A Child of My Own is a Netflix docudrama by Chilean director Maite Alberdi that recreates the extraordinary case of Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza, known as Ale, who faked a pregnancy for nine months after suffering three miscarriages and facing pressure from her husband's family to have a child. The film mixes candy-coloured re-enactments of her deception with real-life testimony, before switching register once the fabricated pregnancy ends in her leaving a Mexico City hospital with a baby hidden in a gift bag, exposing the darker truth behind the story.

Ale claimed she had arranged to take the baby from a single mother, Mayra, who wanted to give up the child, but Mayra disputes this account entirely and calls it fiction; Ale was subsequently arrested and is now serving a 13-year prison sentence for child kidnapping, with her husband Arturo having served two years. A judge suggested her desperation for a child may have triggered a genuine pseudo-pregnancy, complicating questions of her culpability, and the review likens the film's exploration of self-delusion to Bart Layton's The Imposter, praising it as a fresh, less violent addition to the true crime genre.