Ms Chris Wallace:

I call the lady who gave birth to me my birth mother, and now mother in that context. I have had two in my life: the one who gave birth to me and the one who I lived with most of my life. They are both equally loved. It is not derogatory towards birth mothers. To me, they are one and the same. I was given up for whatever reason but I had a good life. I am not blaming anybody for it. I loved both. The birth mother was, sadly, dead by the time I knew of her and I could not possibly have met her. From what I have heard, I am the spitting image of her and similar in personality and character as well. She is living on. One of my cousins on her side said, "Oh, Christ", and that she had got up out of her grave to come back and haunt us. There you go. There is nothing derogatory about calling someone a birth mother. To me, it is an expression to differentiate between the two mothers I had.