From balloons and confetti to literal live alligators, a decade of social media-obsessed parents-to-be have taken gender reveal parties to ever-new and wilder heights. And while the trend is more popular than ever, the woman credited with inventing it has shared an unexpected reveal of her own: she has major regrets.
In a July 25 post that went viral on Facebook, Los Angeles blogger Jenna Karvunidis, who had the first viral gender reveal party back in 2008, admitted that she has mixed feelings about parents placing so much emphasis on pink vs blue?especially since her now-10-year-old daughter, whose cake revealed pink icing all those years ago, currently prefers to wear suits.
“Who cares what gender the baby is" I did at the time because we didn’t live in 2019 and didn’t know what we know now – that assigning focus on gender at birth leaves out so much of their potential and talents that have nothing to do with what’s between their legs,” she wrote. We couldn’t agree more! Check out her full post below:

A weird thing came up on Twitter, so I figured I'd share here. Someone remembered it was me who "invented" the gender…
Posted by High Gloss And Sauce on Thursday, July 25, 2019

In a new interview with Elle, Karvunidis says that the reason she had a gender reveal party for her first child is because she went through several miscarriages.
“Finally, I had a baby that stuck long enough to k...