Beautiful People aims to help 'uggos' spawn prettier children
by Stevie Smith - Jun 23 2010, 04:24
Helping ugly people have better looking children. How very kind. Image: Beautiful People.com.
Beautiful People.com, the controversial member-approved dating Web site with a zero tolerance policy regarding the inclusion of ugly folk ('uggos'), is back in the news after it launched a new virtual sperm and egg bank designed to help beautiful people make beautiful babies.
Accessed through the site’s Fertility Forum, the new “fertility introduction service” enables budding parents-in-waiting (both beautiful and ugly) to find stunningly attractive members who are willing to donate their sperm or eggs in order to help create aesthetically pleasing children.
“Initially, we hesitated to widen the offering to non-beautiful people,” site founder and managing director Robert Hintze told The Vancouver Sun regarding the virtual baby-maker's acceptance of uggos. “But everyone – including ugly people – would like to bring good looking children into the world, and we can’t be selfish with our attractive gene pool.”
According to Beautiful People, some 600 ‘beautiful’ babies have already been born as a result of users matching and sharing through the virtual sperm and egg bank.
Beautiful People was last in the news in the latter part of 2009, when it revoked the membership status of some 5,000 members around the world after it was discovered their actual weight differed from the weight shown via their membership photos.
“Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which Beautiful People.com was founded,” Hintze commented at the time.
The “fatties” in question had their accounts suspended until they did the work necessary to lose the excess poundage and return to a state of member-approved hotness.
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