You had no control over the face you were given, but parents in the next 20-to-40 years may have more of a say over how their children look, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Professor Henry Greely from Stanford University, who works in bioethics, says in that time frame women will be able to choose the embryo implanted into their wombs based on their preference for sex, intelligence, musical ability, or even disease risk.
A designer baby is specifically an embryo that is genetically engineered with selected traits before being implanted into a woman via IVF.
Currently pre-implantation genetic diagnosis routinely determines if embryos are at risk of certain diseases, but in the U.K., for example, designer babies are illegal.
Critics of designer babies argue the practice is unethical, while supporters say parents can already influence their child's tastes via lifestyle choices, and they therefore should have the right to influence their child's genes.