# Zsa Zsa Gabor to become a mother at 94 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398 "2011-04-14T19:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/1 "2011-04-14T19:23:00Z")
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband wants his 94-year-old wife to become a mother again using an egg donor, artificial insemination and a surrogate mother, Prince Frederic von Anhalt told CNN Thursday. “I’ve gone through the initial steps of donor matching and blood work and next week the donation process will begin,” von Anhalt said. Gabor’s only child, Francesca Hilton, described herself as shocked when told of the plan Thursday. # “That’s just weird,” Hilton said. Yeah, it is. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/2 "2011-04-14T19:36:54Z")
With an egg donor, artificial insemination and a surrogate mother, Zsa Zsa might not have to crack more than an eyelid, would she? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/3 "2011-04-14T19:40:11Z")
With an egg donor, artificial insemination and a surrogate mother, Queen Victoria could become a mother at the ripe old age of 190+ ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/4 "2011-04-14T19:43:19Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband wants his 94-year-old wife to become a mother again using an egg donor, artificial insemination and a surrogate mother, Prince Frederic von Anhalt told CNN Thursday. > > “I’ve gone through the initial steps of donor matching and blood work and next week the donation process will begin,” von Anhalt said. > … Translation: “I knocked up some young chick but I’m going to tell Zsa Zsa she’s the surrogate mother so hopefully she won’t cut me out of her will.” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/5 "2011-04-14T19:43:25Z")
This reminds me of a comment a friend made upon seeing a typical overly-photoshopped fashion advertisement: “Just because you _can_ do that, doesn’t mean that you _should_.” On the other hand, why not. We must remember that the product of the process will be a child, to be loved and cherished as other children should be. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/6 "2011-04-14T19:45:48Z")
I don’t think that counts really, as nothing of that child would be her. What’s the point of an additional egg donor if a surrogate mother is used? Don’t marry someone ready to kick the bucket and expect babies. Be honest and say the guy wants a biological child. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/7 "2011-04-14T19:49:31Z")
Wow. It’s like a human “grandfather’s axe.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/8 "2011-04-14T19:51:27Z")
The formerly lucid mind known as Prince. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/9 "2011-04-14T19:57:41Z")
All you folks that have her in the Death Pool are just cruel. How could you wish such a thing on someone’s mommy? If the baby is still in progress and both she and the prince die before the birth, does the baby still exist? It’s like a tree falling in the forest. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/10 "2011-04-14T20:01:50Z")
If a celebrity slaps a policemen but there’s no leg to hear it, does it still make a sound? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/11 "2011-04-14T20:05:44Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > If a celebrity slaps a policemen but there’s no leg to hear it, does it still make a sound? _shakes head_ Dude … that was just bad. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/12 "2011-04-14T20:15:37Z")
At her age, she probably welcomes the opportunity to change someone else’s diaper for a change. I have to go with Wile E’s premise that the prince knocked up his girlfriend and is looking for a cover story. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/13 "2011-04-14T20:31:05Z")
he seems a little obsessed with being a father again, IIRC he also claimed he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby girl. (remember that three ring circus after she died?). ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/14 "2011-04-14T20:32:51Z")
Even if a clinic takes his money (which he says they have), there’s no saying an egg donor will work w/ him, nor any guarantee of a surrogate willing to work w/ him. Both those ladies will know his situation even if they don’t know his name until they meet him. It isn’t as though the clinic has frozen unwanted eggs for sale. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/15 "2011-04-14T20:32:58Z")
Imagine, as a 4-year-old, your answer of “About a hundred!” to the question, “…and how old do you think mummy is?..” would not be met with hilarity. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/16 "2011-04-14T20:33:38Z")
What am I missing? She’s dead, right? Didn’t she die a few weeks back? Or was that just one of the legs? ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/17 "2011-04-14T20:39:00Z")
**Napier** , that was one of the legs. Named Elizabeth Taylor. I forget what she calls the other one. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/18 "2011-04-14T22:53:07Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > **Napier** , that was one of the legs. Named Elizabeth Taylor. I forget what she calls the other one. “Smith”, I think. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/19 "2011-04-15T00:47:29Z")
Cnn’s article mentions that Zsa Zsa probably can’t pass the competency test. Maybe a puppy wrapped in a blanket will work just as well? 😉 > [@](#): > > But it’s not as simple as that. Dr. Dan Shapiro of Reproductive Biologic Associates of Atlanta says von Anhalt and Gabor’s public desire to have a child would not be considered a legitimate reason to go through with this procedure, given the circumstances. Gabor has suffered significant health problems and would have to pass a psychological evaluation to become the child’s legal mother. > > In her condition, it’s questionable whether she can consent to the conception of the child Shapiro said. And without Gabor’s consent to be a legal parent, her husband cannot legally enter into a contract of this nature while married. [http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/relax-the-zsa-zsa-baby-thing-wont-happen/](http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/relax-the-zsa-zsa-baby-thing-wont-happen/) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398/20 "2011-04-15T02:53:21Z")
I’m reminded of a child custody case in which an infertile couple (who subsequently divorced) contracted the conception of a child with donor sperm, a donor egg (both supplied anonymously) and a surrogate mother. The judge ruled that the child was legally an orphan. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zsa-zsa-gabor-to-become-a-mother-at-94/578398.md?page=2)