rich in this town. We are all poor. Sarah Jessica Parker must have laughed at this place.”
But an owner of the Growing Generations surrogacy agency, Kim Bergman, said the actress and Ross had a relationship that “was quite good, all during the surrogacy and even now.
“She’s actually having another baby for a different client . . . It speaks to her comfort level,” Bergman said.
Parker’s lawyer, Martin Singer, added that his client’s relationship with Ross was “wonderful during the pregnancy, and continuing even through today.”
Ross moved to Martins Ferry — population 7,226 — from Florida because the laws were better for surrogates in Ohio.
She first bore a girl for a gay New York couple in 2008 and now works for Growing Generations as a “surrogate development coordinator” under the name “Michelle Lynn.”
“Though all aspects of surrogacy amaze me, I have a soft spot for my surrogates — I have been there,” Ross says in her online profile. Ross lives in a $90,000 rented house with her 5-year-old son, Brayden, her boyfriend, a dog, three cats and a ball python named Prada.
Ross declined a request to be interviewed.