Cher is helping Chaz choose a sperm donor for fiancee

**marie** · August 14th, 2009, 11:14 AM

Cher is helping Chaz choose a sperm donor for fiancee

Chaz Bono, the once daughter of Cher and Sonny Bono, is transitioning from female to male and has chosen to go public with his decision. Gay and transgender rights advocates say that Chaz is about to become the most famous famous of the transgender community in the US. Chaz is engaged to his longterm girlfriend, Jennifer Elia, and the two are said to be planning for a baby. Chaz and Jennifer are looking for a sperm donor to help them start a family, and grandmother-in-training Cher, 63, is reportedly trying to get them to chose someone they know instead of using an anonymous donor. She’s even compiled a file of prospects. (I am trying so hard not to make a David Crosby joke, but I just couldn’t let this pass without at least mentioning him.)

Cher is looking for a baby daddy for her daughter-turned-son Chaz! That’s the latest twist in the unconventional world of the 63 year-old music legend and Chaz, formerly named Chastity. Chaz is having a sex change from female to male, and hopes to marry his female live-in lover and start a family.
The couple needs a sperm donor - and Cher is being supportive by helping them find the right man, says a family friend.
“After Chaz told his mother about getting married and planning for a baby, Cher offered to help,” a longtime family friend told The Enquirer.
Chaz intends to marry fiancee Jennifer Elia by the end of the year.
As the Enquirer has reported, 40-year-old Chaz is having stomach stapling surgery to knock off 75 pounds before the gender reassignment is completed.
Meanwhile, Cher has thrown herself into the donor screening process.
“Cher doesn’t care if the baby is a boy or a girl,” the source said. “But she’s insisting on a donor with intelligence, creativity and good looks.
“At first Chaz and Jennifer wanted an anonymous donor. They both thought it would be better not to know who the father was. But now they are open to someone they know.
“So Cher is putting together a file of prospects, and as you can imagine, they’re all handsome and brilliant. Chaz and Jen are sticking to strict criteria, but ultimately, all three of them want a healthy baby.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, August 24, 2009]
The article doesn’t outright state it, but it’s assumed that Jennifer will carry the baby. Congratulations to Chaz and Jennifer if this is true, and it sounds kind of sweet that Cher is taking over to find the right guy to be the biological father. I bet she’s hoping to plan their wedding too!
Chaz and Jennifer look so happy in photos and as JayBird once wrote, I also get the vibe that Chaz is a good person who is just trying to live authentically. By just being himself, he’s educating so many of us on what it means to be a transgender person.

**scooter** · August 14th, 2009, 12:53 PM

Why not have brother Elijah provide the dna. He's genetically as close to Chaz as they come.

**McJag** · August 14th, 2009, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by scooter

Why not have brother Elijah provide the dna. He's genetically as close to Chaz as they come.

That gene pool doesn't need reproducing!

**MsChiff** · August 14th, 2009, 01:16 PM

Aw man, every time I see a picture of him he seems to be larger (I feel weird typing him/he).

**rollo** · August 14th, 2009, 01:20 PM

I know. Good luck to them and all that but the weight issue is not healthy to run around after a baby.

**cheray** · August 14th, 2009, 02:22 PM

The trauma that she is putting on her body. Stomach stapling or hopefully just lapbanding for the weight problem, and all the drugs and ops to be a male. I feel the pain already. But thats what people do when they want something badly enough I guess.

**Laurent** · August 14th, 2009, 02:42 PM

As the Enquirer has reported, 40-year-old Chaz is having stomach stapling surgery to knock off 75 pounds before the gender reassignment is completed.

I guess she's down to her last resort with the weight thing, then - seems like she's always had a serious struggle where that's concerned. Better luck to her with whatever she needs to do to get a hold on it, because she appears to be in dangerous territory.

**BlameItOnVanity** · August 14th, 2009, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by cheray

The trauma that she is putting on her body. Stomach stapling or hopefully just lapbanding for the weight problem, and all the drugs and ops to be a male. I feel the pain already. But thats what people do when they want something badly enough I guess.

both together sounds really painfull..i hope chaz finds it worth it