AS she walked down the aisle in her local supermarket in March 2021, Natalie, 41, answered a call on her mobile. “You need to come home now,” said her partner Suzanne. “Don’t panic, but there’s something that you need to see.
” 6 Jonathan Jacob Meijer is being charged after breaking rules stating he could father no more than 25 children 6 Suzanne and Natalie reveal how they came to the sickening realisation they'd been dealing with a serial sperm donor When she walked through the door, Suzanne handed her a newspaper article about a sperm donor who had fathered 272 babies in the Netherlands, breaking guidelines that state that a donor can only father a maximum of 25 children across up to 12 families. The more Natalie read, the more she became consumed by a sickening suspicion that the serial donor, whose name wasn’t revealed, was the father of her son. “My mouth fell open,” remembers Natalie.
“I was so shocked.” “We had so many feelings,” adds Suzanne. “We trusted him.
We felt betrayed. We felt sad. We felt angry.
We just knew it was him, because the article was illustrated with a drawing – and it had a very strong resemblance.” But the 272 babies the report mentioned were just the tip of the iceberg. As recounted in new Netflix documentary The Man With 1000 Kids, Natalie’s sperm donor – Jonathan Jacob Meijer – had fathered many, many more.
Eleven years earlier, in 2010, Natalie – a teacher who lives in the Netherlands – and her former .
