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4 Famous Gay Dads Who Used Donor Eggs to Grow Their Families

by MyEggBankin LGBTQ+June 19th, 2024

Many people dream of becoming parents, including LGBTQ+ couples and individuals. For gay men looking to grow their families, it can be inspiring to read the stories of other gay dads who have successfully had children via egg donation. To celebrate Pride Month, we want to highlight four famous gay dads who used donor eggs to build their dream families.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, famous for his starring role as Mitchell Pritchett in the sitcom Modern Family, and his husband, Justin Mikita, welcomed two children in 2020 and 2022 using donor eggs and a separate surrogate. Picking a donor was challenging for the couple. In an interview with fertility specialist Dr. Shahin Ghadir on his The Fertile Life Podcast, Ferguson remarked, “There was a moment where we were like, 'Why are we looking at white women? Why not another race?”

Ultimately, the couple decided to pick an egg donor culturally connected to them. “If we have a half-Asian child or half-Black child, that's something we can't relate to,” Ferguson said. “So we ended up going with a white egg donor because we didn't want that extra layer of something we couldn't help them with."

Ricky Martin

Singer Ricky Martin used a surrogate and a separate egg donor to conceive his three children. Speaking with Access Hollywood, Martin said, “I sat in front of the computer and I started searching. It definitely was a very beautiful journey.” When it came to picking the perfect egg donor, Martin remarked, “It's a vibe thing, you know. In this case, it was like, I feel something in her eyes and her smile. Then you read the profile and you read her letter, and where she goes to school and she's very beautiful. And she is smart as well.”

Perez Hilton

Media personality Perez Hilton welcomed three children over the years with different surrogates but the same anonymous egg donor. According to Perez, he chose his egg donor because she seemed nice. “I’m sure money was a motive for her,” he wrote in an article for HuffPost, “but I could tell she was a good and decent person ― something that everyone from the surrogacy agency to the fertility clinic echoed. That was important to me.”

Neil Patrick Harris

In a 2014 interview with Barbara Walters for ABC News, actor Neil Patrick Harris explained that he and his husband, David Burtka, used an egg donor and a surrogate to become parents. "We inserted one of my sperm and one of David's sperm into two eggs, with the hope that they would both take, just because we both wanted to be dads biologically, and both took, miraculously," Harris told Walters. He has no interest in learning which of his twins is biologically his and which is Burtkas. "It's so funny. I see myself in each of them at different times," Harris said.

Start Your Egg Donation Journey Today

If you’re an aspiring LGBTQ+ parent interested in pursuing egg donation to grow your family, you’re in great company! At My Egg Bank, our mission is to help people become parents, and we’re proud to be the largest and most diverse donor egg bank network in North America. For more information about LGBTQ+ family building, contact us today.

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