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Sperm bank offers celebrity look-alike donors
‘It’s not that our donors look like celebs; it’s that celebs look like donors’
By Michael Inbar
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 11:11 a.m. ET, Mon., Oct . 12, 2009
Want to have Ben Affleck’s baby? While that appears to be the exclusive domain of Jennifer Garner, women can now at least give themselves a fighting chance of having a child who looks like a movie star, sports hero or world leader.
A Southern California sperm bank has taken to matching its donors to the celebrities they most resemble, putting an actual image to a process that previously had prospective parents sort through an often confusing jumble of printed characteristics, from ethnicity to eye color.
“It’s not that our donors look like celebrities, it’s that celebrities look like our donors,” California Cryobank’s communication manager Scott Brown told NBC’s Lee Cowan in a report that aired on TODAY Friday.
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Want your child to resemble a retired star football quarterback? Vinny Testaverde and Warren Moon are on the list. And for parents who would like nothing so much as to have a child who looks like a journeyman baseball pitcher, Chan Ho Park is available.
Wolfgang Van Halen, who already looks like a perfect amalgamation of his parents, Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, is also there for the taking.
An inexact science
Brown is the first to admit that the matching of sperm donors to famous people is far from an exact science. Instead of using sophisticated face-recognition gear, Brown and a panel at the Cryobank simply put pictures of their existing roster of sperm donors up on a big screen while they vigorously debate who the person most looks like.
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Sperm bank offers celebrity look-alike donors - TODAY People
‘It’s not that our donors look like celebs; it’s that celebs look like donors’
By Michael Inbar
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 11:11 a.m. ET, Mon., Oct . 12, 2009
Want to have Ben Affleck’s baby? While that appears to be the exclusive domain of Jennifer Garner, women can now at least give themselves a fighting chance of having a child who looks like a movie star, sports hero or world leader.
A Southern California sperm bank has taken to matching its donors to the celebrities they most resemble, putting an actual image to a process that previously had prospective parents sort through an often confusing jumble of printed characteristics, from ethnicity to eye color.
“It’s not that our donors look like celebrities, it’s that celebrities look like our donors,” California Cryobank’s communication manager Scott Brown told NBC’s Lee Cowan in a report that aired on TODAY Friday.
...
Want your child to resemble a retired star football quarterback? Vinny Testaverde and Warren Moon are on the list. And for parents who would like nothing so much as to have a child who looks like a journeyman baseball pitcher, Chan Ho Park is available.
Wolfgang Van Halen, who already looks like a perfect amalgamation of his parents, Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, is also there for the taking.
An inexact science
Brown is the first to admit that the matching of sperm donors to famous people is far from an exact science. Instead of using sophisticated face-recognition gear, Brown and a panel at the Cryobank simply put pictures of their existing roster of sperm donors up on a big screen while they vigorously debate who the person most looks like.
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Sperm bank offers celebrity look-alike donors - TODAY People
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