A couple with a 37 year age gap say they are expecting their first baby together - via surrogate.<br /><br />Gran-of-18 Cheryl, 63, and her husband, Quran Mccain, 26, met when he was 15 but insist there were no romantic feelings.<br /><br />But in November 2020, Cheryl and Quran met again at a gas station whilst he was 23 - and hit it off.<br /><br />Now they say they are expecting their first baby together via surrogate and say they couldn't be happier.<br /><br />Cheryl, a social media influencer, from Rome, Georgia, US, said: "It was an amazing feeling to find out we were going to have a baby.<br /><br />"We get to start our own family.<br /><br />"I am the happiest now than I have ever been before."<br /><br />Quran, an influencer, added: "I cried with tears of joy when I found out.<br /><br />"This will be my very first child.<br /><br />"I have never felt love like this apart from the time I got married to Cheryl."<br /><br />In November 2020, Cheryl and Quran met at a gas station whilst he was 23 - and started talking about Cheryl's TikTok.<br /><br />Quran complimented her TikTok and asked why she had been crying.<br /><br />Cheryl said: "I explained about my TikTok video and showed him when he asked to see it – and he was very complimentary."<br /><br />Cheryl and Quran would meet up twice a week to record content together and Quran told Cheryl how he was catching feelings.<br /><br />Cheryl revealed how she was feeling the same and the pair started an intimate relationship in April 2021.<br /><br />The pair said how the age gap wasn't a problem between them but Cheryl's children weren't impressed.<br /><br />Cheryl said: "I have seven kids but I only see one of them as the others do not support our relationship.<br /><br />"It hurts me, it hurts me a lot.<br /><br />"They were my whole life and all of a sudden I wanted to be married to someone I had fallen in love with and they didn't support that.<br /><br />"I have 18 grandchildren and I only see three of them."<br /><br />Quran proposed to Cheryl on July 31, 2021, and the pair tied the knot in a small ceremony surrounded by two friends in September 2021.<br /><br />Cheryl said: "We didn't invite anyone to the wedding as nobody was there for us.<br /><br />"It was me, him and our two friends.<br /><br />"We left everyone out and we were happy."<br /><br />Quran said: "It made the day very special for us.<br /><br />"We get a lot of negative comments and we don't care about them.<br /><br />"We didn't make it this far caring about what people think about us.<br /><br />"To keep ourselves happy we stay off the internet - we don't need that negativity."<br /><br />In August 2022, the newlyweds started hunting for a surrogate.<br /><br />Unfortunately, three surrogates were unsuccessful and the couple were starting to lose hope.<br /><br />Quran said: "We went through a lot of emotional stress.<br /><br />"It messed with our sexual love life, I had to save my sperm for the surrogate and we started missing each other's needs.<br /><br />"We have started working on that now.<br /><br />"As soon as we stopped the surrogacy journey we reconnected romantically."<br /><br />Quran and Cheryl found out that their fourth surrogate was pregnant in April 2024 after they all went to the doctor together for the first scan.
