How Jill Zarin’s Daughter Found Out Her Father Was a Sperm Donor

“You kind of went through a book,” said the Bravo star. “They don’t give you their name, but they give you their race. They give you their religion, they give you their physical traits, education and any medical issues. And you kind of pick out of a book. That’s what it was.”

She said she picked donor No. 62 because Steven was born in 1962, and eventually ripped up and burned the donor’s information to hide it from Ally.

“It was relief,” Jill said of Ally finding out. “And I was more afraid of Allyson’s reaction. My feelings were a mirror of her. So, if she became hysterical, then I was going to be hysterical. If she took it like she did, then I was okay.”

As for how Ally took the news? “It just really bonded us together,” she said, “because now the secret was out there in the open and we can just come together as a family and we’re stronger after.”