China CEO who has 4 children from ‘high-quality’ US sperm says she ‘can be their hero’

An online influencer and chief executive officer of a cosmetics brand in China has intrigued her 9 million followers on Douyin by her decision to have four children using sperm she bought from the United States.

Ye Haiyang, 36, was born to a working-class family in northeastern China’s Jilin province. At the age of 22, she founded her Shenzhen-based makeup company, DC Expert.

After she built her company factory in 2015, the single, successful entrepreneur asked herself the question: “What’s the point of working hard and making money?”

Her answer was to have a child. But instead of going down the usual route of marrying and getting pregnant, Ye decided to buy “high-quality” sperm from a US bank.

She chose what she considered to be the best, because it belongs to a man with a mixed heritage who is healthy and physically strong as well as having a degree from an Ivy League college.

Ye said she spent 500,000 yuan (US$69,000) to give birth to her first daughter, Doris, in the US in 2017.