Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers September 17: Carter’s Surrogacy Pitch Blindsides Daphne Rose Walton

DAPHNE ROSE WALTON HAS NO IDEA WHY CARTER WANTS STEFFY TO CARRY THEIR BABY

TL;DR: Bold and the Beautiful spoilers for September 17 have Carter pitching Steffy as a surrogate to Daphne Rose Walton, who has no idea he believes Steffy’s baby is his. The show ran a loved-one surrogacy once before, and it nearly fell apart.

The Worst Idea Carter Has Ever Had

Bold and the Beautiful spoilers September 17 put Daphne Rose Walton in a room with a husband about to lie to her face. Carter Walton has known since September 11 that Steffy Forrester Finnegan is pregnant, and on Monday Steffy told him the baby has to be his. Thursday’s scheduled episode of The Bold and the Beautiful is built around one official line: Daphne can’t believe Carter’s suggestion. The suggestion is Steffy, as egg donor and surrogate, carrying a child for Carter and Daphne.

Daphne got her diagnosis from Li Finnegan on July 14, premature ovarian insufficiency, the news that she cannot carry a pregnancy. She walked out on Carter on August 13, ring off, Paris bound. Four days later a drunk, gutted Carter and a plastered, miserable Steffy ended up naked on the CEO office couch. Daphne came home on August 20 and forgave him, never knowing what he did while she was gone.

The couch has not left Carter alone since. On September 1 Daphne caught him and Steffy behind a locked door, swallowed the excuse that it was Monaco grief, then told Steffy she was her best friend in Los Angeles. On September 8 Daphne finally accepted the diagnosis and turned to surrogacy, and by Tuesday she was telling Carter and Ridge Forrester that she wished the surrogate could be someone she knew and trusted. Carter heard that wish, and anyone following the daily B&B spoiler grid knows what he did with it.

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Carter Used Baby Beth to Guilt Steffy Into It

Carter raced across town on Tuesday to stop Steffy from confessing to John ‘Finn’ Finnegan and told her he had a way out for all of them. Then came the pitch: be our donor, be our surrogate, and the baby becomes a Walton on paper with nobody asking questions. He even reached for Steffy’s history with Hope and baby Beth, calling it the ultimate sacrifice. As of Wednesday’s fade-out, Steffy has not said yes.

That is the part our two-week spoiler rundown called the most twisted baby scheme this show has run in years. Daphne Rose Walton will hear her husband propose that her best friend carry their child, and she will take it as tenderness. Reading between the lines, Carter wants Steffy and nobody else because a stranger’s pregnancy cannot hide the one Steffy already has.

Is Steffy Really Pregnant With Carter’s Baby on Bold and the Beautiful?

Steffy is pregnant; she took two home tests on September 10 and 11 and told Carter herself. Whether the baby is Carter’s is the open question. Steffy says her Monaco timeline rules Finn out, but the soap press keeps asking whether Finn is the real father, and my gut says a paternity test closes this story. Daphne Rose Walton is the one person on canvas with no idea that question exists.

This show has run the loved-one surrogate play before, and nobody covering Thursday’s episode has connected the two. In 2016 Nicole Avant agreed to carry a baby for her sister Maya Avant and Rick Forrester, using her own egg, which made Nicole the biological mother and Maya the legal one. Lizzy was born May 17, 2016. By June 2017 Nicole, told a birth injury might keep her from having another child, nearly refused to sign the adoption papers. She relented, but the lesson stuck: a surrogate who loves the child does not just hand it over.

The Only Innocent Party Left in This Mess

Now stack that history on top of Carter’s plan. Steffy would carry a baby she already believes is hers and Carter’s, hand it to Daphne, then watch her best friend raise it. If I know these writers, that arrangement holds exactly as long as it takes Steffy to feel the first kick. Daphne Rose Walton is being set up to bond with a child, a surrogate, and a marriage that are all built on the same lie. When it cracks, she loses all three at once.

Don’t be surprised if the crack comes from a chart. Circulating spoiler chatter has Steffy agreeing to the scheme next week and a medical professional being paid to fake the surrogacy stages, a paper trail Finn, a doctor, will notice. Calling it now: this story ends with a DNA result in somebody’s hand, and the name on it is the one Carter never planned for.

Would you take Carter’s deal if you were Daphne, or is a stranger safer than a best friend? Leave your verdict on this page.

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Carter Turned Daphne’s Kindness Into His Cover Story

This is worse than the affair. A one-night mistake between two drunk, wrecked people is soap bread and butter. Asking your wife to raise your affair partner’s child as a gift is something else, and Carter knows it. Daphne wished for a surrogate she could trust. He handed her the one person she should trust least.

Steffy or Finn, one of them finally tells the truth, and we lean Finn, because a doctor asking a single question about the timeline ends this. Pick a side on our Facebook page, where the Carter apologists are already losing.