Emily Ratajkowski joins chorus of stars raising gender-neutral babies
Pregnant model Emily Ratajkowski has revealed why she plans to join the likes of Kate Hudson and Robyn Lawley by raising her baby in a gender-neutral environment.
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Pregnant model Emily Ratajkowski has announced her plans to raise her unborn child in a gender-neutral environment.
In an essay published by US Vogue on Monday, the American actor, 29, said she and her producer husband Sebastian Bear-McClard “won’t know the gender until our child is 18” as they prefer to force “as few gender stereotypes on my child as possible”.
The couple made the controversial decision in an attempt to be “progressive”.
“I don’t like that we force gender-based preconceptions onto people, let alone babies,” she wrote.
“I want to be a parent who allows my child to show themself to me.”
Ratajkowski, who is 20 weeks along in her pregnancy, said she grew up wanting a baby girl but her views on gender have since evolved.
“It occurs to me that as a younger person I’d almost automatically imagined myself having a daughter,” she wrote.
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“I remember playing as a child, holding baby dolls and picturing myself with a future best friend: something like the American Girl doll I owned, who had brown eyes and brown hair to mirror my own features, a smaller version of myself.
“When I bring this thought to my therapist, she explains that this is relatively common.”
Ratajkowski joins a long list of Hollywood stars who are shunning traditional social norms and raising gender-neutral or transgender children.
Actor Kate Hudson is raising her two-year-old daughter Rani with a “genderless” approach.
Model Robyn Lawley is raising her five-year-old daughter Ripley in a gender-neutral environment and admittedly banned her from playing with Barbie dolls.
Academy award-winning actor Charlize Theron announced last year that her eldest child Jackson, 8, was assigned male at birth but is actually a girl.
Singer Pink once spoke about her “very label-less household”, in which her nine-year-old daughter Willow and three-year-old son Jameson are being raised gender-neutral.
Singer Cher’s adult son Chaz Bono previously underwent a female-to-male gender transition.
NBA star Dwayne Wade has spoken openly about his child Zion (now Zaya), who was born a boy, coming out as transgender at the age of 12.
In 2017, Jennifer Lopez made headlines when she used gender-inclusive pronouns “they” and “their” instead of “niece” or “nephew” to refer to her sister’s child Brendan.
