Here are photos of Chrissy Teigen and John Legend at a book signing at Barnes & Noble yesterday. Chrissy has a new recipe book called Cravings: Recipes For All The Food You Want To Eat. I’m not really down with Chrissy – I usually ignore her, mostly because I think she manufactures controversy to get attention, and I really think she needs to stop picking fights with entertainment journalists because she just got an Us Weekly journo fired this week over literally nothing but a headline that he didn’t choose. Anyway, Chrissy is pregnant. She and John Legend had some fertility issues so they went through IVF. They’re expecting a baby girl. And that’s what they wanted – they selected the gender of their embryo so that they would get a daughter.
“I’ve made this decision,” Chrissy Teigen tells PEOPLE exclusively while chatting about her book Cravings in this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. “Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo. I picked her and was like, ‘Let’s put in the girl.’ I think I was most excited and allured by the fact that John would be the best father to a little girl. That excited me. It excited me to see … just the thought of seeing him with a little girl. I think he deserves a little girl. I think he deserves that bond. A boy will come along. We’ll get there too, so it’s not like we really have to pick. But he definitely is very lucky to have a little girl. And this girl is going to be so completely lucky to have John as her papa — it’s crazy!”
We talked about gender selection with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West too – when they did IVF last year, Kim said they only implanted boy embryos. I talked then about how some medical ethicists see it as a slippery-slope argument to genetically selected other parts of your embryos, but I sort of think… I don’t know, it’s not a big deal to select the gender? That being said, Chrissy makes it sound like she made the decision herself and John didn’t have much of a say either way. Oh, and since Chrissy loves to manufacture controversy endlessly, she’s picking fights with people on Twitter about the whole gender-selection thing. How is it that Kim Kardashian handled this with so much more grace?
Chrissy also told People that she and John are practicing parenting with their dog Putty (a bulldog). Apparently, John Legend doesn’t go for baby talk even when he’s talking to Putty. He’s all for speaking in full sentences with Putty. Which is cute. I talk to my dog like he’s human too (sprinkled in with some “who’s a big puppy? Who’s a big dawg?”).
Photos courtesy of WENN.
This is what her career is now, staying relevant by oversharing and getting into fights on social media. When the baby arrives she’ll be using her to troll for criticism every damn day. It’s sad really, she’s got enough going on without resorting to that kind of thing, but she clearly needs constant attention.
agreed.
This. You don’t want the commentary, then shut the heck up. It’s simple, really.
You nailed it Kate. Sounds like she’s growing thirstier every day. That depth of detail about your conception is a private family matter. It’s not an “issue to bring awareness to” which is the standard excuse for celebrity overshare. This woman needs to exercise a little class for the rest of her pregnancy.
I don’t understand why she needed to discus this with People mag. It’s a personal thing and doesn’t need to be thrown out there for public dissection.
I totally agree. I think she trolls for attention picking fights and is a pro. I’ve never cared for her ever since she made some callous comments about Quivenzhane Wallis when the Onion called that girl an awful name. I’ve never forgotten that. And Chrissy has made other comments which in total made me dismiss her.
I find this gender selection so creepy.
I’m all for IVF – but choosing the gender seems like you’re f.ucking with nature to me =/
to be fair we constantly f* with nature. driving and flying arent exactly fine to the planet and animals nor are electronics or our food. we also dont let nature do her work when we have an illness, we take medicine and dont just die. so while all of that isnt good thats not the point.
they are determining what their child should be like even before it was born. you cant just assign a gender, thats like middle ages crap.
Agree 100. These women are playing God by choosing the gender of their child. Kim and Chrissy write their diaries on social media and are popular and emulated by the weaker among us. These two have a competition going on and it’s a sad reflection on our society.
And how lovely for her future son to know that they specifically wanted a girl first.
I think the whole ‘playing God’ thing only applies if you actually believe in any kind of God. Maybe they believe in science?
@Nancy
It was just as gross when Joe Francis proudly admitted to selecting twin female embryos to parent.
@D: The Kardashians claim to be devout Christians, but I’m certain questions of gender selection is only a science project for Kim to get the outcome she has become so used to achieving,……that is her own way.
D – the two are not mutually exclusive. God and science that is.
Liv – I agree. She really needs to learn the art of not over sharing everything.
I find it very creepy too. And gross.
Would it be ‘f’ing’ with nature to only select embryos for implantation which didn’t have genetic illnesses like Huntingdon’s or cystic fibrosis, to avoid giving birth to a child which will then develop those diseases? Genuine question.
Wow. Good question. Beyond the self indulgence of gender selection…a pandora s box.
I think if it’s done for the health of the child then it is fine. To do it solely for gender preference seems wrong to me. Just my$0.02.
They do actually screen embryos for genetic illness / irregularities. This is because IVF is so costly and time-consuming and many foetuses with genetic deformities self-abort.
I agree it could be a slippery slope using gender selection but IVF is very difficult physically and emotionally, no matter how much money you have. So I can see why you might want to choose your gender.
Agreed. And to be honest, I didn’t know I wanted girls until I had them. I thought I could only do boys because of the way I was raised, but I have these perfect girls that I’m in love with now. I am so glad I didn’t have a say-so, because I would’ve missed out on so much. (I do have a boy, too, so have the best of both worlds!)
Selecting the gender is so much of an issue in the western world, where there’s no real difference between having a male or female child. It’s usually a matter of preference. Chrissy and John wanted a daughter, the Kardashian-Wests wanted a son – it was a personal choice. Some will opt for male, some will opt for female and it will mostly balance out.
But in societies such as China and India where there are already massive gender imbalances due to parents choosing to abort female fetuses because a male child is considered more desirable, then this is just going to add to the problem and create huge social problems in those countries that will last for generations.
that was my first thought. In countries where women are not valued this is such a bad idea. For rich spoiled celebrities let them eat cake.
China is already there with the bachelor and “bare branches” villages. It’s only going to get worse.
If I needed IVF to conceive, and I had a stable relationship with Dad & no issues with money, I would find not implanting more than one viable embryo a very, very, difficult choice. Especially when one ultimately wants many children. I’d feel very torn and distressed- but I had twins, so retrospectively, it’s probably easy for me to feel this way, as opposed to a first- time mom.
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There is no slippery slope. We are already there. I don’t agree with procedures like IVF in the first place, let alone gender selection. It is wrong and selfish and self serving. Just look at the situation in California with the 50 year old postal worker and the surrogate. Creating life should be left to nature. Sorry, not sorry. Also, you CANNOT compare creating life to using modern medicine to treat an ailment. It isn’t the same at all.
I’ll be honest, I’m not a fan of gender selection. I realize we don’t technically live in a culture where there’s a gender bias, but knowing that there are places where female children are devalued, it just makes me really uncomfortable.
Me too. At least she picked a girl, though. Elsewhere it’d be a boy every time. And some of those places are suffering population crises because of it. (I see you, Japan.)
-TheRealPinky
Now this makes me think she was posting the night nurse thing to rile people up and get attention. She’s trolling the sanctimommies. Next up: an “inappropriate” baby carrier or crying it out at 3 weeks.
If you think she’s trolling the “Sanctimommies” then that makes me like her a little bit more…
What the what. what if their “daughter” wants to be a boy?
You bring a good point. I understand the need for gender selection for health reasons but beyond that, I don’t really agree.
@Esther
Even more than that. Nature works due to diversity, people rage against anything different. If people can purposely eradicate diversity, history shows us they will.
I just worry that before we know it, we’ll hit Brave New World territory.
Soon people will be able to pick features (as I’ve written below certain features are FAR more valued than others. Yes even amongst the ‘enlighted’) We will be manipulating nature quite radically, and no one knows the consequences of meddling that much.
Look at all the comments saying it’s cool. I’ve been studying this issue at length, but reading comments on a site like this make me despair. I have very little hope we will be able to rein this in. Those who think it will stop here are fools; those who rationalize their apathy and selfishness are worse.
Exactly, Esther! They can pick the sex of their child in the most basic chromosomal sense, not the gender.
This was my exact first thought, Esther.
I have to wonder why they chose a girl, and precisely what they imagining parenting a girl will involve? Choosing their child’s sex suggests that they are already concocting preconceived ideas about what that child will be like. Meanwhile, the truth is that parenting is full of surprises, you never know what type of person your child will be! I think it’s better to walk into that with your eyes wide open and be open to the challenges of letting your child be their own person, than to picture them in advance carrying out some kind of specific role that you expect them to fulfill.
That’s a really good question, actually.
Yes it is def best to allow for every tiny possibility un life.
On gender selection, I think context is very important. If this kind of technology was widely available in societies where female embryos would be systematically passed over in favour of male embryos because of cultural reasons (see China or India), then I’d have a problem with it as it would be used to perpetuate narratives which overwhelmingly disadvantage women and girls. But here, I’m less convinced that two pampered celebrities picking the sex of their baby is a big deal. You then risk, however, entering a narrative in which it’s only okay if privileged people do it …
Abortion serves the same purpose in cultures where embryonic sex selection is not as widely used/available.
I have mixed feelings about gender selection. I feel like when you have a disease in your family that is gender specific and likely to be passed on to your children, it’s a bit of a different scenario. But when it comes to picking just because you prefer one over the other – if I was doing IVF I don’t think I would want to choose because – what if it doesn’t result in a birth? It’s even more heartbreak to set yourself up for when you’ve picked the gender, picked the name, and all of that. It’s heart breaking enough to begin with, but I feel like you’ve made it almost more real somehow if you’re choosing the sex.
Regarding Chrissy though – I still haven’t mad my mind up on her. She always seems so absolutely baffled at the criticism she gets. I haven’t decided if it’s because she’s genuinely not that bright and doesn’t realize how people are going to find issue in the things she tweets, or if she’s just so absolutely narcissistic that she thinks she could never possibly be misinformed or wrong about anything.
It would be nice if she just took some time off Social Media to enjoy the pregnancy that she and her husband worked so hard to have. She is to vested in what strangers behind an electronic device have to say about her life. Does it matter what they think? no. Just enjoy the time waiting for your miracle.
Yeah – this. It’s a different view in North America – because we don’t have quite the same kind of history as other nations. But look at all of the testing and medical torture and selective breeding that happened under the Nazi hands – look at the one child policy in China where so many daughters were unwanted.
ETA: The comment I replied to was deleted. But I feel like this is still an important thing to think of when thinking about how slippery a slope it is with gender selecting.
my first instinct is to think if GATTACA and say no! selecting is going to end up bad for everyone/society/the planet/the human race in terms of imbalance and messing with what nature has taken care of just fine (in terms of ‘randomly’ giving parents girls or boys).
But I’ve never tried and had trouble having kids and had someone ask me ‘girl or boy, that’s a choice you can make right now’ with IVF so…
Is it weird that they look so much alike to me???
The Journalist got himself fired.
He shouldn’t have engaged with Christy. Anyone with half a brain knows any opinions on social media eventually lead back to your job.
How many people make racist statements then get fired.
Wait what? That a VERY different situation.
What did he say? Because all of the articles reporting the situation mention them going back and forth and him saying he doesn’t write the headlines, just the articles. I see nothing about a racist comment, but if that’s the case, then I feel no sympathy for him.
Creepy.
But it’s where we are headed with Tiegn’s ‘bravery’ and ‘journey’ paving the way I’m sure.
Reminds me of this session I saw on Oprah many years back and a GP straight up said how many people would actively select their children to have blonde hair and blue blue eyes above ALL ELSE no matter what the parents’ actual colouring.
But can’t cause society frowns on that. Well currently anyway.
Clicked on this story to ask a genuine question. Who the hell is this woman??
I know John Legend but who is she? Model? Reality star? I continue to find the pimping out of motherhood to stay relevant absolutely gross so I’d love to know if there is any real reason she is famous.
She actually seldom talks about her pregnancy, she’s a model, tv host, has a cookbook etc. she’s a celebrity and JL’s wife. Definitely doesn’t fall on the category of pimping out motherhood like other celebs IMO.
@Mimz
Tiegen has been pimping her whole association with John Legend from day one (she was mainly a catalog model who got some print work and no runway work before him) To her credit she has somewhat admitted this and whilst I dont doubt that she cares for John , I wouldn’t be surprised if fame/career wasn’t one of the major motivations why she got with him in the first place (Tyra Banks and her kinda alluded to this when they were discussing some tips the then struggling Tiegen got years ago from Tyra about how to advance her career
“she seldom talks about her pregnancy”
uhh, what?? That’s literally all I’ve ever read or heard this woman talk about…I know her no other way.
She’s a model.
What confused me when I read this on DM yesterday is this: Did she only have one embryo implanted? I thought they implanted more than one.
IVF is no joke. It can be heartbreaking to get through and if your doctor tells you- ‘hey this is looking good, we have some wonderful embryos, you got through the first round of this, there is hope, now which one should we put in first? ‘ I don’t think anyone should be shamed for picking. Some may say ‘I don’t care, whatever..’ but you know what? People sometimes do care. And sometimes they think they’ve got one shot. I think Chrissy genuinely is planning on using as many of her embryos as she can, so she probably will have a boy eventually. Gender picking in India or China for cultural or status or financial reasons is a horrible truth. But I am not going to shame an IVF couple who have genuinely tried to get pregnant for several years – in a society and an income bracket where this is not as much an issue as in a 3rd world country.
I think they’ll be awesome parents.
Thank you I wholeheartedly agree with you. It’s not like they deliberately skipped the “natural order of things” and went “shopping” for a little baby girl.
They had several embryos boys and girls and were faced with a question/decision. If I were in that situation I can’t say for sure that I’d say “Oh I don’t care put anything in there”. I’d probably pick. And It would probably be a girl.
Thank you, TheOtherViv!! I completely agree with you!
ITA 100% with you guys. I was starting to feel alone around here so I’m glad I found y’all. 😉
I don’t see anything wrong with them choosing their baby’s gender.
It’s okay for them to be able to choose this thing vs that thing but not okay for them to choose the gender? Okay.
Agree 100%. Saying what I wanted to say just way better.
I also want to add that I don’t really see the difference in picking your gender with IVF and wishing/praying for a certain gender with regular conception and then having gender disappointment. We’re human. We want certain things. Especially in this case where they’ve tried for so long. It wasn’t done with malice intent.
Well said! As someone that went through five years of fertility treatments-13 IUI’s & 3 IVF’s- and then finally conceived through embryo donation, this is a very personal topic for me. People who have never been through it have no clue of the emotional rollercoaster, it can be pure hell! If someone went through IVF specifically for gender selection, then yes I can absolutely understand how that could be perceived as “wrong”. But choosing the sex of an embryo for transfer is completely different. I absolutely applaud her for being so open about such a personal topic, it may give hope to someone out there struggling with infertility.
The thing is, we don’t know what what the cause of the infertility. Was it a genetic condition that could be pass on? And there are genetic conditions (like Microdeletion of Chromosome Y) that can only affect males. Maybe they had a valid reason to pick a girl.
Maybe they had to do PGS/PGD (tested if the embryo were genetically normal) and they normally can reveal the sex during PGS/PGD, specially if there is a condition that can affect female or male.
So, no, it’s not necessary creepy.
It’s creepy when PGS/PGD is use to only pick boys in certain cultures.
Over here in Canada, it’s illegal to pick the sex of an embryo, except if there is a valid genetic cause.
IVF is not a walk in the park. And you only get it if you went through all that heartbreak.
pretty sure if there was a medical reason this budget Kardashian would be telling the entire world about it
Agreed. This feels vain
You never deal with infertility, did you?
I’m meh on the gender selection front, honestly if you’ve gotten to the point of IVF there’s already been a lot of testing and information being released to the potential parents. This isn’t a surprise in any way, shape, or form.
I also think this frankly will help in a few cultures. It’s unfortunate but there is a chicken and egg situation. Can we magically transform those cultures to suddenly love women significantly in the next 10, 20 or 50 years that those women grow up places where they’re not at major risk of rape and abuse? Are we saving babies from being abandoned to starve or die in the streets because of those same issues and is it better to handle it on a cellular level? Do women then only become more antagonized but then are they already antagonized because again even without this option they’re just not valued?
I don’t know. I try to take a very realistic matter-of-fact approach to these situations because romanticizing or not addressing them is why we have the constant battle against abortion in this country.
Or are we making it worse for the women already there, being a minority among aggressive makes looking for a sexual outlet?
Excellent question. I think it’s gross to say women are being “saved” by never being born. Wouldn’t the better thing to do is fight the misogyny in those countries?
@Sloaney
All things I wonder, but as others have said you already have individuals trying for a child over and over to the point of having 5 kids just to get a boy/girl. You have cultures where women are raped and horrifically slaughtered despite world wide condemnation and protest. Can we fix this in such a way that those women aren’t such as in China abandoned as an infant to die because they were born with the wrong sex organ? Because as China is horrifically finding out the process of unringing a bell is a daunting task and when people grow up in a culture that doesn’t value women they don’t just change overnight or even within a decade.
Greyson-
I honestly can’t think of a place on this planet where misogyny isn’t being fought. It’s how well that fight is going that leads us to this point. I do believe a child is saved if things are handled in a doctor’s office rather than an alley, so to speak.
I have mixed feelings about gender selection though on the other hand, it also creeps me out when some women keep getting pregnant only because they have failed to produce a male heir to the throne.
Right? That also creeps me out when people are having the 4th of 5th child trying for a different gender… And not only because “they love Kids so much”.
If I were in the situation and it was somewhat indifferent to me to have either boy or girl, but my SO was really, REALLY hoping for a girl and I had the choice, I think I would make it. It came to that, and it’s cool, no drama, IMO.
So picking the sex is ok, but people having children they love isn’t?
I don’t think this is creepy at all.
She wanted a girl and had three financial means to make it happen, society as a whole doesn’t value women–I can’t knock her for this.
Now, aborting fetus based on its gender would be repulsive, unfortunately it’s a sad reality.
Why would aborting the fetus based on its gender be repulsive ,but not picking and choosing the gender of the fetus? Unless you’re against all abortion?
I did enjoy quite a few of the responses she gave to people criticizing her too, especially the one where someone was ridiculously rude and she responded back ‘natural or IVF, my daughter will never speak to anyone like you have’.
That was an amazing clapback.
I really don’t see the big deal or why people are shaming her over it, or the night nurse thing. I wanted a daughter because my mother has been in and out of my life since I was a baby and I craved that mother/daughter relationship my entire life, I wanted to create what I’ve been lacking, and I was able to do that. I would have loved a son just as much but I couldn’t help the ache in my heart that longed for a daughter.
I also don’t see how it’s “playing god” any more than Regular IVF, if that were true God made you unable to have children right so why do IVF? What about choosing to fight cancer with chemo instead of thinking it’s gods will for you to die of cancer. Stop with that mess, you can’t pick and choose like that.
Man I’m so happy I don’t believe in God. Really simplifies things 😉
It really does😄 I’m on the fence about what I believe in, anything is possible and none of us know for sure, and no shade to those who respectfully believe in God, but when I look at this vast universe we live in and think of all the possibilities out there my gut tells me this is all science. My only hope is that we get to find out what it’s all about when we die, if not we’ll just cease to exist and that would be fine too😉
Oh I agree completely. I wasn’t trying to shade believers at all–apologies if it came across like that.
My personal belief is what you said: that when we die we just seize to exist—and I find that completely and utterly terrifying on every level. So yeah, I 100% get why people believe in Heaven–it seems like the better alternative to me 😉
Kitten, this is becoming a big issue for me! The older I get, the less God makes sense. Now, the idea of God makes great sense. Why not want to believe in something so great and healing?! I still call myself a believer, because…well I am! But I guess I would call myself a mordern Christian? LOL I have morals and beliefs. Not all of them line up with a specific church. I am more spiritual. I believe in putting things out in the world, and that energy is what you attract and get back. It would be a lot easier if I didn’t believe, but I do.
Oh no you didn’t come off that way at all! I was just throwing it in there in case other readers got offended😀
Love her & they make such a cute couple. Watch her on lip sync battle especially when John is around. They are genuine and cute!
What if the doctor messed up and it was a boy?? Will that totally suck ?????
It is a slippery slope–if this becomes more widely done we’re going to find the whole world (not just China and India) with too many men and not enough women.
Exactly ! I come from one of those cultures and let me tell you there rate of boys being born vs. girls is astounding. There are whole villages filled with only boys. Let nature take it’s course. Mind you, I’d hate for a girl to be born into a family that doesn’t want her. The way some girls get treated sickens me. I know many people of my culture that literally cry when a girl is born but have a huge party when a boy is born. Ughh I HATE gender selection. Don’t mess with nature.
I like Chrissy but this is the longest celeb pregnancy ever.
by my estimations Natalie Portman was pregnant for four and a half years, she still holds the record.
Yeah this is even longer than Beyonce and Kim’s pregnancies
Nah, that title belongs to Kate Hudson.
It’s a lost cause to hope that she will ever understand that statements like this are why people attack her on social media. This is a pretty controversial idea, and people are definitely going to have strong reactions.
At this point, she is daring people to disagree with her.
We are at the beginning of our IVF process. I too, am shocked that I could possible pick the sex of my embryos. Because of my advanced maternal age, we will opt for PGS testing on our embryos, if we are lucky to retrieve more than one. That does give me pause since this will most likely be our only shot. My doctor only implants two after the age of 38. It only increases your chances of having twins by about 20%. My fear is what if I implant a boy and a girl, and one doesn’t make it. Will I always mourn the loss of that child? It is tough stuff. I think we are leaning towards not knowing the sex at the time of transfer. However, no judgement towards people that choose the sex, especially if it is to balance your family.
My understanding is that ivf is far more likely to produce viable male embryos than female. Maybe she figured since she had healthy females she better go for it now.
This gives me the icks all over. I only feel comfortable choosing the gender to avoid certain genetic diseases, such as hemophilia, which largely affects boys.
I did IVF, but not genetic testing on the embryos. When I had my daughter 5 years ago, they only did genetic testing on the embryos if their was some genetic disease they were testing for or if someone was doing IVF because of multiple miscarriages and the fetuses were tested and had chromosomal problems. Maybe it’s different now.
But, although this isn’t India or China where males are heavily favored, leading to a generation where the sex ratio is out of whack, I think even a much smaller change from the natural sex ratio might lead to societal issues. I’d also be interested in what the ratio would be in the US if everyone was allowed to select the sex of their child – a shift to more girls, or more boys?
I also find surrogacy icky if the person is doing it to avoid being pregnant. If you have an issue where you can’t carry to term, I’m fine with it, but doing it because you don’t want to mess with your perfect body really grosses me out.
There was an article written a while ago that actually showed that in Western nations (America and Europe), when couples select for sex, they tend to actually pick girls – the opposite of what goes on in the East. The theory behind this is that in the West, women tend to be the primary drivers of IVF, and their preferences drive the process far more – and they tend to prefer their own sex.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/25/magazine/getting-the-girl.html?pagewanted=all
I’m past the whole “gender selection” thing, but here’s what kind of rubs me the wrong way: it tends to be based a lot on gender essentialism. “Oh, I wanted a girl because of that special bond they have.” Or something like that. Chrissy, having a girl will not ensure any kind of “special” relationship between her and her dad. Each kid is an individual. She might be devoted to her mother, she might not get along with her dad, etc. The possibilities are endless. Don’t get your hopes up so much that your daughter will “be” a certain way.
I think some people are bugged by it because gender selection is really something that, by and large, is rooted in bad ideas about sex and gender, and it’s also something that, taken too far, is having awful impacts throughout the world. On the individual level it might be cute and twee and non-offensive, but it’s actually more insidious when you look at it on a closer level.
I am going through my second round of ivf- I tried “naturally” for over a year, tried fertility drugs to boost my ovarian output for 6 months, did 6 round of intrauterine inseminations with fertility drugs (pills and shots), and did a round of ivf that didn’t result in any embryos developing. As I go through the second round, I’ve spent over $70k and two years dealing with infertility. It has affected every part of my life, and the process of conceiving a child has become so medicalized- if I am lucky enough to have embryos this time, I am having them genetically tested. Which means my doctor will know the sex of each embryo. When it comes time to transfer the embryo, I will select the “best” one. And if I have more than 1 “best”, then I will have the option to select gender. It’s not “left up to fate” at this point- if I have more than 1 good embryo, either I or my doctor will be choosing which one to transfer. So why not choose the gender I want?
I have zero problem with it. She couldn’t conceive naturally. They had the embryos of different genders to implant, as that was the only way for her. What is the problem with going ahead and choosing the gender as long as the embryos were viable? I would if it were my first child, because like her, I knew more than anything I wanted a daughter. So if this might be my only shot, and who knows the future, I would have no problem with that, and. would do the same thing
“Now that I have some free time on my hands, maybe she’ll hire me as a night nurse.” Classic!
This cracked me up!
She is an over-sharer and she cares way too much about the opinions of strangers.
Because she cannot exist out of the “spotlight” much like the Kardashians
I’m kind of meh on it here. I understand there’s some very serious problems in other countries where one sex is favored over the other, but here it seems like most people want one of each. She even says that they will try to have a boy later.
Having a girl was probably a good thing, if I’m not mistaken baby boys are more prone to miscarriage and prematurity. The NICU nurses told me that the boys don’t do as well as the girls.
This is a funny comparison BUT I bet 8 out of 10 people would hit that boy or girl ‘button’ on their husbands hip if that is the way it worked! LOL I think it’s great they want a daughter. I think it’s great they are able to have a family thanks to modern medicine. All I know is that little girl will be so loved and that’s all that matters.
The difference is that most people wouldn’t advertise it on social media. She’s baiting people into disagreeing with her so she can cry about being bullied and shamed
I’m glad she talked about it ,I didn’t realize the parents had a choice.I don’t have a problem with it.For the people who claim she is playing God,The same can be said for IVF.They have several embryos,she wanted the first implanted to be a girl. The doctors know the gender of the embryos.I’m sure they are already doing gender selection whether the parents participate in the selection or not.
Sorry not my womb not my business.
They selected the sex, not the gender. And if they think they selected the gender of the child, they potentially are in for a rude awakening as their child’s personality develops…
And this is when I’m reminded that she’s besties with Kim Kardasian.
I fully support her decision to pick the gender and to be public about it. I sort of love the fact that she doesn’t seem to have much of a sensor on her mouth. I did IVF because I was unable to get pregnant on my own. We have so many interventions in our world. Our hand is in many many many processes that used to just be nature’s business. I also don’t think her decision is the same as the gender bias that exists in many Countries. Like with anything if it becomes more mainstream it will have to be regulated, and ethics will have to be considered. But a lot of the ick factor is the newness of how common IVF has become. We have proven over and over and over again that just because people can naturally have children that does not make them even remotely fit to be parents. Anyway it’s a complicated discussion and deserves a lot of thought
Chrissy is someone I’m tired of seeing in the media. She’s everywhere and it’s annoying. She doesn’t understand what it means to be private. Some things we don’t need to know GF. Plus, she worries too much about other people’s opinions. Maybe when she has her daughter, she won’t have time to worry about everything said about her. I love John Legend’s music and I hope for a safe and healthy delivery.
I couldn’t get past leaving the other embryos behind, so adoption. Course, this was in the 90s. Technology is so much better now.
Budget Kardashian– LOL!
Their dog’s name is actually Puddy.
I like Chrissy. I think she’s funny, but that’s only from following her on Instagram. I don’t Twitter, and I don’t watch the tv shows on which she currently appears. But based on her IG and the single episode of her cooking show, I like her.
I couldn’t care less that she did IVF and chose a female embryo. It’s just the way she gassed on about it like she picked a designer baby and life will be sooooo wonderful. I think I sprained my forehead from eye-rolling. She’s beyond tiresome.
If it helps curb overpopulation and unwanted children, I’m all for it. Not that I believe it does do those things, but using a bigger-picture perspective, it has the potential.
We have to live on this planet for an indeterminate amount of time, after all.
Having written that, I got pregnant naturally and did not want to even know the sex of my baby.
The fact that selection is only available to those with certain incomes is where my problem lies.
Chrissy is just beyond annoying to me but it’s their choice on deciding the sex of their child and has nothing at all to do with anyone else’s life.
If anything, I question her always over-sharing her personal information with the public. But to do so is also her decision.
The Chinese have been doing this for many decades and without the benefit of IVF. They favor male children so much over female that they are having a crisis shortage of women.
Gender selection is a very slippery slope. And usually it’s the females that aren’t selected.