Bernann McKinney, who paid over $50,000 to have her beloved pit bull Booger cloned by the South Korean biotech firm RNL Bio, now has 5 Booger Jr’s. She is also now the subject of controversy. Questions were being asked if McKinney was in fact Joyce McKinney, a former Hollywood beauty queen who was involved in a Mormon sex slave kidnapping over 30 years ago.
The young Joyce was convicted of wrongful imprisonment & spent 3 months in prison. The controversy arose when people thought they recognized McKinney from her younger, “wilder” days - in which she also posed nude for men’s magazines.
Side by side pictures show the uncanny resemblence. Although Bernann McKinney initially denied that it was her, she recently admitted to it.
The revelation about McKinney was not the first bizarre twist relating to South Korean cloning. Hwang Woo-suk, a scientist once revered as a national hero, became a global embarrassment after it was revealed in 2005 that he faked evidence to bolster claims of what would have been breakthrough research on cloning human stem cells.
