Which Hapa Gold Medalist Has a Crazier Cult?

Alysia Liu vs. Eileen Gu:

Which half-Chinese / half-white Olympic gold medalist, Alysia Liu or Eileen Gu, has the crazier back story?

As I mentioned recently in “The Eugenic Princess,” Alysia Liu, the delightful young lady who won the Olympic women’s figure-skating gold medal representing the U.S., is the eugenic product of Chinese political refugee Arthur Liu (a.k.a., Liu Junguo), buying human eggs for her and her four half-siblings from no doubt carefully-selected white egg donors and then having them gestated by surrogates mothers.

But that’s just the latest generation of the family story, which also involves a notorious Chinese cult. I’ll recount that later.

Skier Eileen Gu is also a child of mysterious white DNA. Her Stanford MBA mother is said to have given birth to her at age 40 in San Francisco. She was raised by her single mother in a very expensive house overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

The 5’-'9” and blondish Elaine’s genetic father is clearly white, but there is no record of who he might be (Tom Brady?), and the Gus aren’t talking about him. The Chinese media report that he is a Harvard man. (Eileen is said to have scored 1580 out of 1600 on the SAT.)

Gu chose to ski for China. The Chinese go nuts for Eileen’s combination of the Asian tenacity and white artistry and exotic beauty, so she is one of the highest compensated women athletes in the world.

Also, nobody will speak on the record about Gu’s citizenship status: China doesn’t allow dual citizenship, unlike the U.S. after the 1967 Afroyim v. Rusk Supreme Court decision that legalized dual Israeli-U.S. citizenship.

Was Eileen, like Alysa, conceived by IVF from a donor picked from a catalog, or the old-fashioned way? Did the older Ms. Gu interrupt her business career to carry Eileen to term at age 40, or did she hire a younger woman to be her surrogate?

This could be an interesting question for parents ambitious for their genetic children to win gold. Over the course of my lifetime, Olympic athletes have optimized post-birth nurture, but what about pre-birth nurture? Are you gestational-maxxing your future Olympian? Can your 40-year-old womb really provide your child with the optimal launching pad?

I am told that surrogates get paid high 5 figures to bear your child for you. I can imagine that right now in the San Francisco Bay Area, 115 pound women who just made partner at age 37 are considering offering low six figures to, say, a 24 year old Samoan mom, 5’9” and 170 pounds, with three kids of her own already, to bear child for her.

What do I think about surrogacy? I might be against it under more historically normal circumstances. But, with fertility rates crashing worldwide …. well, I’m in favor of people having babies. And surrogacy is one way people have more babies.

I’ve only known one woman who hired a surrogate. I won’t mention her name because I have a rule that I don’t divulge the names of people I meet in private life.

So I will just say she was an actress then in her laters-40s whose son played on my son’s baseball team. I’d first seen her on stage in Chicago where she’d been superb. And then we both moved to the San Fernando Valley.

Her reputation in Hollywood was that she wasn’t quite good enough looking to be a leading lady, so that she had to get by on her award-winning acting skills in supporting roles.

Personally, I thought she was spectacular-looking even by Hollywood Hills standards, but that just shows how extremely high leading lady standards are.

I like to point out how I’ve run into various stars. But I’ve seldom met in person the highest ranking leading ladies.

I can recall during Mass in 1977 at St. Francis de Sales turning around to shake hands with the blonde lady behind me, who turned out to be …

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