Eggs From Young Asian Women In High Demand

It’s the hot new item in the fertility industry. More and more infertile Asian couples want eggs, but few young Asian women sign up to donate.

So how much are couples willing to pay? It turns out; the sky’s the limit for the right egg.

She’s barely 21 and Linh is in demand. “Basically they said, they chose me because they thought I was pretty, tall and a Berkeley graduate,” she said.

She has a 3.6 grade point average, she’s young, and she’s Asian, the ethnicity in demand.  She is also an egg donor. Two couples are expecting babies right now partly because of her.

Her parents did not know she’s an egg donor. It’s somewhat of a cultural taboo. “You’re giving up a part of yourself to another person that you pretty much don’t know to create a child.  I think the whole biological parental aspect of it would be very upsetting to most Asian parents,” she said.

Asian egg donors are rare. But having that perfect baby is every parent’s dream, a dream that has spawned an expensive...