{"id":250,"date":"2009-09-01T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/whos-your-daddy.html"},"modified":"2009-09-01T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:08:00","slug":"whos-your-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/09\/whos-your-daddy.html","title":{"rendered":"Who’s your daddy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people might start to wonder. One company based in California (where else?) is taking the notion of designer babies to the extreme<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Want your baby to look like Prince William? Easy.<\/p>\n

Michael Phelps? Done.<\/p>\n

A California fertility company whose anonymous sperm donors bear uncanny resemblances to the prince, the swim god and other men of note is about to plant its flag in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

California Cryobank’s Donor Look-A-Likes service offers would-be parents the chance to search for prospective donors based on which famous face the sperm donor most closely resembles.<\/p>\n

“I wish I could say all our donors look like Brad Pitt or Warren Beatty,” said Scott Browne, a spokesman for the Los Angeles-based company. “But we know that donors look like all types.”<\/p>\n

So the searchable California Cryobank database at cryobank.com<\/a> leaves room for look-alikes of all shapes, sizes and even questionable celebrity sizzle.<\/p>\n

There’s a 6-foot atheist with looks comparable to “Incredible Hulk” muscleman Lou Ferrigno and quarterbacks Vinny Testaverde and Tim Tebow, and a 5-foot-10 landscaper who somehow manages to simultaneously resemble “Jackass” stuntman Steve O and “Beverly Hills 90210” star Ian Ziering.<\/p>\n

There also are donors who bear passing resemblances to soccer stud David Beckham, magic man David Blaine, washed-up child star Corey Haim, dreadlocked slugger Manny Ramirez and the recently deceased celebrity entertainer DJ AM. And there’s even one donor who looks like notorious baby daddy Jon Gosselin.<\/p>\n

The names most frequently searched for on the Web site, Browne said, include actors Paul Walker, Ben Affleck and Scott Caan, and jocks Luke Walton, Jeremy Shockey and Brett Favre.<\/p>\n

“The intention is not to suggest the child will look like one of the celebrities,” Browne said. “It’s just to personalize the donor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more at the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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