Sperminator’s future mamas
Ladies from across the US clamor for Ari Nagel’s babies
Since serial sperm donor Ari Nagel revealed to The Post earlier this month that he has sired 22 kids with 18 women, mama wannabes — more than 100 of them, according to Nagel — across the country have deluged the Brooklynite’s Facebook inbox with paternity pleas.
Nagel, who says he’s never denied a request, is weeding through the ladies. He has a standard reply at the ready: “I cut and paste, ‘I’ll do my best. I’ll help you any way I can.’ ”
The broody women The Post spoke to — who range from single to divorced to being in a committed relationship, and who include lesbians and heterosexuals — have a variety of reasons for desperately seeking the sperminator.
“He’s a blessing because he’s doing the work for free,” says Sheila Killian, a 47-yearold custodial worker from Charlotte, NC, whose graphic-designer wife, Sukema, 40, hopes to get pregnant by Nagel. “We work paycheck to paycheck — we don’t havee money for a sperm bank.”
Patrice Anthony, a 31-yearold nurse’s aide from New Orleans, says she has scared off men with her baby lust.
“Guys can run away if they hear you want a baby,” Anthony says. “He’s willing to do it for free. I think it’s amazing.”
She’s not the only scorned woman hoping Nagel is her knight in shining armor. Linda, a nurse in Massachusetts who declined to give her last name for professional reasons, was recently dumped by her beau of 10 years and just found out he’s expecting a child with someone else.
“I thought we’d have kids together,” the 36year-old says of her ex. Instead, she friend-requested Nagel, 40, on Facebook and they started chatting. “He’s good-looking.”
Some ladies are already planning ahead. When Shakayla Simmons, a 24-year-old nurse from Tallahassee, Fla., gets married to her fiancée, Shomari Ling, in July, she doesn’t want wedding presents; she wants baby gifts, instead.
“I’m ready whenever [Nagel] is,” says Sim- mons, who grew up with 10 siblings. “I want to be pregnant before or right after the wedding.”
She and Ling, a 24-year-old female transit worker, looked into adoption, but weren’t prepared to wait years for a child. And, Simmons says, anonymous sperm donors aren’t an option.
“I don’t want it to be someone I don’t know,” she said. “[Nagel] has a big heart, he’s amazing. He makes people’s dreams come true.”
Though she has yet to meet Nagel, Simmons has no qualms about the notoriety of the man comedian Chris Hardwick recently called “Johnny Peopleseed.” She says, “I’m OK with [Nagel’s newfound fame]. I’m OK with people knowing who my child’s father is, because I know he’s a great man.”
Blandine Rodney, a 43-yearold Brooklyn nurse who wants a child with Nagel, a college math professor, agrees.
“He’s a genius,” she said. “I’d be proud to have my child say Ari is his father.”
The divorcée, like all of the women The Post spoke to, is black. Several of Nagel’s 22 children have black mothers. It was revealed last week that he is married to one of these women and living with her, raising their three kids.
“Someone said [to me] he’s trying to whitewash the black community,” Rodney said. “It’s not whitewashing! More white men should give sperm to women who need it.”
At least one current baby-mama is not thrilled with Nagel’s surge in papa popularity. Crystal, a Connecticut mom who has two sons by him, ages 6 and 7, says: “To know my kids have so many siblings out there, it’s not something I would have wanted.”
As for Nagel’s routine of doling out his sperm from public restrooms at Target and Starbucks, the Killians are all for it.
“[Sukema’s] my wife. I took a vow to forsake others,” says Sheila. “I can’t share her with him.”
But Jennifer Davis, a 41-year-old social worker from Delaware, has other ideas.
“Maybe the old-fashioned way could be good for both of us,” she said. “I haven’t been in a relationship in a while.”
He’s handsome, he’s a genius. I’d be proud to have my child say Ari [Nagel] is his father. — Blandine Rodney