PRESS RELEASE: Bank on a Celebrity

Whether consciously or subconsciously, every woman thinks about having a baby. After all, it's our job as the human race to procriate and our job as the female species to be the holy vessel which brings screaming, pooping miracles of life into the world. Regardless of whether we want to or not, as females, it's kind of expected.So from day dot (or whichever age you were when you finally became 'a woman' - God bless it) we develop an awareness of our ticking maternal clock. For a small chunk of your life, you keep your fingers, toes and legs crossed praying the alarm bell won't go off, followed by a hefty chunk of time hoping for God's sake that it will. And if by then, you still haven't spawned a mini genetic copy of yourself, the ticking clock becomes even more obvious and the small window of opportunity you have left starts to get gradually smaller and smaller and smaller. Until the clock stops ticking all together.

Regardless of whether the desire for babies lies dormant in the back of the mind or whether it's a daily desperation, as women, we are constantly aware of pregnancy and the fear that the window of opportunity might someday slam in our face if we don't act accordingly. And if that time has crept up on you and you haven't locked yourself in a husband, pregnancy can seem like a distant, unachievable dream.

Unless of course, you take a trip to your friendly, neighbourhood sperm bank.

While it all may seem like an extreme option, sperm banks create happy families for singles and couples around the world. And now, as reported in Friday 16th's The Daily Telegraph, not only can you become impregnated, you can pick the sperm of a donor who is a celebrity look-a-like.

That's right girls - we've all dreamt of having Brad Pitt's baby and now we can... kinda.

California Cryobank have started a look-a-like service where donors are described as having remarkable resemblances to Hollywood hotties - Ben Affleck, Hugh Grant and even our own rugged rough-diamond, Russel Crowe. As donors must remain anonymous by American law, the bank staff decide which celebrity the donor looks most like and write up a description accordingly. The system is meant to allow prospective mothers to visualise what the father of their baby looks like.

For example, donar 11385 is said to be a dead-ringer for David Beckham and to be a "blonde haired dreamboat".

I'll order me one of those, thanks.

However, the 'celebrity baby bank' has been criticised by scientists as a form of stratifying beauty within society. However, I think if I was single, without any promising prospects and reaching 'a certain age' where the maternal clock was ticking loud and clear, having a mini George Clooney to keep me company in my old age wouldn't be such a bad thing.

Sure would keep the ladies in the retirement home entertained.