desperately wanted siblings. In 2014, at 35, the Indiana native’s wish came true when she took a 23andMe DNA test and discovered that she had at least seven half brothers and sisters living within a 25-mile radius of her.
But Ballard’s lifelong dream of having a big family quickly warped as her half-sibling matches ballooned. Over the next eight years, she found a staggering 94 (and counting) fair-haired brothers and sisters — and one man at the root of their sordid family tree.
They all shared a father, fertility doctor Donald Cline. “It’s disgusting,” said Ballard, now 43, in new Netflix documentary, “Our Father,” out May 11. “It’s almost like we’re like this perfect Aryan clan … Most of us have blond hair and blue eyes.”In the film, directed by Lucie Jourdan of “Taken at Birth” fame, Ballard and a handful of her siblings theorize that breeding an all-white brood in an effort to preserve the Caucasian race may have been Cline’s motivation for wrongfully impregnating hordes of his patients with his own sperm.“It’s disgusting to sit there and lay in bed at night, wondering if the person that created you is some racist bigot,” said Ballard of Cline, now 84.
He retired in 2009, but carried out his transgressions from his Indianapolis offices during the late 1970s and early ‘80s without repercussions.
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