Victoria Beckham: “a girl would just complete our family”
We recently posted on David Beckham desiring a little girl after seeing pictures of little Suri Cruise. Now Victoria Beckham has spoken out about rumors regarding a possible pregnancy and her desire for a daughter:
"I would love a little girl. Our boys are phenomenal but a girl would just complete our family. But at the moment I take my Pill every morning as now isn’t quite the right time. When you’re in the public eye they expect you to pop one out every year. I mean, Cruz is still so young. One minute they’re saying I’m pregnant, the next I’m too thin to get pregnant. I can’t keep up."
Source: Perez Hilton
Did you and your partner purposely try for one particular gender and if so, why?
- Posted on Sep 10, 06 at 7:39AM
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September 10th, 2006 at 9:00 am
I always knew I would have a boy first. This time we’ve taken a long time to concieve, and so we’ll be happy with whichever comes along
September 10th, 2006 at 10:06 am
Good for Victoria that she isn’t in a rush to have more children much as she would like a big family. She’s right-Cruz is still a baby himself, and she is still in her early 30s, so why rush things?
September 10th, 2006 at 10:40 am
I wish them well and best of luck to their family. But I have to wonder…if they go on to have a fourth child and have another boy, is that child going to see these quotes about their desire for a girl and feel less wanted? The sad thing about voicing their wanting a girl is that the press will have a field day with bad headlines if they have another boy…
September 10th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Believe me, they won’t take any chances with gender… They will do Microsort or PGD… Bot are proven gender selection methods (used with IUI or IVF). 90-100% guaranteed. I know because we did it for a girl. Now we have 3 boys and 1 girl.
September 10th, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Our boys are 9 and 12 — so it’s been a while since we were baby makers — but both were conceived completely naturally. I wasn’t even aware there were procedures currently available to choose the gender. Has anyone else done this? Very interesting.
September 10th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting a particular gender. I’m the only girl out of a family with 5 kids. My mom always wanted 2 daughters so she kept trying, but instead ending up with 3 more boys. And you know what? For all of them, she was upset for like a day but ended up loving them just as much and my younger brothers don’t feel neglected at all.
Also, my own mother was only born so my grandmother could name a child after my great-grandmother, and my mother definitely grew up in a loving environment.
September 10th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
The problem I have with wanting aparticular gender is that it is not supposed to be in our hands. Children are children. If you want a child, be openminded and be thrilled with that you get. If you want a GIRL, adopt from China. My cousin always wanted girls, has two boys and treats them badly while she worships and spoils her 8 month old niece she babysits 3 times a week. The sad part is, the boys are darlings, and the baby girl is a miserable baby.
September 10th, 2006 at 11:31 pm
I have two boys and a girl (who is in the middle)and never had a preference. But if I’d had two or three of the same gender in a row, I would probably like the opposite next, although I wouldn’t get upset.
Kori, I feel sorry for your cousin’s boys, but if she treats her children badly she is just a bad person (no offense itended, honestly). Not everyone would take it out on the children.
And as for it not being meant to be in our hands what gender we have, that’s a matter of opinion and beliefs. Some people are perfectly comfortable with science and it’s advances. I personally have no problem with it, as it doesn’t affect me.
September 11th, 2006 at 1:23 am
“I take my pill every morning” – too much information LOL
September 11th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
Marie I do NOT believe you had the procedure done.
AND
I do not believe in the procedure.
Anyone who gender selects is a loser.
Loving Mama to 4 BOYS!
September 12th, 2006 at 6:48 am
Annie, I am in a medical profession and plan to go to medical school, I am all for scientific advances for health reasons. if we can “weed out” syndromes and disorders to improve quality of life, that is amazing. However playing God for selfish reasons, to CHOOSE your gender, is not ethical to me. Respectfully…Just my opinion, just my values. The gender balance int he world is 49% female to 51% male roughly, not exactly 50/50 but close. I just wonder what will happen if microsort becomes as common in the future as ultrasounds to find out the sex are today. Mother nature picks genders for a reason, we need natural balance in this world.
September 12th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
The population of girls to boys in America though is different. There are more females in the US than males by estimates of upwards of 5 million. (source Geohive.com) I remember learning in a life span development class in college that for example, women who miscarry tend to miscarry boys. I cannot remember the exact reason but something on the order of male babies in utero tend not to be as strong as the females.
But anyway, I like all stats, I have to wonder what factors fall into the statistics of females vs male numbers. True stats show a slightly larger male population in the world than female, but how realistic is that in the “God given sense”. I mean why is the United States have a near 5 million people gap between males and females and China has a gap of like 20 million between males to females. Do these stats take into account many countries who have a “tradition” of wanting boys over girls to carry on the family name? Girls like for example in China tend to get put into orphanages or aborted if mom finds out prior to delievery. Orphanages can’t always provide the best care for these children and so maybe a large section of their girl population dies.
That’s why personally I believe you have to be happy with what God gives you. It seems all across the world one sex is favored over another. America tends to favor girls, China tends to favor boys. Whatever happened to just being happy with whatever sex it may be? A baby is a baby regardless.
September 12th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
“MARNIE” –
Please re-read the posts. Isabelle said she had the procedure, NOT me. And please don’t use my email as your email address, as you did for your post. Thank you.
btw, I believe your post is against the rules here — you insulted a person by calling them a loser for doing something you don’t agree with.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I agree with Molly. Many Americans tend to favor girls more, while China tends to favor boys. And to be honest, many people I know, including celebrities, rather have a girl than a boy here in the U.S. This gender thing is so bothersome sometimes. Why do people have gender preferences? Can’t they be happy with what they have, whether it’s a boy or girl? And according to Kori’s statement about how her cousin worships her niece, and doesn’t treat her sons well, I have seen things like that elsewhere. A person I know for example worships her 7 year old daughter like some goddess while she’s quite harsh on her son, and he’s only 4!. Her son’s well behaved and well mannered while her daughter’s a little demanding since she gets more attention than her little brother. Seems like it’s much easier to discipline boys than it is with girls. With girls, you kind of get that “princess syndrome” since there’s lots of more things you can with girls than boys like go shopping with them, dress them in these girly clothes, and give them makeovers, where as with boys, you can only play sports with them as a hobby.