Oh baby! Now you can knock-off your favorite celebrity’s designer genes
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Instead of simply wearing a pair of jeans designed by your favorite singer/actor/celebrity/designer, now you can decorate your whole womb! That’s basically the idea behind Los Angeles-based California Cryobank’s newest innovation in donor choosing, sister station KTLA reported Tuesday.
Because the No. 1 question the company gets is ‘Who does this donor look like?’ it started posting the names (and links to Google image searches, though not photos, as some have reported) of celebrities California Cryobank staffers think resemble their donors.
It may sound a bit crass, yes, but according to a company representative we spoke to this morning, website traffic has been up 50% since the end of last week, when the Look-A-Likes feature was introduced.
A quick look at the list reveals donors that apparently resemble Adam Sandler (the baby will look funny, no doubt), Andrei Kirilenko (this choice would be a slam dunk for NBA fans) and Antonio Banderas (what are the odds that ‘Zorro’ appears on the list of baby names in that household?) And that’s barely scratching the surface of the A’s.
The list -- and the concept -- is almost too funny for words, and shows just how celebrity-obsessed the world has become. And the great thing for California Cryobank is that there isn’t really a downside to the marketing gimmick -- because it’s only half the equation and genetics are a crapshoot at best; your carefully crafted offspring could grow up to look like Ed Asner or Wallace Shawn instead of Ed Helms or Wallace Langham.
And we should all breathe a sigh of relief that this feature wasn’t around when Octomom was in procreation mode, because with donors that are said to look like Kirilenko, Walt Frazier, Yao Ming, Antoine Walker, Dirk Nowitzki, Jack Haley, Pau Gasol and Steve Nash, she’d probably be building an NBA team of her own right now.
-- Adam Tschorn
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