Sperm Bank Claims They Have Celebrity Look Alike Donors
I'll take Johnny Depp please!
Is that the way the clients of California Cryobank sperm bank order their baby makers?
Apparently the California Cryobank has come up with the idea of matching up their sperm donors with famous celebrity faces. Are they genius entrepreneurs helping their clients make a tough decision of who they should pick as their baby daddy? Or are they just trying to make more money than other sperm banks by claiming their donors are celebrity look alikes? Or both?
How does this sperm bank match their donor's faces with celebrities? With high tech face-recognition? Nope!
Employees of Cryobank sit around a table and put the donor's pictures up on a screen and argue which celebrity looks like that donor the most. When they come to a consensus, they add that information to the donor's file, and then the donor's name goes into a huge data bank. Clients can then search the data base for a donor by which celebrity they want their child to look like.
Although clients are not allowed to see the donor's ACTUAL picture by law, clients can search for a potential donor by picking out a celebrity name.
Too superficial?
How will the general public weigh in on this?
I wonder if someone will pass up a donor with a better IQ, for a donor that looks like Mario Lopez? I also wonder if people out there will pick a celebrity look alike in hopes on trying to cash in on their offspring down the line, especially if their child ends up as a dead ringer of a celebrity.
Hey Kate Gosselin, this has your name all over it! Only eight kids? What's the big deal? The Duggars have you beat by a landslide! It can be your new show! "Kate Plus Eight Plus Elvis!"
And remember Kate, there is a plus side besides the new show...which ever donor you pick... he can't take money out of your bank account!
Now I have seen just about every way there is to make a buck in the ol' USA, and a lot of it ain't too pretty. And there are some wackos out there who may try to claim that their child is the child of an actual celebrity. I wouldn't put it past them. Far fetched? Perhaps.
But take the case of a women trying to collect millions from Keanu Reeves. She is claiming that he is the father of at least one of her four adult children. *snicker*
Even though Reeves took a DNA test to prove that he wasn't the father, and he also said he never met the women, she still isn't backing off.
What did Reeves have to say about this whole ordeal?
Rest assured, he didn't say, "eeeeeexcellent!" *snicker*
Of course Cryobank does have a disclaimer to cover their butts in this overly litigious world:
“No celebrity is meant as an exact match for any donor, nor should you assume that your future children will look like any celebrity listed."
NBC's Today Show covered the sperm bank story, and on this video, you can see the employees sitting around a table with the donor's picture on a screen and trying to figure out who the donors most resemble. Man, where do I sign up for this cream puff gig? Continued on the next page
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