[imagesource: Cass Bird/Vogue]
We’re all familiar with the celebrity pregnancy announcement.
We’re also all familiar with the usual articles written about Emily Ratajkowski and whichever bikini she was sporting in a selfie.
The latter won’t be happening for a while, or at the very least, the tabloids won’t be inappropriately describing her body as they’re prone to do, because she’s pregnant.
(We can look forward to the misogynistic obsession with her post-pregnancy body, but I’ll save that rant for a few months down the line.)
Like most celebs, she announced the upcoming bundle of joy in the media.
In an exclusive with Vogue, she chatted about how she feels, starting with her response to people who ask her about the gender of her baby:
…we won’t know the gender until our child is 18 and that they’ll let us know then. Everyone laughs at this. There is a truth to our line, though, one that hints at possibilities that are much more complex than whatever genitalia our child might be born with: the truth that we ultimately have no idea who—rather than what—is growing inside my belly.
Who will this person be? What kind of person will we become parents to? How will they change our lives and who we are? This is a wondrous and terrifying concept, one that renders us both helpless and humbled.
I approve – no gender reveal party!
On that, actually:
After the couple punctures the balloon and pink or blue confetti cascades down onto them, or the slice of the knife reveals the interior of a cake, dyed a pastel shade, I start to notice a pattern. Often these couples do not embrace immediately.
If blue confetti rains down, the father almost always seems instantly relieved; he walks a few steps away, his eyes wide and his hands behind his head…
Are girls universally terrifying to fathers? And mini-mes so universally appealing?
In addition to the article, which you can read in full here, Ratajkowski created a pregnancy announcement video, which was directed by Lena Dunham (Girls):
Certainly one of the better ones out there.
[source:vogue]
