Serial sperm donor featured in 'The Man With 1000 Kids' shares the real amount of children he's had

A 'serial' sperm donor that's nan taxable of a caller Netflix documentary is claiming nan movie sewage his number of offspring wrong.

Released Wednesday, 'The Man With 1000 Kids' surrounds 42-year-old Jonathan Meijer, a Dutch nationalist pinch a bizarre penchant for spreading his seed.

On Monday, Meijer responded to nan production's suggestive title - saying he's fathered 550 children, not 1,000, arsenic nan title indicates.

The film, bolstered by interviews pinch families misled by nan Dutchman, claims he lied astir nan number of offspring he had already produced. In an email, he claimed he did show families nan nonstop number of kids, but that he later chose to extremity giving retired nan existent estimate. 

Nonbinding aesculapian guidelines successful nan Netherlands enforce a headdress of 25 children per donor, while prohibiting group from donating astatine much than 1 session - rules Meijer maintains he did not break.

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'Technically I did not lie,' Meijer wrote to NBC News. 

'I followed nan guidelines of each ample commercialized world sperm slope that does not pass nan recipients astir nan magnitude of offspring 1 philanthropist will produce.

'I was doing a overmuch amended point - I gave nan parents an estimated number,' he continued. 

'[T]his was amended and much info than they would ever get astatine immoderate clinic.'

Activist Eve Wile, meanwhile, accuses Meijer of enabling fertility fraud - the nonaccomplishment to get nan due consent from a diligent earlier artificial fertilization via a donor's sperm.

That's partially because of nan truth that nan tally did not see Meijer's backstage donations done websites for illustration Facebook, aft becoming connected connected websites for illustration Desire for a Child, 1 of a increasing number of online sperm markets that lucifer donor candidates straight pinch imaginable recipients.

Vanessa van Ewijk, a Netherlands carpenter, was 1 of respective women who claims to person fallen unfortunate to this unusual stratagem.

In 2015, she considered conceiving done a fertility clinic, but nan costs was excessively much. 

Instead, she recovered Meijer connected nan website, and was instantly struck by nan vlogger's well-spoken demeanor and bully looks, she said.

'I said to him connected nan telephone and he seemed gentle and benignant and well-behaved,' she recalled to nan New York Times anterior to nan documentary's release. 

'He liked music, and he talked astir his thoughts connected life. He didn't travel connected beardown successful immoderate sense. He seemed for illustration nan boy adjacent door.'

A period later, aft gathering Meijer astatine a section train station, he provided her pinch his sperm, and successful return, she forked complete 165 euros - astir $200 cash. A fewer much months, and she gave commencement to her first kid - Meijer's, eighth, truthful he said.

Years later, successful 2017, nan brace reconnected again, erstwhile van Ewijk decided to person a second.

Again, she paid for Meijer's sperm - but this time, she was much alert of immoderate actions by Meijer nan she says whitethorn person been unethical.

She learned from a female pinch whom she connected connected Facebook that Meijer besides donated to her, and was besides nether investigation by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.

The probe recovered he fathered much than 100 children successful nan Netherlands done galore fertility clinics, a tally that did not see backstage donations for illustration nan ones to van Ewijk - who went done pinch it nan 2nd clip because she wanted her kids to beryllium afloat siblings - and nan different woman, a azygous mom. 

Enraged, van Ewijk confronted Meijer, who went connected to admit he had produced astatine slightest 175 children - earlier conceding location mightiness beryllium more, but he had mislaid count. This was successful 2017.

'He said, "I’m conscionable helping women make their biggest wish travel true,"' van Ewijk remembered.

'I said: "You’re not helping anymore! How do I show my kids that they could perchance person 300 siblings?"'

Angered by nan anticipation of early incest arsenic nan kids turn up, she said she whitethorn not person known nan half of it - arsenic a Dutch court successful 2023 ordered Meijer to halt donating sperm to alleviate nan heightened consequence of hereditary defects.

The ruling came six years aft nan Dutch Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology banned him from donating sperm successful nan Netherlands successful 2017 - a move that did not extremity Meijer from going elsewhere pinch his antics.

He continued to donate to recipients successful different countries including to nan Danish sperm slope Cryos, which operates internationally.

He besides continued to connection his services done websites and societal media, arsenic he now claims he stopped offloading his sperm backmost successful 2019.

In nan show, a bid of experts and parents impeach him to lying to families astir nan number of children he's produced, pinch Wiley and others estimating nan existent number could beryllium successful nan thousands. 

This, of course, depends connected really galore straws of nan man's sperm were successfully utilized to conceive - a number that remains uncertain owed to nan far-reaching quality of nan Dutchman's donations.

'What happens psychologically to these children that person 700, 800, 900 brothers and sisters?' Kate, an Australian mother who recovered Meijer done Cryos, says successful nan show.

'How are they psychologically going to beryllium capable to woody pinch this information?'

In a video posted to his 15,000 YouTube subscribers past week, Meijer responded to those accusations, arsenic good nan ones aired by respective different women including van Ewijk and others interviewed for nan production.

“‘What benignant of man would do that?’” Meijer says successful nan video, mimicking nan statement featured successful nan documentary’s trailer.

 'Well, it has to beryllium a man that’s consenting to thief others, and a man that sees that he can, pinch his life, do thing much than conscionable unrecorded for himself, activity for himself, and he wants to beryllium useful to others. 

'That’s nan benignant of man that does it, and I’m not an exception.”

He went connected to contradict that he had developed an addiction to nan enactment - taking discourtesy to show’s characterization of him arsenic a 'serial donor.'

'I dislike nan connection serial, because each philanthropist is simply a serial [donor],' he explained. 

'It’s conscionable like, a philanthropist helps aggregate families. That’s rather common; it’s rather normal.

'So this is really already adding this utmost antagonistic facet successful nan documentary, for illustration "serial" — serial killer, serial donor.'

Unlike those made astatine facilities, donations made by backstage arrangements via nan net are wholly unregulated.

Moreover, nan Donorkind Foundation, a Dutch defense group representing donor-conceived children and their parents, claims Meijer utilized aliases erstwhile advertizing his services connected nan internet, to circumvent nationalist quotas - which is illegal

Meijer - who reportedly refused to return portion successful nan movie aliases remark connected immoderate of nan allegations against him - continues to contradict this.

He told NBC News: '[I did] not want to cooperate IN ANY WAY pinch Netflix and it is their work to not usage lies and slander.'